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Mike Walker This week The Open Group IT Architect Certification (ITAC) program has now become The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program. The IT Specialist Certification (ITSC) program has now become The Open Group Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS) program. With…
This week I talked in length about The New World of Enterprise Architecture or also referred to as Contemporary Enterprise Architecture. This is the notion that EA is primarily business driven and focused. A few weeks back, I picked up…
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The second morning at the Open Group Conference changed themes a bit. The focus shifted from Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture to Security and Cloud. A topic that is very near and dear to my heart. There was quite a…
While at the conference I received lots of great feedback on my presentation. The most popular request has been publishing my deck. Below is the deck I presented at the Open Group Conference Austin in July 2011. The New World…
What a great first day at the Open Group conference in Austin. The big theme for today was the transformation of Enterprise Architecture to be business focused along with the corresponding Business Architecture practices. The sessions ranged from visionary, key…
Below is my session, I take a future look at where I see the Enterprise Architecture industry going. The New World of Enterprise Architecture, from IT Architecture to Enterprise Architecture Mike Walker Principal Architect, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture, Microsoft Enterprise…
I am really liking the new string of articles and posts on The New World of Enterprise Architecture as I am calling it. It seems like the tone and the perceptions of Enterprise Architecture is slowly changing from pessimistic to…
I ran across an interesting article today written by Mike Rosen on Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. He shares a similar belief as I on these. Ironically I was going to post something along these lines as well. I just sat in…
I ran across a very interesting article on HBR this morning entitled, “Making Your Strategy More Relevant”. It’s a great read and completely applies to Enterprise Architecture and the strategies we create. There are some good tips and observations included…
This week has been a really bad one for the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). With rumors of financial issues, leadership, and political infighting with the leadership team it is unclear if this will materially impact IASA.There additional strong…