Blog by Rob Vens

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

New Year in The Netherlands has always had a problematic association for me because of an experience I had as a small child. My parents and I stayed at my grandmother's for the occasion, and I was put to bed on New Year's Eve being to young to be able to stay up.

At m...

Rob Vens
2020/05/16 16:42 - Comment(s)

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

My gosh, everyone is now writing about Digital Twins! I should be delighted, you'd assume. Someone within Gartner must have resonated with some article of mine from 20 or some years ago…

A few examples:

Rob Vens
2019/05/16 16:37 - Comment(s)

Intro

TOGAF defines its process or method in something called the ADM: the Architecture Development Method.

It is usually represented by the illustration below, with the familiar arrangement of circles around Requirements Management, which has come to be the iconic representation of TOGAF.

TOGAF ADM
The Architec...
Rob Vens
2019/04/27 15:18 - Comment(s)

"Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer."

No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, ...

Rob Vens
2018/01/15 15:28 - Comment(s)

or: the lack of cohesion-awareness.

In The Netherlands we have in our public transport trains the concept of silent compartments (quiet areas). Abundantly signalled in the compartments, the idea is that people are quiet in there, so that you can concentrate on work or just relax. There's often peopl...

Rob Vens
2018/01/09 08:15 - Comment(s)