I seem to be on a roll writing about my impressions of Forrester Research articles recently. I meant to dig into a blog post by Forrester Research analyst Henry Peyret from December, 2010 earlier. Henry explains the approach taken to gather information…
Gene Leganza (@gleganza) VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Inc discusses and presents on Technology Trends. Gene used the following criteria (Impact, Newness, Complexity) to help describe the trends. In Oct 2010, Gene wrote about the Top 15 Technology Trends on his Forrester…
After my original post about Toyota’s A3 Process, I received several tweets and comments about the use of the A3 Process in organizations. Redge posted a great comment: Having worked in the automotive industry and as a supplier to Toyota, I can…
Joe McKendrick (@joemckendrick) wrote about Lean IT on ZDNet on Dec 27, 2010 titled Eight steps to achieve lean IT. In his set of steps, Joe mentioned the Toyota A3 Report approach to looking at problems and A3 Thinking. He refers…
My rant on “Are we the reason it is so hard to express EA’s value?” last week restarted the ongoing debate about what EA is and should be doing. Others posted their comments and feedback via Twitter. The consensus was in line…
I was on a biweekly EA2010 conference call today and got pretty frustrated with the discussion. There are some really amazing people like Brenda Michelson and Aleks Buterman on the call that get it and recognize that the value of Enterprise Architecture…
Over the past month, I hit a couple of career milestones. On August 31, 2010, I completed my 18th year of service at British Columbia Institute of Technology. On Sept 4, 2010, I completed 3 years as the Manager, Business Application Services…
I just saw a post by Adrian Grigoriu responding to Gartner’s Philip Allega’s post Applying EA to Your Life . Within the post about how EA might be able to help plan our lives, Philip then brings up an regular EA debate…
Todd Biske posted a summary of a conversation he had with Mike Rollings, Brenda Michelson, Chris Bird and others. They were discussing the future of Enterprise Architecture. A theme that emerged from their talks focused on whether your practice is defined by…
Since I completed both the UBC Sauder School of Business – Certificate in Management Excellence and the Carnegie Mellon Institute of Software Research International – Certified Enterprise Architect program, I have been looking to take the next step in my education. Here…
My friend Nick Malik wrote a post - Zachman’s Fatal Flaw: No Row for Customer. Here is my response … Do I believe that Zachman’s Framework is fatally flawed? No. It all depends on your perspective and that to me is defined…
The Center for the Advocacy of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) published a collaborative work called the Enterprise Architecture Professional Practice Guide (EA PPG). This is the first draft abstract for the EA PPG. I joined the CAEAP when it was formed…