Is there an Enterprise Architect Paradox? Surely is.
My advice: discard the title of EA. Find what what the employer wants and recruit accordingly.
Adrian Grigoriu
The essential value of EA
Here is the question How do you perform a cost benefit analysis for an Enterprise Architecture?Does anyone have case studies showing EA valueThe discussions about case studies on the value of EA or its benefits seem to never never die. Same as the…
Why do we need architecture?
A question still often asked today, is why do we need enterprise architecture. It is intriguing though that, more often than not. the architects are asking the question.But first, let me ask and answer a few related questions: Why d…
The difference between architecture and design, architect and designer
Even though the architecture is defined as both the structured description of a system and the structure of the system itself, the term “architecture” is mainly used, at least in the “electrical” industries, as the structured description of a sys…
EA architects still discuss what architecture is
The fact that we cannot even agree on what architecture is, never mind what enterprise architecture (EA) is, says a lot about the maturity of the EA discipline that, surprisingly, has so many practitioners and experts today. What is EA delivering then?…
What should an Enterprise Architecture maturity framework consider?
Even if a process delivers EA, the application of EA, may be lacking because of its poor sell, communications and as such, lack of adoption. So the benefits would not be realised.
Core capabilities and how to establish them
Before delving into the subject of core capabilities, a definition of what that is would be welcome. A few questions must be first asked to clear the field. I wouldn’t go into what the capability is since that was discussed too many times. I will analy…
A framework that can illustrate capabilities and business services
Eric’s analogy about interface and application (see comments for the previous post, Business services versus capabilities) maybe of wider interest and hence, this post.Application may not be the best example though because it would reduce the scop…
Business services versus capabilities
Neither business service nor capability are unanimously defined and agreed so far.In the absence of sanctioned definitions, the subject is then open to interpretation until an wide agreement is reached. Nevertheless, employing common sense m…
Enterprise Architecture relation to Security and the Cloud
A security architecture would have to be build around the EA.
While IT architecture diminishes in importance,the EA, as such, would
Do stakeholders fear EA taking over? They do.
The framework is the EA glue, it holds the EA together.
The framework helps conquer the enterprise complexity by enabling the business domains of the enterprise to deliver enterprise level outcomes while still focusing on their own fields.
Ten predictions for business architecture, is that right?
“Ten prediction for business architecture in 2020” from Accelare. Are they right?
Looking a bit too far ahead by here it is, point by point.
Points
# 1, “Business architecture will become a vertical function” and
# 2, “Business architects will be distr…