Philip Allega: 0 0 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 early days, but challenges from the “father of EA” require consideration. Before I share some of the long-winded background analysis, let me get right to the point:...
Tom Graves: 0 0 What ontology-frameworks do we need, to make sense of the enterprise-architecture of a logistics-business? This is the first of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create appropriate tools to help people make sense of a specific business-context: Part 1 [this post]: Zachman plus tetradian -> extended-Zachman Part 2: TOGAF plus...
Anders Jensen-Waud: 0 0 I have spent the last few days reviewing the most contemporary Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks. As I am trying to establish a common description of the methodology behind EA, my goal is to sketch the intersection of methodological assumptions these framework impose on organisations. However, the analysis is still on a very high level of abstraction as my goal is a cross-framework conceptualisation. Of course, every f...
Anders Jensen-Waud: 0 0 I have spent the last few days reviewing the most contemporary Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks. As I am trying to establish a common description of the methodology behind EA, my goal is to sketch the intersection of methodological assumptions these framework impose on organisations. However, the analysis is still on a very high level of abstraction as my goal is a cross-framework conceptualisation. Of course, every f...
Nick Malik: 0 0 I am writing this blog post while I am listening to a teleconference from Sam Holcman, founder of the EACOE, friend of John Zachman, and a leading proponent of his own methodology for using the Zachman Framework. It should be no surprise to folks who read my blog that I have a love-hate relationship with the ZF. I love the fact that John Zachman led the way with a great start on understanding the key elements of...
Mike Walker: 0 0 Last week John Zachman released the third edition of his EA Framework. Like with other versions seen below, he has made iterative refinements to the model. After many years as noted as being a framework, it is slowing starting to shift to what it materially represents, an ontology. While there is no formal rename there is additional classification of the framework below the new title. Zachman International sent a press rel...
Kristian Hjort-Madsen: 0 0 I recently commented on Philip Allega’s blog. Phil understands that enterprise architecture (EA) programs must be more than buzzwords, and his post made me revisit one of the EA-disciplines grand old men, John Zachman. According to John Zachman, EA is a mechanism “for defining and controlling the interfaces and integration of all of the components of the system” (Zachman, 1989). There are different architecture discipline...
John A. Zachman: 0 0 Welcome to my blog! I am very excited about the new developments in The Zachman Framework 3.0 and Zachman International! We have spent the last couple years “underground” refining our research, developing several new programs, forging new relationships, developing the community of practice and getting zachman.com ready for prime time! Well, the time is finally here to start rolling these things out! You’ll...
Eric A. Stephens: 0 0 I just perused Mr. Allega’s (Gartner) recent article on the legal quagmire that is stirring around the Zachman brand, framework, and its two proponents. It is too bad such a pair of thought leaders will end their careers in such a manner. Upon reading the article I thought I would share some thoughts about Zachman. I had the privilege of taking their 5 day course on the topic of EA. It was the single key factor that ex...
Eric A. Stephens: 0 0 I just perused Mr. Allega’s (Gartner) recent article on the legal quagmire that is stirring around the Zachman brand, framework, and its two proponents. It is too bad such a pair of thought leaders will end their careers in such a manner. Upon reading the article I thought I would share some thoughts about Zachman. I had the privilege of taking their 5 day course on the topic of EA. It was the single key factor that ex...
Tom Graves: 0 0 What frameworks do we need, to link across all domains and layers of the enterprise-architecture space? How can we create such frameworks? This is the fifth and final item in this series of worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice - on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create a tool that will help people make sense of a specific business-context: Part 1: Zachman plus tetradian -> e...
Richard Veryard: 0 0 @JohnZachman insists that his classification scheme is fixed—it is not negotiable. Comparing his Zachman Framework with the periodic table originally developed by Dmitri Mendeleev, he says, “You can’t argue with Mendeleev that he forgot a column in the periodic table”. Well, actually, you can. If you look at the Wikipedia article on the Periodic Table, you can see the difference between Mendeleev’s or...