If Churchill had been an Enterprise Architect then maybe the speech below had been a reality… The problems raged on. The Architect told the leaders, “I have, myself, full confidence that if we all do our duty, if nothing is neglected, and…
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do,…
“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact,…
The only real difference between an business supervised by an entrepenur and a manager is that the entrepenur is driven by love and the manager is driven by fear.
In most architecture and project methodologies you are asked to create a communications package, naming stakeholders and activities on how you will address their needs. Rarely do I find that they try to secure that communications will go smooth. These are some…
One need to ask if what is depicted in the view below is architecture or if it is solution design. Figure 8 BusinessFunctionView The picture is taken from the ArchiSurance Case Study by the Open Group which has released it under a…
The essential problem with enterprise architecture is that it is an exercise that rewards a dull, methodical approach. The margins are so tight that doing it with passion will certainly end in a mess.
In any major change you deliberately want to challenge positions and point of views. There is no use in attempting a shift from high risk hero driven development to low risk method driven development ala Model driven Enterprise Architecture if you don’t…
The key issue with Archimate and most other frameworks is that the Z factor is uncontrolled. What this means is that you will have architects creating views that are unaligned and unintegratable on any wider scale. So on the surface it looks…
The mistake of the many Raising a host of all employees and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the Enterprise. The daily expenditure will easily surmount that which can ever be…
The six ways There are six ways of investigating by process. The first is to go by strategic intent; the second is to follow the business models; the third is to go by information need; the fourth is to trace through application…
The art of architecture recognizes nine varieties of situations: When an architect is fighting within his own profession, it is a dispersive situation. When an architect has investigated a problem, but to no great depth, it is a facile situation. When an…