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Frederick Vanbrabant
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💻 Head of Architecture Deloitte Belgium
📷 Hobby photographer
📓 Blog at https://frederickvanbrabant.com
#enterprisearchitecture
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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Architectural debt is not just technical debt
Frederick's delirious rants
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November 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today is new joiners day at the office. These days rank among the best for sneaking in and scooping up some reception food
September 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
One of the most important lessons I've learned in Enterprise Architecture, "the question behind the question"

#EnterpriseArchitecture

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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...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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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...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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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...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reposted by Frederick Vanbrabant
Teach a robot to fish and soon you won't remember how to.
June 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Frederick Vanbrabant
sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes
June 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
@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...
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...
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June 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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...
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...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Thanks, Chatgpt, but I'll take my music theory lessons elsewhere.
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Japan is pretty cool
April 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The vagueness of the terminology is really an issue in the field of architecture. Even among architects themselves, so here is my take. #enterprisearchitecture #bizarch #solutionarchitecture #itmanagement

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Avoiding vague hand waving: What is Enterprise Architecture
One of the most confusing things about architecture is the vagueness of the naming that surrounds it. Not only for non architects that often don't really know in detail what all the different discipli...
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April 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The real title was going to be “Business strategy is like a lizard: It leaves behind its tail while it grows a new one,” but that was just too long. #strategy #enterpriseArchitecture #togaf frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-04...
Business strategy is like a lizard
Well the real title was going to be 'business strategy is like a lizard, it leaves behind it's tail while it grows a new one' but that was just too long.
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April 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I discovered a new podcast called The Enterprise Architecture Experience. In it, Svyatoslav Kotusev was interviewed, they discussed the uses of Archimate. The comments really resonated with me, so I wrote a post about them. frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-3-... #EnterpriseArchitecture #archimate
What's the use of Archimate anyway
Is Archimate an effective enterprise architecture tool, or just an ivory tower language? Inspired by a podcast with Svyatoslav Kotusev, I dive into its usability, challenges, and why I still use it.
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March 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I’ve just completed my weekend project, and it's not even 5 pm yet! www.groundcntrl.info Ground Cntrl is a tracker for live data from the ISS. #space #internationalspacestation #nasa
MISSION CONTROL: HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT SYSTEMSGROUND CONTROL
GROUND CONTROL: LIVE ISS DATA FEED
www.groundcntrl.info
February 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’ve bought what I swore never to buy, a printer
February 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I've been thinking a lot about how you can organise data and information in an organization. Decided to write it down and share it with you: frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-02... #architecture #enteprisearchitecture #data
Modeling data and information in an organization
The last weeks I've been focusing a lot on the data and information models in architecture. Organizations have so much data flowing around that it's hard to effectively map it all out. That's a shame ...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Frederick Vanbrabant
I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY

FINALLY we can all agree on when it's polite to TYPE IN CAPS!

whenever anyone running the client presses caps lock it presses it for everyone

download the client and see the current caps lock status at globalcapslock.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I’ve recently became very into “walking tour video’s” and none of my friend know what I’m talking about. So let me also share it with you: youtu.be/Ul9SoyjZDG0?...
Walking in the Rain, Japanese Countryside village Nakasendo Nature Walk, Rain and City Sounds
YouTube video by Journey Memoirs
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February 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM