Would the TOGAF User Group be able to open up the standard?
The idea of looking into other Enterprise Architecture frameworks is right but it would hardly materialise in a TOGAF User Group
Adrian Grigoriu
The Enterprise Architect versus the Project Manager, cnt’d
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The PM is as such the administrative secretary of a project team who has to facilitate the work of the professionals rather than tell them what to do and how they should break down the work. Hence, while the Project Manager has own role in a…
The role of the Enterprise Architect versus the Project Manager
…without an EA, a transformation is blind. It does not see the objects around and in its path. Thus it bumps into them or it fails to consider them.
What Google thinks a good manager is
A manager must make sure that the team members are motivated, otherwise, expressing interest in the team personal well being may be seen only as political correctness.
What can we do to make the Enterprise Architecture standards work for us?
Since we don’t know what we don’t know about EA, the first step would be to get to know what we don’t know. Only then we can the right questions.
What Enterprise Architects do and should do
Given the EA state today, an EA architect should first create and employ own methodology to model the integrated blueprint of the enterprise and guide the transformation.
Since the Enterprise Architects number is on the increase, what do they actually do?
Too often the “Enterprise” in the EA term translates into experience in the enterprise IT, while “Architect” into a senior IT employee.
Enterprise Architecture is still juvenile, why?
The big issue is though that we don’t know what we don’t know. Hence we don’t know what to do about it.
The ultimate cost of bad IT is the fear of change that paralyses industries
Such IT failures we learn nothing from, have a debilitating effect on future projects. Organizations are paralysed by the fear of change. Hence things continue to be bad for fear they can get even worse.
The cost of bad IT begins with a poor situation appraisal
Failing to appraise the situation properly is perhaps the main cause of failure for IT projects.
The cost of bad IT increases with poor situation appraisal
Failing to appraise the situation properly is perhaps the main cause of failure for IT projects.