Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Alexander Matthews In a recent blog post, Philip Allega asked the following 4 questions. In the absence of a specific scenario to allow contextualized answers this is my 2 seconds worth.
How will you deliver business value?
By addressing specific business problems an…
To me, enterprise architecture is both a method and a thing. (i.e. a verb and a noun)
I have put together a summary of what this means to me and have applied some constraints. These are:
that it should fit on one presentation slide,
should be com…
I recently discovered the wonderful Jörgen Dahlberg (Twitter: @greblhad).
He posts his enterprise architecture motto as follows:
"In the end it comes down to ABC spelled out as “Achieving Business outCome".
I may have a new EA hero!!
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An excellent post on anecdote.com.au included 5 questions to help you assess whether your organisation has "strategic clarity". The question are:
Can the executive team simply and clearly describe the strategy without referring to notes (or powerpoint slides) aided only by simple sketches they make themselves?
Does the executive team all believe in and describe the same strategy?
Do the
Enterprise architecture blog rollI’m going to post my personal list of great enterprise architecture blog sites here.
First three cabs off the rank are Nik Malik, Jeff Scott and Tom Graves. Currently these three guys are the thought leaders in the fie…
Gartner neatly defines the difference between business architecture and business context as:
[E]nterprise business architecture is focused on applying EA practices to the business dimension (people, process, organization and financials) in order to "architect the business."
[B]usiness context is focused on articulating the business strategy, market trends and requirements in order to ensure an
"EA is now widely accepted s an essential mechanism for ensuring transparency, consistency, compliance and ultimately flexibility/agility in companies and public agencies"
from Robert Winter, & Elmar J Sinz. (2007). Enterprise Architecture. Information Systems and eBusiness Management, 5(4), 357-358. Retrieved August 29, 2010, from ABI/INFORM Global.
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For those interested in enterprise architecture it is “the continuous practice of describing the essential elements of a sociotechnical organization, their relationships to each other and to the environment, in order to understand complexity and m…
Who wrote the interview questions?
Face it – you are being hired as one of the top technical employees at the prospects company. Who is going to ask you questions? Chances are the interviewer didn’t create them and had somebody else to do this for the…
It is not my intent in writing to this Enterprise Architecture blog to spend any time getting caught in the old-school EA mentality of thinking in an Enterprise Architecture-centric way. I share Mike Rolling’s of Burton Group’s perspective in this re…
Alex Cullen from Forrester recently posted a blog post entitled "How Would You Sell Business Architecture To Your CEO?". To summarize as briefly as possible, Alex had no prior warning and used the following messages to ‘sell’ EA to the CEO.
EA supports consistency in the execution of corporate strategy
EA supports alignment of IT initiatives to corporate strategy
The use of capability maps
CAEAP is The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession. It is an advocacy body for the emerging (and dying) profession of enterprise architecture. The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession is wo…