Tag: decision-making
All the articles with the tag "decision-making".
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Non-functional requirements are the architecture
Two teams build the same feature list and ship completely different systems — because the non-functional requirements, not the features, decide the shape.
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I was an enterprise architecture sceptic
I wrote off enterprise architecture as big-company ceremony — until a greenfield rewrite with no governance changed my mind, and not the way vendors would like.
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The last responsible moment
Deferring a decision isn't dodging it. The last responsible moment is the point past which waiting costs you an option — so decide then, not before, not after.
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The cost of premature abstraction
Taught that duplication is the enemy, we abstract too early. But the wrong abstraction costs more than the duplication it replaced — and is far harder to undo.