Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Angry ArchitectThis year marks thirty years since the publishing of Zachman’s seminal paper. And since then there’s been a torrent of publications on architecture. What’s always puzzled me was that despite all that brain power and all that paper, and believe me I’ve got bookcases and filing cabinets full of it, I’ve never come across a […]
I keep being told how Digital Innovation and DevOps are going to save the world. Unfortunately for the salesmen I’ve been around long enough to have seen a magazine full of silver bullets, think Distributed Computing, PCs, Information Centers, Fourth Generation Languages, End User Computing, Object Orientation, ESBs, SOA, BPM and even Java to name […]
This is not your usual architecture book as its title suggests it is about modelling using the ArchiMate notation. The author doesn’t promote any particular tool and concentrates on the notation, which recently underwent a major revision. Whether you are new to ArchiMate or have been using it for some time I think you’ll find […]
I have to declare my position. It will probably come as no surprise to those who read this site that I’m not exactly a fan of TOGAF. But, I have to say one of the best things they have ever done is support ArchiMate. I am a big fan of ArchiMate and use […]
While this book is not an architecture book, I’ve always maintained that architects need to be across the entire project delivery life cycle. So I think it’s relevant. I’ll start with the book’s shortcomings, but don’t let them put you off, as it does have something to offer. To be frank, the style is a […]
I’ve commented on the questionable ethics of some consultants previously, but something I witnessed recently prompts me to revisit the issue. In the last three or so years in particular I suspect that I’ve witnessed, initially unnoticed, a growing tendency for consultancies to see clients’ projects increasingly in terms of cash flow and less as […]
I am frequently appalled by the lack of rigor in this craft and this has been recently highlighted to me by a linguistic habit that I suspect comes from a younger generation. ( Sorry guys feel free to have a hack at the old bastard!) That is the use of the answer Yes/No to a […]
. First I have to declare that while I’ve never worked with Phil I have worked in the same organization and I do know him. So with any conflict of interest covered off we can now get down to business. There are lots of books that will offer either directly or discursively a reference architecture. […]
Recently I’ve spent a lot of time investigating a system that’s been around for about ten years. Like many systems the developers are long gone and the system, ticking over reliably, has been ignored. Well its time to replace the system and also like many other similar systems no one actually knows what the thing […]
The other week, I’m being deliberately obtuse to spare some the embarrassment, I had to engage with a number of people, some in my organization others from outside. What struck me was that everybody was an architect! But wait a minute I thought are they really? The first architect I encountered was a Java architect. […]
Intangible value and Enterprise Architecture are two kindred topics. Accountants would have us believe that if you can’t value something it has no value. Which is kind of hypercritical when you consider that the biggest number on a balance sheet is usually depreciation and that’s a guess! Anyway if you find yourself in the […]
A little time back, I’m being deliberately vague which is a sin for an architect, to avoid embarrassing the presenter it’s not their fault. I had the somewhat dubious pleasure of attending a vendor briefing. The vendor in question had just been acquired by a very big software company and was on a road trip […]