Frederick Vanbrabant

Got a new sportswatch (only for running). Just did my first run yesterday. Was a nightmare. Super slow and I was amazed how long that 5KM run took.

The watch was still in miles.

Who are these people!?!

Systems Thinking in Enterprise Architecture Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

A few days ago I wrote about system think in Enterprise architecture. An important tool in strategy and architecture itself.

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#systemsthinking
#strategy
#enterprisearchitecture

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"Can you make the architecture diagram a bit more complex? The project is complex and it would be nice if the diagrams reflected that."

The middle ground between canonical models and data mesh Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Yesterday I published a new article about Data Mesh and CDN's. frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-02... #enterprisearchitecture #DDD #datamesh

Architectural debt is not just technical debt Frederick's delirious rants

Architectural debt spans three layers: technical (integration patterns, vendor lock-in), business (ownership,), and strategy (misaligned capability maps).
The strategy layer is the most dangerous - bad assumptions there can derail 3-5 year plans.
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What the hell is happening in the US ...

It’s for the green screen right? That’s my running theory

Zijn motivatiebrieven niet altijd een waste of time?

What's the point even in discussing things on LinkedIn? 90% of the comments are AI generated and 10% are just company worship

Zit je op BlueSky en Mastodon? If so, zie je grote verschillen tussen de twee?

Teams Outlast Projects Frederick's delirious rants

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Today is new joiners day at the office. These days rank among the best for sneaking in and scooping up some reception food

Ah users are now always green ;)

I've found out that that barrier of quality is mostly in the minds of the author.

The Real Ask When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually n...

One of the most important lessons I've learned in Enterprise Architecture, "the question behind the question"

#EnterpriseArchitecture

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The cost of ownership of a 1000 applications One of the first things you want to know when you start you cost reduction, is actually knowing what your things costs. This is weirdly something not a lot of companies actually know. Today we will ta...

One of the first things you want to know when you start your cost reduction is actually knowing what your things cost.

#enterprise-architecture #it-management #CTO

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Choosing where to spend my team’s effort It's the start of a new fiscal year and that's always a time to look forward and define strategy: What are we gonna work on these next months. I've always handled the same structure in defining my str...

Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s environment, I thought I’d share it. #enterprisearchitecture #itmgmt #strategy

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Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.

I'm not really an "AI person", but it's still valid to point out that an LLM is not exactly the right tool for the job here.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

I'm happy there is something new happening in UI land, we've been on the flat design for so long now and it always felt very lazy to me. I do think that the new way Android is going is a lot more useable than the Apple route. Guess the future will tell.

And managing your own files I assume

Do you know a platform that has it? As far as I know they all seem to be structured in the same way

Business Capabilities, how I like to use them So we should probably start with this right? Business capabilities (further in this article referred to as capabilities) are the backbone of enterprise architecture. They are also, sadly, one of the m...

@johncutle.fish hey John, at @dddeu.bsky.social we briefly talked about business capabilities. Wish we could have talked more about them. Some time ago, I wrote down my thoughts about them here: frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2024-07...

What's the role of software in an organization the main role software has in an organization is to facilitate processes. My friend argued that this is a strict and maybe overly theoretical view of software in the workplace. He might be right, but ...

Last week, over drinks, a friend and I debated the role of software in an organization.

#enterpriseArchitecture #BizArch #software #solutionarchitecture #itmanagement

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People, Processes, Technology and Information In this post, I will argue that you can't work towards a goal without **information**. After all, all of the connections in people, processes and technologies have one thing in common: there is inform...

Enterprise Architects often talk about PPT, I always talk about PPTI. Wrote a post to explain why I think Information is just as important #enterprisearchitect #ppt #archimate #bizarch frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-05...

Thanks, Chatgpt, but I'll take my music theory lessons elsewhere.

Japan is pretty cool