Posts Tagged "Best Practices"

Rumination on the concept of “best practice”

I heard some very interesting talks today from Len Fehskens and Jeff Scott at the Open Group conference.  One thing that I picked up in a meeting yesterday was the notion that TOGAF 9.1 is built on “best practices.”  Today, as Jeff…

Functional Decomposition Isn’t Functional Anymore

Organizations today expect much more innovation from their employees than they did yesterday and will expect even more tomorrow. And not just technology innovation, but innovative products, services, processes, strategies, leadership styles, organizational designs, and more. This means that innovation isn’t just…

Five Steps To Becoming A Better Business Architect

If you are an established business architect you are most likely already doing most of these items. But if you are new to business architecture or are coming from IT or other operationally focused organizations, you should give each of these steps…

What Do Business Architects Do?

 NOTE: When I refer to “Business Architects” here, I am referring to anyone playing the role of the business architect. This could be business managers, enterprise architects, business analysts, strategists, etc. We don’t need the title of business architect to be one.…

OTTF Releases Snapshot of Developing Standard

By Sally Long, The Open Group Globalization has transformed the supply chain forever. While it has brought benefits to large Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Information and Communication Technology (ICT), it has also brought considerable risk. Although most technology hardware and software … Continue…

Best Practices in Enterprise and Applications Architecture

For those interested in a free webcast from Gartner on EA best practices here are the details: Hosted by: Betsy Burton (VP Distinguished Analyst) and Daniel Sholler (Research VP) Those who have cracked the code on enterprise and application architecture today have…