The next 5 months portend a spectacle of US Congressional battles to be waged ahead of the pending, mandatory “sequester” - automatic, mandatory federal government spending reductions of about $1 Trillion over 9 years, in non-exempt, discretionary appropriations, set to take effect…
Many companies do not do governance well. A primary reason for this is a focus on governance “process” at the expense of policies. And, where policies are established, it is common to observe a surfeit of bad, inconsistent policies that are overlapping…
As discussed in Part 1, for me the primary value in Cobit 5 is the formalization of policy as a concept that has a life cycle and management process. In CBDI-SAE we have focused very strongly on defining the policy hierarchy and…
I am impressed with Cobit 5. The leap from 4.1 to 5 is significant and useful. Points to note:- the level of detail has been REDUCED!- Cobit has discovered POLICIES! The framework is no longer a purely process perspective, but recognizes a…
As I found in our Enterprise Architecture team in Microsoft, each time an Enterprise Architect is assigned to a specific area of the business, each one has a unique “engagement” with their stakeholders. In very large organizations (like mine), there may be…
What are the values of a good enterprise architect? Being in a consulting practice where I spend the most of my working life collaborating with CIO's, process owners, and senior architects, I often hear that question. Often the question emerges out of…
The recent “Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture” (US Executive Office of the President, May 2 2012) is extremely timely and well-organized guidance for the Federal IT investment and deployment community, as useful for Federal Departments and Agencies as it is for…
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…
Here we are at the final part in our hot discussion – will Agile and CMM get hitched, become a potent combination? If you have followed the earlier parts of this story, you would share my excitement – for the … Continue…
HP Distinguished Technologist E.G. Nadhan outlines factors that define the right way to use Cloud Computing for enterprise transformation. Continue reading →
In the first part of the discussion, drawing upon the genesis of Agile and CMM, we were left wondering if the two are “The Misfits”, and most likely to disappoint the pacifists, or can they become soul-mates after all. The … Continue…
If you have begun reading this, you probably have drawn two correct conclusions already. One, that I am a fan of Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker, professionally recognized as Marilyn Monroe. And two, having worked with both, Agile and CMM, I … Continue…