Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Architects produce many types of models. One useful distinction is between AS-IS models (which describe the current situation) and TO-BE models (which describe some projected future situation). If we can compare an AS-IS model with a TO-BE model, we ca…
What’s the difference between requirements and constraints? How do we identify and use them in change-projects and in enterprise architectures? This is a query that came up in my web-stats yesterday – and it should (I hope…) be one that I…
Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect. Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary …read more
An architect looks at a valley and imagines a viaduct. She then describes this imaginary viaduct in great detail. As a result of her imagination, and the efforts of many engineers and other workers, when we visit the valley ten years later we too can s…
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Accurate. In plain English. Engaging presentation. You don’t need to work in information technology to understand it.
Warning: The visuals in this animation suggest that modularity is the way to reduce combinatorial co…
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Accurate. In plain English. Engaging presentation. You don’t need to work in information technology to understand it.
Warning: The visuals in this animation suggest that modularity is the way to reduce combinatorial complexity. Not necessarily. See the lego fallacy.
I ran across a really good high-level Enterprise Architecture video last week and thought I would share. It’s brought to us by ArchimateMusings blog. This looks to be a video that his company created to articulate EA’s overall function and…
Within a 15 minute walk of Camp Nou (home of FC Barcelona), The Open Group Conference “kicked off” on Monday morning with some excellent plenary presentations. You can see most of these Big Data presentations for yourself on The Open Group’s Livestream page. Continue reading →
Here is a LinkedIn discussion on “What would make TOGAF more usable?” that prompted my post here. A framework, according to whatis.com, is “a real or conceptual structure intended to serve as a support or guide for the building of something…
The Open Group sat down with Dr. Robert Winter, professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, to talk about Enterprise Architecture management and transformation management following his keynote at the Barcelona Conference on Tuesday, October 23. Continue reading →
“There is no significant meaning to the arrows between the boxes”. Ain’t that the truth! Perhaps more readily than any other profession IT architects reach for the whiteboard marker to try and explain themselves. It’s amazing given our limited symbolic repertoire, typically boxes, arrows, clouds and stick men that we so often fail to drive […]
In the last days a great blog post of Gerben Wierda was brought via various channels to my attention which contains a very good video about Enterprise (IT) Architecture: I do not want to add much to the tribal war between Enterprise Architecture and En…