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How BUSINESS CAPABILITY may be built

Describes a process of bulding Business Capabilities for the Architecture of Business organisation. The Business Capabilities are abilities of the business to deliver a certain result by a given time in a defined execution context. IT and EA are just resources for this delivery.

BUSINESS CAPABILITY and API ECONOMY: beware of a man-trap

The fundamental meaning of business capability can be explained as an ability to do/build/construct/gain/provide/deliver certain business value in the given business context. Microservices and API constitute an API Economy. According to the Amazon’s “AWS Service Terms”, October 16, 2017, it denies real support.while all problems with the data files are always claimed on the API-customer organisation.

Steps of Transition to an Organic Business

The first time published on MAY 27 – JUNE 8, 2018 Understanding the Subject: Part 1 Introduction In our previous articles “The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design” and “Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design” we discussed how an Organic Business organisation looks like from inside. This article aims to explain how to …

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Results of Applying Principles of Organic Business Design

It demonstrates the results of applying Principles of Organic Business Design to the organisation of business. A few of Organic Business Organisation theory definition elements require a new understanding and reinterpretation. A real-world example for one of the retail giants is analysed.

The Major Principles of the Organic Business Design

Dynamics of market changes as well as internal transformation in the organisations are quite high and accelerating. They have reached the degree where the traditional hierarchical business structure (mechanical model) steadily and speedily loses its efficiency and effectiveness. Though known for a long time, the organic business model proves that it is the most adequate for dynamic business transformations.

Five Characteristics of an Organic Business

Little doubt exists that there ought to be a direct connection between the external environment in which a company (or any organisation) operates and its internal makeup. Every optimal organisation is dependent on prevailing dynamics in its external (and to some extent internal) environment. Organically organised business is the most adequate for management in highly dynamic economic and technical environments.

RISKS OF BUILDING SHARED SERVICES IN A “BROWN FIELD”

Shared Service (SS) is not a new concept and we have a lot of publications about this subject. I hope that many would agree that a SS appears differently from the business and technology perspectives. Since every service is valuable to its consumers by the service functionality and outcomes, this is all that is needed …

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SHARED SERVICES IN A NUTSHELL

When recently I moved from banking to the public domain, I found with surprise that UK Government is currently focusing on “#shared #services” (#ShaSer) while this topic had been addressed in banking for a decade, at least, ago. So, what the heck is ShaSer? Wikipedia states, “Shared services is the provision of a service by one …

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Problems in #Microservice #QA and #Solutions

One of the major task of DevOps is a speedy delivery of Microservice into production. The major objective of QA and Testing is to find as many bugs as possible. Fixing these bugs slows down the delivery. The article describes this conflict in details, outlines problems in testing articulated by Mr Martin Fowler, proposes additional tests and explains how to improve quality of the released Microservices.

Split and Join of #Functional and #Informational #Microservices

Article defines Functional Microservices using gRPC interface versus Informational Microservices accessible via RESTful interface. The Functional Microservices are validated against distortionless criteria. The code example of Interface definition for Functional Microservice is provided together with options allowing passing data together with function invocation.