EA

Don’t ban the word “alignment” from your architecture

Alignment though essentially means transforming the enterprise (technology for instance) to perform what the business needs on an operational, tactical and strategic scale.

June 12, 2013
Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

The Open Group Sydney – My Conference Highlights

By Mac Lemon, MD Australia at Enterprise Architects Well the dust has settled now with the conclusion of The Open Group ‘Enterprise Transformation’ Conference held in Sydney, Australia for the first time on April 15-20. Enterprise Architects is proud to have been…

May 14, 2013
Open Group

Corso Introduces Roadmapping Support for TOGAF® 9 in its Strategic Planning Platform

By Martin Owen, CEO, Corso Last week, we announced new roadmapping support for TOGAF® in IBM Rational System Architect®, a leading Enterprise Architecture and modeling software. The new TOGAF extension supports the modeling, migration and implementation of an Enterprise Architecture within Corso’s…

May 9, 2013
Open Group

The brand new “Enterprise Architecture matters blog” book, just Kindled

Just published this brand new book "The Enterprise Architecture matters blog" on Amazon Kindle. It is a collection of blogs on Enterprise Architecture (EA) I posted to during the last few years. I blogged, constantly, since the very beginning of 2007.…

March 30, 2013
Enterprise Architecture Development Matters

An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility

While working with a recent partner, the question came up; "What changes are made to the EA approach if agile methods are required, or otherwise heavily encouraged?" The initial answer at the time was "Not many – we already have an agile…

March 20, 2013
Bryan T. Miller

Complexity from Big Data and Cloud Trends Makes Architecture Tools like ArchiMate and TOGAF More Powerful, Says Expert Panel

We recently assembled a panel of Enterprise Architecture (EA) experts to explain how such simultaneous and complex trends as big data, Cloud Computing, security, and overall IT transformation can be helped by the combined strengths of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®)…

March 1, 2013
Open Group

Framework for Service Oriented Ecosystem

I note interesting debates about the need for a next generation EA framework. However I am disappointed by the less than radical nature of debate that, at least I, have observed. I submit a good place to start is with the fundamental…

February 18, 2013
David Sprott

Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks? Second installment

In any case, EA does not equal TOGAF and vice-versa.

February 15, 2013
Adrian Grigoriu

Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks?

"TOGAF is not complex". Its content is not, in fact it is rather bland, the form is though. It's simply too large, consisting of sections that are not specific to architecture but overlap, unnecessarily, with other methodologies.

February 10, 2013
Adrian Grigoriu

Types of Cost

When planning and measuring business benefits there are three basic contributing elements: revenues, costs and intangibles. If you look for guidance on “types of cost” most sources decompose cost types in accounting terms like those shown in the very good extract from…

January 24, 2013
Alex Matthews

2013 Open Group Predictions, Vol. 1

As we wrap up 2012, we couldn't help but look towards what is to come in 2013 for The Open Group and the industries we‘re a part of. Without further ado, here they are... Continue reading →

January 2, 2013
Open Group

Zachman’s is neither a framework nor an ontology, it is a development process

The vertical dimension describes the system development process beginning with the objectives establishment and conceptual design and ending with the Implementation.

December 15, 2012
Adrian Grigoriu

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