Making handovers work

In the lifecycle of IT projects, transitions in leadership pose a significant threat to continuity, knowledge retention, and stakeholder alignment. Despite this, most organizations treat handovers as informal, ad hoc events.

Reading time 4 min.
Nerdery
From reporting tool to strategic engine

How aligning strategy, transformation, and portfolio management helps organizations move from doing the right things to doing things right.

Reading time 4 min.
Nerdery
Principles without governance are just PowerPoint poetry

Are you a PowerPoint Poet? You know – the kind who writes beautiful architecture principles in elegant slides, perfect fonts, inspiring colors and then never looks at them again.

Reading time 2 min.
Little Learning
Hybrid meetings: The illusion of inclusion

Hybrid meetings promise flexibility, inclusion, and the best of both worlds. But in practice, they often deliver the opposite.

Reading time 3 min.
Unpopular Opinion
Storytelling as an enterprise architecture tool

Enterprise Architects operate in the sweet spot between business and technology, strategy and execution. And as the “sweet spot” refers to, it involves a lot of people. With a lot of different perspectives, interests and professional languages.

Reading time 3 min.
Little Learning
Let’s talk about the 8-minute call

The idea of the “8-minute call” is making the rounds on LinkedIn. The concept is simple and catchy: a short, friendly call – just eight minutes – can reduce loneliness, lift moods, and maybe even prevent depression. It sounds great. But does it hold up?

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Making enterprise architecture matter in modern organizations

Enterprise architects are losing ground. Once seen as stewards of long-term direction, they now risk irrelevance as organizations shift to agile, product-led, and platform-based models.

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Nerdery
The secret drivers of change nobody talks about

Ask ten people what an Enterprise Architect does, and you’ll get twelve different answers. The reality? Enterprise Architects are the undercover drivers of change in modern organizations – without fancy uniforms!

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Little Learning
Smarte ord, dumme samtaler

Du kender det sikkert. Inden dagens femte møde rundes af, foreslår projektlederen, at I lige tager en touch base i morgen tidlig, hvor I kan circle back til det møde, I lige har haft. Det lyder jo smart, men der er ikke rigtig nogen, som ved, hvad projektlederen mener.

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Unpopular Opinion
Beyond the hype of transformation

Transformation has become a buzzword used all too frequently by business leaders, project managers, and consultants alike. And the shorter the transformation period, the better it is.

Reading time 5 min.
Little Learning
The duality of business growth and technical complexity

In the fast-paced world of high-demand industries and scale-ups, rapid business growth is the norm. However, amidst this rapid expansion, a subtle yet significant threat lurks in the shadows: technical complexity.

Reading time 6 min.
Nerdery
Bioenergi, brusebade og bøvlet kommunikation

Kommunikation er svært. En dygtig kommunikatør overvejer sit publikum og deres forståelsesramme., men uanset modtagerens forventede forudsætninger, bør budskabet aldrig kunne tolkes direkte modsat af intentionen.

Reading time 2 min.
Little Learning
Coffee, chaos, and courage

The leadership challenges of 2024 reveal a three-part story: overloaded middle managers, mythical leadership unicorns, and specialists pushed up the pyramid instead of being allowed to grow differently.

Reading time 5 min.
Nerdery
Lost in translation

Adopting new words and terms is part of the evolution of language. And abbreviations, including initialisms and acronyms, are truly everywhere – a natural part of our daily written and spoken interaction with other people.

Reading time 7 min.
Nerdery