Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Richard Veryard #OMG #BAWG The Object Management Group Business Architecture Working Group has identified five key views of a business.
the Business Strategy view (“What the Business Wants”)
the Business Capabilities view (“What the Business Does”)
the Value Stream vi…
@mkplantes sees the demise of Kodak as an intelligence failure.
Put yourself in their Kodak leaders’ chairs for a moment and consider the four expectations of a leadership team and, more importantly, consider the speed with which they had to wo…
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
Steve Jobs talks about death”About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. … It turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.” [Stanford University, June 2005]
But accordi…
Google vs Amazon (again). @davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge’s rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for Amazon and now works for Google, despite the supposedly accidental publication of a long and opinionated rant (his wor…
#entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations where there are multiple conflicting values and policies, or multiple interpretations of What-Is-Going-On.
In this …
Most courses in business architecture (or any other methodology for that matter) start by teaching a set of generic principles, followed by a standard set of tasks and techniques. The tasks and techniques are then illustrated by some simplistic or cont…
I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…
I’m afraid I disagree with my friend @markhillary and countless others who have described Steve Jobs as a visionary. See for example Mark’s piece Steve Jobs Succeeded Against all the Odds (Huffington Post, 6 October 2011).
If you want a visionary from…
Wikipedia defines Consilience as the unity of knowledge (literally a “jumping together” of knowledge), which has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos, inherently comprehensible by logical process.
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#entarch @thepacketrat summarizes a presentation by @beamrider9 via @cgrant @cuttertweets
History is written by the victors. Ross Snyder, who describes himself as a code jockey at Etsy, recently gave an account of the evolution of Etsy’s technical arc…
Yesterday I was talking to a guy from a large media company about its social media strategy. The company is already successfully using social media for distributing and sharing content with its customers, but it doesn’t have as much corporate presence …