Welcome back to our guest Adrian Kearns! We thought last episode was fruitful enough that we should go another round. Testable strategy, learning how to influence, and more.

A couple of bonus blog posts from Adrian you should definitely read:

How to influence at work: https://morphological.wordpress.com/2024/11/21/how-to-influence-at-work/

Four traps experienced solution architects fall into and how to mitigate them: https://morphological.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/four-traps-experienced-solution-architects-fall-into-and-how-to-mitigate-them/

With your hosts:

• Karl Melrose
• Judi Vernau
• Michael Upton

As part of an occasional series trying to join some dots between information management, information architecture, and other professions, we invited Adrian Kearns to come in and talk about what he does, the kinds of problems architects try and solve, and some of the ways he tries to go about it.

While Michael battles with a touch of the laggy video, we have some good discussion about throwing technology at something that isn't a technology problem, the good ol' Five Whys technique, loose coupling, and more!

With your hosts:

• Karl Melrose
• Judi Vernau
• Michael Upton

A free-ranging* conversation about the value of establishing a library or knowledge base of authoritative information than people want to access and can trust!

We touch on everything from shifting the focus of our practice towards getting people the right info, through Conway's Law and the DMBOK, to the persistent value of knowing what problems we're even trying to solve.

With your hosts:

• Karl Melrose
• Judi Vernau
• Michael Upton

* No, that's not a euphemism for completely without focus!