REAL Talk With Sam Holcman
R.E.A.L. - Realistic, Enabling, Actionable, Logical. Every day we hear jargon and see writing from so-called “experts,” and we don’t know what we should follow and what we should avoid. Published practices aren’t always best practices!
Listen to episodes from Sam Holcman’s radio show, webinars, and podcasts, Real Talk with Sam Holcman. Each episode gets to the bottom of what business executives, managers, practitioners, and staff actually need to create innovative solutions that deliver- no utopia required.
This business podcast provides practice-based insights into business transformation, enterprise architecture, business architecture, organizational transformation, and technology transformation based on real-world practices. We provide you with insights that can provide true value to organizations and individuals that face today’s and tomorrow’s competitive pressures and provide a usable takeaway from each program.
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Episodes
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
There is a growing realization that AI large models are being trained on AI generated content. You may have to read this sentence again! In some circles, this is being called AI generated spam. And more of concern, as we enter the “political season” in the United States, the ease of which political disinformation, with AI generated disinformation will overwhelm legitimate sources. We suggest there is a way to address this and get a real competitive advantage with this technology.
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
We describe the three maturity levels for organizations that write computer software and develop applications. Maturity Level 1 – Make to Order, Maturity Level 2 – Provide from Stock, Maturity Level 3 – Assemble to Order. Maturity Level three is the key to Enterprise Agility.
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
A vendor releases a software update to address a serious flaw in their software. The treat was serious enough to cause the software vendor to rush out a patch. The patch itself had a problem. The response from the vendor? Back out the patch and await another patch! I thought this flaw was serious. It is still there. We need to get this madness stopped.
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Some of the newest software is being developed for electric vehicles charging stations. Guess what? Hackers are having a field day. What is the reaction of the government and industry? Continuing the whack-a-mole approach to after the fact security. The madness must stop. Just a bit of root cause analysis shows us the pathway.
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
You hear numerous phrases like “minimal viable”, “just enough”, and terms like this. Yet, the implementations tend to default to massive, costly, and lengthy “final solutions”. Let us think in an opposite manner. Not what is minimal, but what is needed for a particular purpose. It begins with Architecture, more specifically Federated Architecture. This concept is introduced in this podcast, and elaborated in a broadcast titled Federated Architecture.
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
We review some eye-opening statistics on the incredible increases in computer hardware advancements in processing capacity and relate that to the very different productivity and effectiveness of using this capacity and today's software development practices. It is time for a true assessment of what best practices are in software development.
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Confirmation Bias is defined as the tendency to attribute more weight than we should to information or solutions that are consistent with our beliefs. The technology industry has seen this in cloud computing, enterprise and business architecture, and numerous other areas. Unfortunately, the ramifications of an unoptimized solution do not show up for some time. We provide some guidance to avoid these very costly mistakes.
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
How do you make decisions on when to do things in-house, offshore, or outsourced? We suggest the optional decision is what is the most direct way to achieve organizational goals and strategies. With simple two-dimensional representation, all stakeholders will be able to see the relationship between the goals that are to be achieved and the personnel, processing power, and data each associated with those goals. From these visuals, sound strategy-driven decisions can be made. A very powerful but simple technique.
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Monday Jul 03, 2023
Enterprise Architecture is a discipline. Enterprise Architect is one Architecture Role. We name the twelve architect roles in an enterprise. These names are associated with The Enterprise FrameworkTM and are mapped into this Framework. Wordy definitions of these roles are not as helpful as the actual understanding of what each of these Roles produce. Please see our website www.ArchitecturesCOE.org, for The Enterprise FrameworkTM and this mapping.
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Two articles were recently published that demonstrate clearly, the Data ownership debate/discussion/concerns that are going to determine where the public internet, search engines, and AI are facing and how these areas will mature very soon. Quite simply, who “owns” the data, and what rights do those data owners have. This seven-minute broadcast is an introduction to this very important topic.