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On one particular programme the question arose whether to create the “Enterprise Architecture” or the “Requirements” first has been a matter of great debate. On the one hand, the organisation in question did not have an Architecture and yet the organis…
On one particular programme the question arose whether to create the “Enterprise Architecture” or the “Requirements” first has been a matter of great debate. On the one hand, the organisation in question did not have an Architecture and yet the organis…
How do we make sense of a context? How can we make sense in a disciplined way, without the discipline itself getting in the way? This is a follow-up to the previous post ‘Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor‘, to provide a bit…
It is often assumed the enterprise architecture function includes planning and strategy. While this may be the case in practice, given the specifics of a job description, in theory, at least, they are separate disciplines. The delinea…
Beliefs are powerful. Sometimes, to achieve something, all we need is to hold on to our beliefs. Then there are times when we can’t get where we want to be, unless our beliefs are seriously shaken and eventually changed. Beliefs can influence our capabilities. And the evidence of our capabilities can change our beliefs. Let’s […]
#entarch #bizarch #viewpoints In a previous post, I looked at the five viewpoints of business architecture according to the OMG. In this post, I shall look at the architectural modelling viewpoints indicated in TOGAF 9.1. (Section 8.2). In TOGAF, these…