Philip Allega

IT Market Clock is Here: Enterprise Architects Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!

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Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within.  Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace.  Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be […]

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IT Market Clock is Here: Enterprise Architects Get Ready, Get Set, Get to Work!

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Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within.  Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace.  Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be […]

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The Rhetoric of “EA is Dead” is Dead: EA has Arrived at the Leadership Table

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In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”?  […]

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The Rhetoric of “EA is Dead” is Dead: EA has Arrived at the Leadership Table

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In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”?  […]

John Zachman is Dead, Long Live John Zachman

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Typically, the world of EA is boring. In this last few weeks, all bets are off as John Zachman goes to court and questions are raised about the near term and long term effects to the commercialization of EA Frameworks and the EA certification marketplace. It’s still early days, but challenges from the “father of EA” require consideration.

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John Zachman is Dead, Long Live John Zachman

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Typically, the world of EA is boring. In this last few weeks, all bets are off as John Zachman goes to court and questions are raised about the near term and long term effects to the commercialization of EA Frameworks and the EA certification marketplace. It’s still early days, but challenges from the “father of EA” require consideration.

Business Architecture is Part of Enterprise Architecture

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A common misperception being hyped in EA circles concerns the notion that business architecture is something different from enterprise architecture. This is a blatant attempt to classify EA as something only applicable to IT when, in fact, EA is applicable to the ENTERPRISE that covers numerous viewpoints for stakeholders, including business, information, technology and solution […]

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Business Architecture is Part of Enterprise Architecture

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A common misperception being hyped in EA circles concerns the notion that business architecture is something different from enterprise architecture. This is a blatant attempt to classify EA as something only applicable to IT when, in fact, EA is applicable to the ENTERPRISE that covers numerous viewpoints for stakeholders, including business, information, technology and solution […]

If You Are Only Talking “Architecture”, You Don’t Know Squat

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Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking.  And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about.  The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards […]

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If You Are Only Talking “Architecture”, You Don’t Know Squat

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Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking.  And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about.  The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards […]

Future State First, Current State Last

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Leo de Sousa shared a blog that covered his experience of doing the current state first, supporting Adrian Grigoriu’s response to my posting last week entitled Applying EA to Your Life .  I do, in fact, support the contention that current state is an “input to gap analysis” and is “useful for benchmarking”, but I would […]

Applying EA to Your Life

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Recently, I was asked to help a friend out.  The conversation began with a grand vision of where this person saw himself in a year’s time.  I was excited by the vision and we discussed what it would feel like once he was there, what he would with his time, his money, and how wonderful […]

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