Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Adrian Grigoriu Since both Business Architecture and Design Thinking have rather vague and wide scoping definitions it is hard to think they have having nothing in common. Yet, at first sight, it is hard to find anything common. We have to look through the thick …
There is no recognized Capabilities framework in EA. Not to my knowledge, anyhow. Moreover there is still no agreement on what a capability is. The term has too many different meanings.
Hence, I would rather avoid the term “capability”.
The…
You often heard that “people make the company”. Where are then “people” modelled in an EA?
In an enterprise, the people organisation has a structure consisting of functions in interaction. Hence, for all means and purposes, the organisation…
The Enterprise isa group of people organized to deliver a product employing technology.The definition includes people, processes (in “organized”) and technology. It is complete because it shows what the term equates to and consists of. The purpose…
Why are principles constituting so often a bottleneck for the EA activities or, soon after inception, are laid aside as an irritant better forgotten?
First of all, principles are, in essence, guidlines for decision making. They g…
The EA team alone cannot develop and maintain the whole EA without participation of stakeholders with respect to their own parts, Hence, the EA group has to create a governance framework that would be employed in the consistent design of EA a…
There has always been an opinion that, since the environment is so dynamic today, the enterprise management is an art. And that modelling the enterprise does not serve much purpose since it already depicts a past static state.That in contrast…
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We keep talking about EA without having in mind a common picture. A show case could be employed to this purpose, as a common reference.
What an EA show case should exhibit though?
An EA show case is an working EA made public th…
Top managment sets a vision. That is, a big picture they see the enterprise evolving to. But so (should) do the departments for their own functions. For instance, technology may have a vision. Human Resources may have one etc.
In doing EA one ha…
EAs exist indeed, even though, in many cases, EA is seen as a policing activity rather than a specific outcome such as the blueprint of the enterprise.
Still, while there are various reasons that samples are not turned into showcases, the situation is …
EA is often defined not as what it is but as what we think it is for. Too many EA definitions emphasise EA as a purpose rather than a description of what it is. There are a few issues with this. To start with, can you define a car by your goa…
Few EA developments cover the whole enterprise and few, indeed, if you listen to the discussion fora, are EA developments that result in the EA as an integrated blueprint of the entire enterprise.
The multiple definitions of EA and its scope are…