I think that the push for considering an alternative means to engage in EA is, indeed, already underway. In organizations who treat “people as strategy” (e.g., SEMCO, Whole Foods, HCL, Topcoder), wherein people are give broad self-directed control of creating and…
It’s Symposium season. We actually began in South Africa at the end of August and in Brazil in September. We continue this coming Sunday-Thursday in Orlando and then Cannes, France, Japan and Sydney, Australia, to conclude this years largest gathering of CIOs…
Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within. Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace. Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle…
In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response…
Typically, the world of EA is boring. All bets are off as John Zachman goes to court and questions are raised about the near term and long term effects to the commercialization of EA Frameworks and the EA certification marketplace. It’s still…
A common misperception being hyped in EA circles concerns the notion that business architecture is something different from enterprise architecture. This is a blatant attempt to classify EA as something only applicable to IT when, in fact, EA is applicable to the…
Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking. And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re…
Leo de Sousa shared a blog that covered his experience of doing the current state first, supporting Adrian Grigoriu’s response to my posting last week entitled Applying EA to Your Life . I do, in fact, support the contention that current state is…
Recently, I was asked to help a friend out. The conversation began with a grand vision of where this person saw himself in a year’s time. I was excited by the vision and we discussed what it would feel like once he…
I took a tour of The Pearl Brewery last week, led by REAL ARCHITECTS. Although I’m not associated with such building architects normally, I was pleased to see how ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE is applicable in the work associated with the development of this former brewery,…