I recently read the book, IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy by Bruce Sinclair. One of the early chapters in the book looks at business modelling. Sinclair writes about the five types of business models, starting with the “Product …

Over the years, I’ve been part of the design/architecture process for countless technology engagements. Sometimes as the lead architect, sometimes as a reviewer and sometimes in the early discovery phase. Something that still surprises me is how frequently non-functional requirements are not given enough consideration. Ensuring that both …

Constraints are often seen as the enemy of designers, architects and engineers. It’s clearly the case that the number of potential solutions to a problem has to decrease with each additional design constraint. However, just because the number of potential solutions goes down, it does not mean than the …