Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Gerben Wierda A short one today. I have a view taken from a certain book. The view contains an error, can you spot it? And when you have spotted it, go to the ArchiMate 2.1 Specification and can you tell me what … Continue reading →
Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a scenario … Continue reading →
Just a short mention here: I’ve just published a new column on the site of the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal titled Reverse Cloud. It deals with the latency effect in networks (which is thoroughly explained in an aside) and describes a … Continue reading →
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other ‘technical debt’ in your landscape, and you don’t have the habit of underestimating … Continue reading →
In the previous post, Reusable Infrastructure Modelling Patterns, I discussed the creation of reusable patterns to more effectively model large homogenous parts of the infrastructure landscape, or in other words: if you have 1000 identical RHEL servers, modelling the structure of … Continue reading →
A while back, I wrote the post Modelling Homogenous Landscapes in #ArchiMate (Classes and Instances), which was a first post on modelling detailed infrastructure landscapes. Assuming you’re with me that a modelling language is very useful for large complex situations, but doesn’t … Continue reading →
There are not many images in the Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture book. But the type of paper and the size of the book make some of them only borderline readable. Some people have reported trouble reading them, especially … Continue reading →
As soon as you, as an enterprise architect, want to address the problem of the complex Business-IT landscape, and you actually acknowledge in a discussion that Enterprise Architecture has come into existence because of the complexity of modern IT-laden landscapes, … Continue reading →
Short update. For those who would like to discuss Enterprise Architecture with me in person: I will be presenting at the Gartner EA Summit London 2015 on May 20th 2015 in London UK and I will be giving the closing keynote (in … Continue reading →
Short update. For those who would like to discuss Enterprise Architecture with me in person: I will be presenting at the Gartner EA Summit London 2015 on May 20th 2015 in London UK and I will be giving the closing … Continue reading →
Large, complex landscapes are a pain. With hundreds of servers, hundreds of applications, thousands of users (and thus usage patterns) and a constant flux of small and large changes, few organisations are really in full control of what they actually … Continue reading →
The direction of arrow of the Used-By relation is a constant source of entertainment and/or frustration, see for instance this (started by Sol Kahn, 37 comments) and this LinkedIn discussion (started by Michiel Perdeck, 40 comments). As the latter discussion shows, … Continue reading →