DBJ Method Knowledge Base

The Linkedin Post that started the idea. Knowledge Preservation Technical Debt is Business Value imprisoned in the Iceberg of Legacy Technology. Break that Iceberg and free your business value. Refactoring is very wide and slow circle of pain, always leading back to the beginning. BPT Domains are regions of gravitational pull for organization roles Business roles are puled to the Business Domain BA roles gravitate around the Products Domain Engineers and DevOps fly above the Technology Domain How is Knowledge Liberated The Workflow of Knowledge Liberation ...

Ensuring that velocity does not outpace direction Perhaps a very real and dangerous friction point in the current evolution of software development. If it appears that Business Analysts (BAs) are absent from the world of AI, Large Language Models, and autonomous agents, it is not because they are obsolete. Rather, it is because the current hype cycle “Agentic Avalanche,” has temporarily blinded many to the distinction between building the thing right and building the right thing. ...

WARNING This page is not light on TOGAF. What is the intent of this page. Business says what it wants, technology builds it, and this page is the map showing that split plus the EA layer that keeps the two sides honest: no duplicated ownership, no orphaned systems, nothing built that nobody asked for. Business & Technology Landscape IMPORTANT The key principle: business declares the product, technology implements it. EA ensures that chain is intact, traceable, and free of drift in both directions. The Model This model fulfils the obligation to map the organization info-space primary division into three regions. ...

IMPORTANT Update. Here is the newer (2026APR22) DORA AI ROI report. Accidentally very much in tune with the whole philosophy of DBJ.METHOD. AI ROI Calculator is interesting but perhaps too crude to fit any but the most generic examples. And. It assumes healthy business to start with. TIP We have downloaded and stored that pdf for you. DORA ROI AI 2026APR DORA AI Capabilities Model DORA’s primary audience is Software Development Organizations. We have repurposed its core to be used as part of DBJ AI usage guidance. ...

ISO 27001 is not sufficient for full GDPR compliance because it focuses on information security management (the CIA triad) rather than the legal, data privacy rights mandated by GDPR. While ISO 27001 provides a robust framework for technical safeguards and risk management, it lacks GDPR-specific requirements like consent management, data subject access requests (DSARs), and strict legal bases for processing. ...

ITIL and TOGAF Audience: Enterprise Architecture Practice Purpose: Establish ITIL as the benchmarking and standards measurement framework for IT operations; clarify its boundary with TOGAF Framework Boundary Clarification Concern Framework Scope Architecture design and transformation TOGAF / ADM How to change IT service quality and operational benchmarking ITIL How well you run IMPORTANT TOGAF governs the state transition. ITIL measures operational fitness of the current and target states. They are complementary, not competing. EA practice retains TOGAF for architecture governance; ITIL is adopted for IT landscape standards auditing and benchmarking. What ITIL Provides ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is a globally recognised framework for IT Service Management (ITSM). The current version, ITIL 4, is structured around the Service Value System (SVS) — a model that ensures all components of an organisation work together to create value through IT-enabled services. ...

Pattern: New System → Agents → MCP Servers → Legacy Knowledge The diagram describes a clean integration architecture for connecting new AI-enabled systems to existing enterprise knowledge. Agents are the central orchestration node. The New System may reach them directly — for deterministic, rule-based, or high-volume operations — or via LLMs, where natural language interpretation or dynamic reasoning is required. The choice of path is made by the New System, not by the LLM. ...

Do not succumb to anthropomorphized “AI” terminology Preserve the organization’s sanity in presence of relentless AI hype. AI Antropomorphia never sleeps. NOTE I found this piece by Emily Bender and Nanna Inie regarding the pervasive issue of anthropomorphizing “AI” terminology. Given DBJ Method focus on deterministic, data-driven systems, I thought this was worth remembering, and perhaps using for sane every day communication. They argue the current industry jargon masks the reality of the tools, and they propose a more precise, functional vocabulary to keep engineering and policy discussions grounded. ...

The BPT loop is not free-for-all, first comes first served. Different roles are assigned to different segments. That fact defines jurisdiction — the boundary within which a role operates, decides, and is accountable. ...

The classification and an optional declaration The DBJ Taxonomy is a single tree. The top level is an ordered list of categories: Conceptual, Logical, Physical, Implementation. Below it sit the capabilities. Every item has exactly one place in that tree, and the place is its stable ID. Link To the Core That is the whole core. It is deliberately small, and nothing in it is optional. Those names are the keywords. ...