Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Mike Walker Myself and Mark Dorfmueller from P&G will be discussing the world of business architecture at the Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference in San Francisco [event program]. This will be followed by a panel discussion of industry experts that Mark and…
The Texas Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) has launched! From the President of the Texas AEA Chapter, I am very excited to establish this new chapter of the Global Association of Enterprise Architects. It brings with it great prestige and…
I would like to be the first to announce the Texas Chapter of the Association of Enterprise Architects! Myself and the rest of the the leadership have been working very hard to create this chapter. This post provides a quick…
As you may have read on my blog or even when you hear me present, I talk about how crucial soft-skills are to Enterprise Architects. In my personal opinion I think the majority of our success hinges on our ability…
On Monday November 18th I will be giving the keynote presentation at the HP Customer Forum in Cincinnati. The theme of the event is the future of IT and what you need to prepare for it. HP calls this the…
Today The Open Group released the updated whitepaper, Integrating the TOGAF® Standard with the BIAN Service Landscape. This release might be beneficial for those architects in the banking space that use or considering to use TOGAF in conjunction with BIAN….
Last week , The Open Group kicked off their signature Enterprise Architecture Conference in London. Like others in the recent past the Open Group has taken on a industry focus for these quarterly conferences. The goal here is to provide…
Last week was Gartner’s marquee event for its customers, Symposium ITxpo 2013. Gartner Symposium/ITxpo brings CIOs and senior IT executives together under one roof, the event offers 500+ analyst sessions, workshops, roundtables and mastermind keynotes across five full days. With…
Like every year, Gartner has released yet another great resource for Enterprise Architects with their EA Tools Magic Quadrant. This is a very useful tool especially if you are in the market for an Enterepise Architecture tool. Gartner dog a…
I wanted to share with all of you a great learning resource if you’re interested and understanding the Enterprise Architecture modeling notation called ArchiMate. If you follow my blog you have seen me talk about ArchiMate in the past as…
Business Architecture is a burning hot topic these days. I believe it is a key enabler to get us to a more contemporary or new world of Enterprise Architecture (EA). Continuing the shift from an IT centric Enterprise Architecture to…
At the Open Group Conference in London I will be leading two very impactful work streams for the practice of Enterprise Architecture. The first is an Enterprise Architecture Capability Model. This model takes the concept of a capability and applies…