Posts Tagged "Model"

Culture club

To set my thoughts in perspective I came up with the “brilliant” idea of describing what I think of as designing The Happy People Business. This is part two in an expanding series of posts where I’ll elaborate on this topic. The…

On human ‘applications’ in EA models

In enterprise-architecture, how should we model a human-based ‘application’ such as a customer-service line or reCaptcha or Amazon‘s ‘Mechanical Turk‘? [Note: on a first glance, this all looks really simple. As soon as we delve anywhere beneath the surface, though, it's definitely non-simple…

Between the boxes

What happens when people get too fixated on the ‘boxes’ in our models and frameworks? And what can we do about it in enterprise-architecture? This one’s actually a follow-on to the previous post about ‘It depends…‘, but it starts with a Tweet:…

A rant against 1:1

Everey now and again, I get really annoyed with sites that assume you have only one of something. "Please enter your email address" is a common request - except that I have several, and would like to have the opportunity to use…

A rant against 1:1

Everey now and again, I get really annoyed with sites that assume you have only one of something. "Please enter your email address" is a common request - except that I have several, and would like to have the opportunity to use…

Making Sense of the Enterprise Continuum, Part I

There is that famous proverb by George E. P.Box: All models are wrong but some are useful. If there is one model that fits that criterion, it must be Cynefin. Cynefin regularly receives criticism, grounded and ungrounded, for example by academics for its “oversimplification” as…

A Model for Literature on Enterprise Architecture

I have been working with several different perspectives on governance, strategy, it architecture and enterprise architecture. I have read several books on the three topics and as such I have been able to build a model for categorizing the literature. The Model…

An extended principles template

Most of the time principles is viewed as the highest form of governance. From random principles to actual governance entities there is sometimes a long road to travel. I use various templates to ease the pain of crafting the principles such that…

Enabling the BMC with the power of Q

I threw the basic grid below together as a tool to reason and visualize about how developers, analysts and architects generally use the BMC. My suspicion was that most users of the BMC scatter their efforts across the grid with an emphasis…

Enterprise Architecture and LEGO

When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence…

Reflections on the missing location in Archimate

Not having a concept for “Location” that stands on its own when creating these EA models will almost certainly create opportunity for misunderstanding. A “usable” Location in any blueprint must always be an instance of the pure logical Location Concept. An instance…
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