You can’t get an ought from an is. This famous concept from the great Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711–76) has interesting implications for Enterprise Architects. Hume observed that people seem to derive what ought to be done by citing facts about what is, yet logically there seems to be a gap, and there must be…
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decommissioning stinks – a story
Most of us have had exposure to the remains of some system replacement that didn’t quite finish decommissioning the legacy system. Perhaps it still performs some current functions, or is simply used to access historic or run off data. We often feel this is problematic and the result of a lack of commitment, but is…