Frederick Vanbrabant

Frederick Vanbrabant

@maybefrederick.bsky.social

💻 Head of Architecture Deloitte Belgium 📷 Hobby photographer 📓 Blog at https://frederickvanbrabant.com #enterprisearchitecture

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i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

Frederick Vanbrabant
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After reading a discussion yesterday from @heiglandreas@phpc.social about #Laravel and how they now promote themselves as an agentic framework, I've started looking up other frameworks. None of them promote them like that. Even #bun that's bought by Antropic, doesn't promote themselves like that.

Frederick Vanbrabant
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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 frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-06...

frederickvanbrabant.comThe cost of ownership of a 1000 applicationsOne 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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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 frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-06...

frederickvanbrabant.comChoosing where to spend my team’s effortIt'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...
Frederick Vanbrabant
@maybefrederick.bsky.social

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.

Frederick Vanbrabant
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@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...

frederickvanbrabant.comBusiness Capabilities, how I like to use themSo 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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Last week, over drinks, a friend and I debated the role of software in an organization. #enterpriseArchitecture #BizArch #software #solutionarchitecture #itmanagement frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-05...

frederickvanbrabant.comWhat's the role of software in an organizationthe main role software has in an organization is to facilitate processes. My friend argued that this is a strict and maybe overly theoretical view of software in the workplace. He might be right, but ...
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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...

frederickvanbrabant.comPeople, Processes, Technology and InformationIn 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...
Frederick Vanbrabant
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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 frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-04...

frederickvanbrabant.comAvoiding vague hand waving: What is Enterprise ArchitectureOne 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...
Frederick Vanbrabant
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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

frederickvanbrabant.comWhat's the use of Archimate anywayIs 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.
Frederick Vanbrabant
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This weekend, I wrote about running an enterprise architecture office like a skunkworks project. frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-03... #EnterpriseArchitecture #SkunkWorks #Innovation #TechLeadership #AgileArchitecture

frederickvanbrabant.comEnterprise architectural skunk worksMost big organizations I've worked with are more akin to an ecosystem of multiple smaller companies. These smaller companies all share the same umbrella of the bigger total but internally compete for ...
Frederick Vanbrabant
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This weekend I talked about how to scope out your enterprise architecture frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2025-02... #EnterpriseArchitecture #EA #DigitalTransformation #TechnologyStrategy

frederickvanbrabant.comMapping out an organization is a massive taskA big part of enterprise architecture is keeping your architecture model up to date. Without this model, it's impossible to do your real job in advising projects, strategy and general company awarenes...
Frederick Vanbrabant
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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

frederickvanbrabant.comModeling data and information in an organizationThe 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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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

Frederick Vanbrabant
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One of the nice benefits of working at Deloitte is that you get the chance of taking part of the internal trainings they do that might be out of your domain. Currently I'm doing a Tax and financial modeling training. It's genuinely extremely interesting

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