For all of you out there that use or embrace the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) there is some good news for you. Today The Open Group officially confirmed that the MSF meets all criteria to be recognized as a valid IT Architecture…
For all of you out there that use or embrace the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) there is some good news for you. Today The Open Group officially confirmed that the MSF meets all criteria to be recognized as a valid IT Architecture…
A busy week this has been. The Gartner EA Summit and the Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference were both on in London at the same time, little more than a few hundred yards apart. And a lot of other things starting…
Today’s the last day for the ‘Early Bird’ for the Open Group London conference (Twitter hashtag #oglon) on enterprise-architecture and the like. It’s being held in my ‘home-city’ – just over fifty miles away. In principle, it’s one of the flagship conferences for my…
A common challenge among architects and architecture organizations is the challenge of properly understanding the landscape of architecture assets within and external to the enterprise. With all the different definitions, hierarchy and levels of abstraction it can be difficult to really get…
Today the Open Group has released their yearly state of enterprise architecture on their blog (http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/16/podcast-examining-the-state-of-ea-and-findings-of-recent-survey ). The panel discussion led by Dana Gardner with Interabor Solutions was recorded at the Open Group conference last week in San Diego. The panel discussed…
For those that want to learn about Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) alfabet who is a tools vendor is hosting a webcast on their thoughts on EAM. I would assume that they will illustrate that through their tool. Enterprise Architecture Management with…
Interesting news from the Open Group in regards to their TOGAF® enterprise architecture framework standard. The Open Group just hit two major milestones for the architecture standard: The Open Group has announced via its blog that TOGAF® was recently granted registered…
The following a selected subset of the Tweets and links sent out by attendees and other from the Open Group (TOGAF) conference on enterprise-architecture, IT-security and cloud-computing. Given my own interests, I’ve emphasised enterprise-architecture, but I’ve included many of the others as…
By Garry Doherty Why is the world such a crazy place? Why does it seem that everything is crashing down around our ears, bringing chaos, confusion and uncertainty? Well, there is a very, very simple reason. The universe is entropic*. Things were…
By Jim Hietala A news story in my local newspaper caught my eye today. State fails “hacker” test was the headline. The state of Colorado (U.S.) hired an outside security assessment firm to perform penetration tests across various state agency IT infrastructure. The…
By Steve Philp At the beginning of every new calendar year, many organizations discuss with employees specific job-related objectives and career development plans for the next 12 months and beyond. For many individuals, certification is highlighted as something that they should be…