Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Leo de Sousa After my original post about Toyota’s A3 Process, I received several tweets and comments about the use of the A3 Process in organizations. Redge posted a great comment: Having worked in the automotive industry and as a supplier to Toyota, I can a…
Joe McKendrick (@joemckendrick) wrote about Lean IT on ZDNet on Dec 27, 2010 titled Eight steps to achieve lean IT. In his set of steps, Joe mentioned the Toyota A3 Report approach to looking at problems and A3 Thinking. He refers to this site abo…
My rant on “Are we the reason it is so hard to express EA’s value?” last week restarted the ongoing debate about what EA is and should be doing. Others posted their comments and feedback via Twitter. The consensus was in line wi…
I was on a biweekly EA2010 conference call today and got pretty frustrated with the discussion. There are some really amazing people like Brenda Michelson and Aleks Buterman on the call that get it and recognize that the value of Enterprise Architect…
Over the past month, I hit a couple of career milestones. On August 31, 2010, I completed my 18th year of service at British Columbia Institute of Technology. On Sept 4, 2010, I completed 3 years as the Manager, Business Application Services and Ente…
I just saw a post by Adrian Grigoriu responding to Gartner’s Philip Allega’s post Applying EA to Your Life . Within the post about how EA might be able to help plan our lives, Philip then brings up an regular EA debate “Do you start…
Todd Biske posted a summary of a conversation he had with Mike Rollings, Brenda Michelson, Chris Bird and others. They were discussing the future of Enterprise Architecture. A theme that emerged from their talks focused on whether your practice is de…
Since I completed both the UBC Sauder School of Business – Certificate in Management Excellence and the Carnegie Mellon Institute of Software Research International – Certified Enterprise Architect program, I have been looking to take the n…
My friend Nick Malik wrote a post – Zachman’s Fatal Flaw: No Row for Customer. Here is my response … Do I believe that Zachman’s Framework is fatally flawed? No. It all depends on your perspective and that to me is defined by your…
The Center for the Advocacy of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) published a collaborative work called the Enterprise Architecture Professional Practice Guide (EA PPG). This is the first draft abstract for the EA PPG. I joined the CAEAP …
I just read Chris Lockhart’s interesting post “The Right Stuff“. In the post Chris wrote about his bias for selecting enterprise architects based on his career experience. The main topics in the post are: natural selection of IT a…
New Initiatives in Shared Network Applications – Identity Management Working Group Report 2010 To watch our panel presentation, click here for the video IDM Working Group Purpose As a working group under the direction of the Applications Advisory…