The Troux Worldwide Conference is returning to Austin, Texas on March 19-20, 2013. If you are a Troux customer, partner, or actively involved in Enterprise Architecture (EA) or Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), this is your opportunity to enjoy peer networking and joint…
I had had the pleasure of being on a panel of Enterprise Architecture (EA) experts at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach, California. We were assembled to discuss complex trends such as big data, Cloud Computing, security, and overall IT transformation…
As I was doing some market research for my EA's competency driven strategy I ran across an interesting article from late 2012 that validates the importance of a well educated, fully rounded and even certified Enterprise Architect. The article, "23 IT Certifications…
I've only heard this one a few times but since this myth was recently referenced in one of the comments of the post, "TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete and Overly Complex" I thought it would be good to elevate it up to…
Today @Dana_Gardner posted on twitter The Open Group Panel discussion on Big Data's Big Impact on Enterprise IT. It worth a watch as it gave a good primer on general concerns in the industry. My question to the panel got a cut due to a…
The new issue of Architecture and Governance Magazine is out. This issues is centered around the Business Architecture practice with elements of Information Architecture. It's tiled, "Business Architecture: The Blueprint for Success?" I was fortunate enough to be included in this edition.…
In this post in the TOGAF demystification series I will talk about how well or not so well TOGAF plays with other frameworks in the industry. In my last post this topic was brought up and I see it on the LinkedIn…
For the second post in the TOGAF Demystification series, let's tackle the common topic of TOGAF to other frameworks. Over the years I've heard the debates between passionate EA's and seen the seemingly endless posts on LinkedIn and blogs on this…
Dave Gray posted on his blog that he has created a tool to help understand corporate cultures. This looks very interesting… I could see lots of uses for this tool as an Enterprise Architect. The typical stakeholder management only gets you so far,…
Do I have your attention now? Given this is the first post of the series about the myths, misconceptions, fiction and even some facts behind TOGAF I want to be open and honest about my affiliation with the Open Group. I do…
Dell has just become one of the latest members to join The Open Group here in 2013. Dell joins as a Gold member along side many other high tech companies such as Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft to advance the architecture…
A few weeks back I sat in on a TOGAF 9.1 training course that I had my team ramp up on. This training was two fold, up-level the knowledge of enterprise architecture team on EA methods and it also served as a…