Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Jörgen Dahlberg There is another way of running projects and that is to treat each project as an experiment within a set variance. If we do this then it becomes natural that the projects are mission based and thus find their own best way to the expected result. It has another effect and that is that it […]
Have you ever thought of the demographics of the enterprise, how people and applications of technology fluctuate across the timeline, ever close and dependent but never the same. It is as if they where different population groups within the corporate context, struggling for the ultimate right to power. Both entities feeding of the memes that […]
If Churchill had been an Enterprise Architect then maybe the speech below had been a reality… The problems raged on. The Architect told the leaders, “I have, myself, full confidence that if we all do our duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall […]
Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them […]
“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves… There’s so much talk about the system. […]
The only real difference between an business supervised by an entrepenur and a manager is that the entrepenur is driven by love and the manager is driven by fear.
In most architecture and project methodologies you are asked to create a communications package, naming stakeholders and activities on how you will address their needs. Rarely do I find that they try to secure that communications will go smooth. These are some ways that one can evaluate the communicative capability. – Document the positive and […]
One need to ask if what is depicted in the view below is architecture or if it is solution design. The picture is taken from the ArchiSurance Case Study by the Open Group which has released it under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ license. The ArchiSurance Case Study can be downloaded here.
The essential problem with enterprise architecture is that it is an exercise that rewards a dull, methodical approach. The margins are so tight that doing it with passion will certainly end in a mess.
In any major change you deliberately want to challenge positions and point of views. There is no use in attempting a shift from high risk hero driven development to low risk method driven development ala Model driven Enterprise Architecture if you don…
The key issue with Archimate and most other frameworks is that the Z factor is uncontrolled. What this means is that you will have architects creating views that are unaligned and unintegratable on any wider scale. So on the surface it looks good but underneath the rot has set in and in short amount of […]