Posts by: Ming Fai

EA Heuristic #3: Talk to more blind men to know the elephant

(this article is part of the series "12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting")photo credit: Murilo Morais Enterprises are like often like elephants and the enterprises’ employees and stakeholders are like blind men in the classic story; they are each touching a different part of…

• May 10, 2012
• Ming Fai

EA Heuristic #2: Guess, Validate, Iterate: Time-bound architectural efforts

photo credit: the pale side of insomnia(this article is part of the series "12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting")It is very difficult to document various aspects of an organization to the lowest level of detail or even to document the high level views…

• May 6, 2012
• Ming Fai

EA Heuristics #1: Looking for gaps? Push from top, guide from bottom.

photo credit: metropolitan police(this article is part of the series "12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting")When looking for gaps in the current stage architecture, a useful approach is start by “pushing from the top”—start with the enterprise’s strategic objectives, then use the objectives’…

• April 25, 2012
• Ming Fai

12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting

photo credits: i k oLessons learnt as I reflect on a recent four-month Enterprise Architecting (EA) exercise.   In the exercise, a 4-person team helped an organization map out where the organization was at, where it wanted to be and how it could…

• April 24, 2012
• Ming Fai

Architecture of my life

Photo Credit: Giampaolo MacorigI finally got started on something that I had wanted to do for a long time: apply Enterprise Architecture know-how to help me plan my life.  I have used EA techniques to help organisations and projects better understand where…

• April 23, 2012
• Ming Fai