Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Adrian Grigoriu 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 any purpose since it aalready depicts a past static state.That in contrast…
Tom Graves’ On layers in enterprise-architecture questions the role of layers in EA.I beg to differ. Greatly.True, EA layers today are not consistent in meaning even when coming from the same organisation. Take for instance TM Forum’s. But re…
Is EA a story? Nick Malik’s post Enterprise Architecture as Story needs commenting upon.To me the question is, are we going back on “A picture says a thousand words”? After all, EA is an architecture or, if you like, the blueprint of the ente…
A full EA consists of the integration of the Business, Technology and People/Organisation architectures.
Brenda had a mobilising post, “Stop talking about Enterprise Architecture. Go solve a problem”. And here is my view where I beg to differ. Paraphrasing the proverb “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him…
Requirements occupy the central place in the ADM cycle, the architecture development process. Each and every ADM phase seems to take them into consideration. For what reason though?To begin with, is the ADM about architecture development or the e…
While TOGAF is not inhibiting a different EA thinking, in fact it inadvertently stimulates that, TOGAF is still hindering the take off and the development of other approaches.TOGAF not only ignores but competes with the other EA approaches rather than …
For a start, I sympathise with Tom’s view.Len is quoted to say that “The Open Group and TOGAF will not change their concept of enterprise architecture until the community as a whole does”.I think too that Open Group, as a company, plays an administrati…
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…
This is in response to the post “As-Is modelling to be registered as an official disease?” and a too popular stance that As-Is EA doesn’t matter, it is a waste of time. How do you design the target architecture if you do not discover an document f…