Posts Tagged "work"

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike: tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need…

A kind of change-of-year review

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year. Right now I’m in…

The 2010 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Information World published the Enterprise Architecture Awards for 2010 today. Kudos to InfoWorld and Forrester. It is great to see this kind of socialization of EA successes. We often talk about the programs that haven’t worked instead of showcasing all the great…

A week in Tweets: 05-11 December 2010

Slipping back a bit – combination of travel, bad jetlag and an even worse cold… Oh well. Anyway, another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, as usual, for whoever might find them useful. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, business-models and suchlike businessy matters: SAlhir: White…

Six Ways to Refuel Your Energy Every Day

This is kinda an off topic post but it was a really interesting read and wanted to share. If you are like most architects out there, you are running at Mach 5 from meeting to meeting bringing the organization together. This article,…

A week in Tweets: 7-13 November 2010

Running way late on the weeklies – apologies. Usual categories, anyway, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link. Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, all that kind of stuff: SAlhir: innovation is less abt product & more about culture RT @jorgebarba @ovoinnovation real product of #innovation http://ow.ly/1rqENf…

What have software executives ever done for us?

@JohnSchlesinger asks What has the enterprise architect ever done for us? (@AtosOriginBlog, November 2010) John criticizes the IBM strategy in the late 1980s, especially the emphasis on Systems Application Architecture (SAA) and the neglect of CICS and IMS (John himself was a…

Architecture by Influence: Solution Architecture

A key to any Enterprise Architecture program is solution architecture. Solution architecture is where work gets done. If your EA team is disconnected from the solution architecture effort, you’ll probably hear the term “ivory tower” a lot. Unfortunately, it’s far more common…

CAEAP Publishes EA Professional Practice Guide

The Center for the Advocacy of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) published a collaborative work called the Enterprise Architecture Professional Practice Guide (EA PPG).  This is the first draft abstract for the EA PPG. I joined the CAEAP when it was formed…

An unusual blog post – obituary to C.K. Prahalad

Usually i restrict posts in this blog to the topics of strategic IT management and current technology topics. But this was not a usual man anyway. The legend who shaped thinking of modern managers is no more..I was introduced to his work…

What is Architecturally Significant?

What looks to be a very simple question is actually a very tough one. The answer to this is of particular importance to a domain architecture team (a team whose scope is larger than a single project or solution), but the principles…