Posts by: Nick Malik

On My Move To Consulting Services

This is the official announcement.  After seven years of providing Enterprise Architecture services to my own company, Microsoft, I’ve decided to move into the Microsoft Consulting Services division and offer my Enterprise Architecture skills and experiences to other companies through Microsoft’s acclaimed…

Three Schools of Thought for Enterprise Architecture

It is interesting to watch the debates online between the different schools of thought of Enterprise Architecture.  The discussion was started by James Lapalme, who published a paper on "three schools of thought" which is in pre-print for the IEEE's IT Professional…

Setting Up A New EA or BA Practice

Recently, I was contacted via this blog by an individual who had been challenged to set up a new Business Architecture practice within his company’s Enterprise Architecture team.  He reached out to me to ask about some books to read and some…

EA Certifications Distilled

Mike Walker, one of my colleagues here at Microsoft, has done an excellent job of distilling various options for EA certification.  He made this presentation at the most recent Open Group Conference.  Strong Recommend. Enterprise Architecture Certifications Distilled View more PowerPoint from…

On the road to a Business Architecture Manifesto

One very powerful metaphor that has reverberated throughout the technical community, in the past few years, was the Agile Manifesto.  Created by a group of folks who wanted to communicate the principles that drove their thinking, the Agile Manifesto has been a…

Should We Kill The Architecture Review Board?

OK… I’ll say it.  The whole idea of an Architecture Review Board may be wrong-headed.  That officially puts me at odds with industry standards like CobiT, ongoing practices in IT architecture, and a litany of senior leaders that I respect and admire. …

Podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing Society

I was honored, recently, when the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) decided to interview me on the topics of Enterprise Architecture.  The first of those interviews has appeared on the CIPS.CA web site.  You can link to it from here. http://www.cips.ca/CIPS-INTERVIEWS-Nick-Malik-April2012

Time-to-Release – the missing System Quality Attribute

I’ve been looking at different ways to implement the ATAM method these past few weeks.  Why?  Because I’m looking at different ways to evaluate software architecture and I’m a fan of the ATAM method pioneered at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie…

MSBI–Part 2—What is a core diagram?

In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture.  Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided four example “core diagrams” from successful companies and noted that each…
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