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Nigel Green I was very pleased to hear recently that one of the VPEC-T design patterns that we originally developed for Criminal Justice has been put to further good use: A group in UK government have been reviewing the activities and information sharing needs …
Below is a presentation on our thinking framework that I gave to http://www.scio.org.uk/
SCiO is a group for systems practitioners and is based in the UK, but has members internationally. It is focused primarily on systems practice and practiti…
This post was inspired by Anna Mar’s post: http://simplicable.com/new/live-your-enterprise-architecture-dream
The attached pdf describes eight flavours of the Enterprise Architect (I added one to Anna’s original seven) tweaked the word…
Here’s my ‘VPEC-T Scan Lite’ …VPEC-T’ing the 5Di websiteValuesAdded ‘First Engagement’ wording up-front to demonstrate we align Values of the CIO and Chief ArchitectMore focus on What we do than How we do it!Greater consideration for Management Th…
… is it less important, or even unhelpful? Some say the EAs goal is to ‘simplifiy’ the IT solutions to the business requirements, but there’s a catch with that mantra – some solutions may add ‘useful complexity’. There are situations, for example,…
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The top half focuses on flexibility and the bottom robustness. The four corners are from the Cynefin system typology. The each box is labeled by the essential characteristic of a ‘System’ – the idea is you can map chunks of business capability/fun…
I recently developed and presented this table to a group of EAs and IT execs. It has generated a fair bit of useful discussion so far, so I thought I’d share it more widely . Builds and observations most welcome.
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I’m seeing a growing CxO level demand for removing unwanted complexity and increase business response to change (agility) in IT and business operations with my clients. They’re frustrated by the lack of visibility of the structural (archive rural) a…
I was impressed with Cathay Pacific Airways have created a set of metrics for measuring Enterprise Debt and was struck by the fact they’d omitted the word ‘technical’ from the description. I think the debt metaphor is very powerful for explaining why businesses should pay attention to architecture but I do feel we should not only consider the technical debt, we should also understand the ‘debt’ created by ill-considered processes and hard-to-grasp strategies (all part of EA IMO). Some questions I’m pondering:
What would a 360 degree set of metrics for Enterprise Debt look like? Would VPEC-T analysis help? How can we create a board level visualisation of ED and make a a key tool for a ‘Managing Complexity’ agenda and guide decision-making when designing business change?
All thoughts for my long flight home at the end of the week.
Here’s a link to a piece from my friend Charles Edwards on Enterprise Technical Debt that added to my thoughts:
http://www.agileea.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110:what-is-enterprise-technical-debt&catid=51:enterprise-architecture-&Itemid=54
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