Essays on enterprise architecture, integrations, data and applied AI, written from practice. RSS
Twelve articles on digital urbanization, a way to govern a company's digital world as a territory inhabited by people, applications, data, and AI agents. The ideas come from building Grupo Diveco's corporate platform, and the framework's six propositions still await empirical validation.
[Series · Strategy · 12 essays]
A data unit built a capable analytics tool, and the organization did not trust its numbers. This series follows how that credibility gap closed through behavioral design, told from engineering, criminology and career strategy.
[Series · Business · 4 essays]
[Essay · Digital urbanization 12/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Framework validation applied to my own preprint on digital urbanization. The rival explanations, three tests with their failure conditions, the known limitations and the four-stage route for putting DWU to the test.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 11/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
A ten-question canvas for an evidence-based enterprise architecture assessment that covers the seven DWU systems plus habitability, informal settlements and urban debt. It includes a filled-in fictional case and a way to test whether the canvas actually helps.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 10/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
What urban debt is, how it extends technical debt to the enterprise's digital territory, and why the digital urbanization framework treats legacy modernization as renewal block by block, with governance exceptions that expire.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 9/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Digital urbanization approaches AI agent governance through civic identity. Verifiable AI agent identity, an accountable sponsor, jurisdiction, bounded delegation and revocation, worked through the civic profile of a purchasing agent in the fictional Northstar case.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 8/12 · 17 min · Sep 25, 2026]
What digital habitability means, why a technically coherent environment can still stall platform adoption and wear down developer experience, how its absence feeds shadow IT, and which candidate indicators could measure it without fooling yourself.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 7/12 · 17 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Shadow IT and unsanctioned AI read as informal digital settlements. How to map them, name the capability each one serves, weigh its value against its risk, and decide whether to recognize, integrate, relocate or retire it.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 6/12 · 17 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Data governance in the digital urbanization framework. Operational records, data products, lineage, semantics and vector indexes form a subsurface that needs an owner, a map and controlled connections, and the three margins of the fictional Northstar case show why.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 5/12 · 17 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Why unregulated point-to-point integration behaves like an improvised road across private property, and how digital urbanization proposes moving priority flows to APIs, events and contracts with an owner, a version and registered consumers.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 4/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Which shared services an enterprise should treat as public infrastructure before it multiplies applications and agents, what breaks when identity, audit and notifications are duplicated, and how to measure a platform engineering team.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 3/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
How to use a business capability map to zone the enterprise into territory, districts and buildings, with an explicit registry that records each application's owner and lifecycle status, following the digital urbanization framework.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 2/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Information-system urbanization, a French-language architecture tradition, already separated stable capabilities from changing implementations. What it proposed, what it leaves out once cloud platforms, data products and AI agents arrive, and how Digital-World Urbanization extends it.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 1/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Enterprise architecture tends to govern a company's digital environment as an application portfolio. DWU proposes reading it as a territory inhabited by people, systems and AI agents, organized into seven interdependent systems.