Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
This week I invited Dr. Brian Cameron to an internal Microsoft Architecture Summit for internal Microsoft IT Enterprise Architects and our Microsoft Services Enterprise Strategy and Architecture organizations. He was our featured keynote speaker about his efforts in the Enterprise…
Metrics guide our actions (photo credit: stefan)(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)How can an organization recognize progress without appropriate metrics? Metrics are helpful in assessing if the organi…
Received an email-flyer this morning from one of my web-hosting providers, inviting me to join their new cloud-storage service, JustCloud. “It’s Free!”, it says, everywhere on the flyer and on the website; “Get Your Free Cloud Storage! – Sign Up Now!”. Um. Yes. Well, I’m a cautious sort of bloke, and when I see the […]
Metrics guide our actions (photo credit: stefan)(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)How can an organization recognize progress without appropriate metrics? Metrics are helpful in assessing if the organi…
Metrics guide our actions (photo credit: stefan)(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting”)How can an organization recognize progress without appropriate metrics? Metrics are helpful in assessing if the organi…
Why: Motivation for the Conceptual Architecture View
Conceptual Architecture is a key medium for describing the “big picture” and essential design ideas of our system, helping others to more rapidly comprehend a complex system, how it is composed and its critical mechanisms or interworking to achieve some key internal system capability essential to sustaining itself. The […]
by: Bill Cason, CTO, Troux
IT organizations must speak the language of the business in order to play a more strategic role within the enterprise. Our experience has shown that IT can begin this journey by defining and understanding six p…
by: Bill Cason, CTO, Troux
IT organizations must speak the language of the business in order to play a more strategic role within the enterprise. Our experience has shown that IT can begin this journey by defining and understanding six p…
As many of you are aware, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summit starts tomorrow in National Harbor, MD! This year’s agenda looks promising – focusing heavily on how EA can and should deliver business value, growth and transformation. In our second annual Must-See Guide to Gartner EA, we’ve compiled our “Top Ten” list of eye-catching […]
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What is Conceptual Architecture?
“Conceptual Architecture” is the conceptual view(s) of the architecture of a system. It describes at a broad brushstrokes conceptual level the significant design ideas of the system. In particular, this view includes diagrams and text which identify, explicate, rationalize and contextualize the key structures and mechanisms of the system, and the relationships […]
One of the more subtle problems in enterprise-architecture – in English-language, anyway – is the distinction between values (plural) and value (singular, but often used as plural). The Enterprise Canvas frame provides several useful methods via to disentangle an existing values-mess, and prevent getting into that kind of mess in the first place. In Enterprise Canvas, we […]
By Steve Philp, The Open Group Andrey Zaychikov is CIO and Chief Enterprise Architect Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy for the Russian Federation In February 2012, Andrey Zaychikov became the first Russian to go through the Open CA … C…