Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Nick Malik I’ve often heard “soft” metaphors used when discussing Enterprise Architects. Some compare EA to the grease in a machine… necessary for the machine to run but we don’t provide the energy for progress so much as we reduce the friction.&#…
There is no question that businesses need Business Architects. There is no question that business architecture in an important set of activities. The question is, really, where do we get them? I’ve seen no lack of interest in this field….
This is an interesting question, and it depends on a lot of different kinds of answers. The business architecture team here in Microsoft IT has developed a set of services that they will offer to various customers, both within IT and in the busin…
Enterprise Architects get involved in some pretty hairy discussions. One responsibility that tends to fall to Enterprise Architecture is to steer the evolution of the business and/or business infrastructure away from needless complexity and towar…
Ran across this on the blog of Andy Blumenthal… very cool idea.
We see a lot of discussion, in the frameworks, books, speeches, and the blogosphere that discusses the value of EA as it applies to the planning and governance of money spent to change a company (usually IT dollars, but many enlightened souls will spea…
Adrian Grigoriu recently posted about the failure of EA frameworks to address real enterprise architecture, due to their focus on IT and lack of focus on business. He is right, of course, in pointing out that TOGAF does not cover Enterprise Archi…
Tom Graves, David Linthicum, and I recently got into an interesting discussion on Twitter as the result of a, EBiz blog post by David, where he makes the statement that Good SOA is the same as Good EA. (See ‘Do SOA and enterprise architecture now…
A few days ago, I blogged about a talk provided by Phil Gilbert at the BPM2010 conference. In that talk, Phil made a compelling case that the smart people who are working on BPM systems and solutions are WORKING ON THE WRONG THINGS. It was …
Know what doesn’t come up in conversation all that often? The EA Body of Knowledge document, created by MITRE. Perhaps it is because the document really isn’t used in the commercial settings, or perhaps it is viewed as an overlap of TOG…
The field of Business Process Management is not a huge field, but I believe it to be an important one for empowering the transformation of businesses. As an Enterprise Architect, my mission is to accelerate that transformation. Therefore, t…
As my readers may know, I published a metamodel for business architecture about 18 months ago in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Calling it the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, I based my model on a combination of a number of standard an…