Asif Gill Blogs

Adaptive or agile architecture design [artifact] and practice [activity of design] involves storytelling. In this post, I would like to share some of my experience from recent projects in the form of a following Architecture Storytelling Viewpoint template. Context : Policies, Principles, Strategies, Environment, Business Model, Operating Model ... 1. [Stakeholders] It starts with subject or area of interest [ Who ]  i.e. Person, Role, Organisation, Department, Division. Here focus is on identifying, understanding, prioritizing, estimating, planing and classifying the [Who] stakeholders (the most important part of the architecture) with certain area of interest (e.g. Marketing, Sales, People and Culture, Finance). You can design stakeholders map and empathy map to elicit "Who" for a certain area of interest . This is really about stakeholders or customer-centric architecture as opposed to an IT centric architecture. AS a Stakeholder..... 2. [Concerns] This is a

Leadership is hard and success is even harder. It depends how you define leadership and success for your personal context? Over a period of last two decades , I worked with and mentored by a number of intelligent people. This post shares my personal reflections and learnings  so far in 5 principles, which are part of my persona and still evolving. Personalisation  Persuasiveness  Patience  Persistence Progressive Personalisation  Personal respect, recognition and  individualisation of interactions or dealings or transactions rather being rude or vague or too generic. Persuasiveness Being able to influence through reasoning and demonstration rather imposing or enforcing decisions. Patience Being able to tolerate, listen and facilitate rather being harsh and unhelpful while others are catching up. Persistence Being able to stay calm, steadfast and steady the ship in response to difficult or challenging situation.Roll the ball everyday. Progressive Being able to brea