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Adrian Grigoriu Since an EA practice is successful if and only if it delivers the EA first, how would one define the certification criteria to validate the EA outcome if it is unclear what the EA delivers?
We have, obviously, the problem of regulating the EA profession. Currently, many do take EA training and certifications in the hope they’d improve their career prospects. But do they improve or guarantee the practitioners’ prowess to do the job?
Why should there be EA politics in the first place? Because EA is a complex, long term human activity, demanding cooperation of many parties and expensive skilled resources. And politics is all about human interaction and competition. Because EA is…
Thinking in many Enterprises is tactical at best. Firefighting would better express the fact. This is a main source of politics in the enterprise, since stakeholders would often question the resources allocation to the EA effort.The EA thinking …
The EA is commended because of the state of high entropy of the Enterprise: high complexity, poor availability and understanding induced by years of patching, point solutions, silo operation, organic growth, mergers and a growing divide between busine…
Is Enterprise Architecture a breeding ground for politics? As with any human activities and relationships, there is politics, but to what degree?EA spans business and technology knowledge domains and crosses many internal organization boundaries with …
Currently, there are too many EA frameworks that crowd the EA field, too many development approaches, too many insufficient metamodels… and too many parties that claim to hold the truth. Since the approaches or parties have little in common they…
Currently, there are too many EA frameworks that crowd the EA field, too many development approaches, too many insufficient metamodels… and too many parties that claim to hold the truth. Since the approaches or parties have little in common they bew…
A governance framework establishes who makes what decisions and based on what. The EA architects shall propose a governance framework that regulates the EA development itself and its employment in the enterprise. The development governance i…
How do you make sure that you chose the right candidate for an EA job? Here are a few questions that, if answered to your satisfaction, may clear the way to the appointment. Indeed, there maybe other questions that you…
Requirements apply to projects rather than to Enterprise Architecture. It is the strategy concept that applies to the EA, rather than the requirements one. The strategy team (which usually, is not the same as the EA team), is responsibl…
FFLV-GODS is an EA methodology (or extended framework…) that integrates the many existing frameworks concepts, classifies them in four different aspects, and integrates them in this framework whole.FFLV-GODS consists of:- 1. The Framework i…