Roger Evernden

New EA Training Course

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I’ve just published a new on-line course called: Enterprise Architecture: Why we need it – an introduction. This is now available on Udemy. Because the course is brand new I’m offering a special promotional price for the course. It is available for only £29 instead of the usual price of £45. There are only 50 discounts available…

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EA Frameworks or Ontologies?

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How do we get the best out of EA frameworks and ontologies?If you are interested in improving our use of EA frameworks, you might find my latest post on LinkedIn interesting: EA Frameworks or Ontologies? Do you think that the terms frameworks, ontologies, taxonomies, schema are often confused? Do you ever feel that there is a better…

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The Role of EA in an Age of Terrorism

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Clearly we live in a world where terrorism is a major global threat. So when the Cutter IT Journal team asked me for my thoughts about technology trends and predictions for 2016, I started thinking about the role of enterprise architecture (EA) in an age of terrorism. Terrorism can affect any enterprise at any time, Read more

The Role of EA in an Age of Terrorism

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Clearly we live in a world where terrorism is a major global threat. So when the Cutter IT Journal team asked me for my thoughts about technology trends and predictions for 2016, I started thinking about the role of enterprise architecture (EA) in an age of terrorism. Terrorism can affect any enterprise at any time, Read more

Emergent or Directed

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Do we need to manage architectural evolution?Do we need to consider different forms of EA practice to handle architectures that emerge, rather than ones that we directly control? Find out more in my latest post on the Cutter Blog: Emergent or Directed – do we need to manage Architectural Evolution? You might also find some of my…

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The EA Meta Framework

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Instead of creating yet more architecture frameworks, EA practitioners need to collaborate more to describe the EA meta-framework – the underlying foundation that is common to every EA framework and approach. Roger Evernden

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Levels of Understanding

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What is distinctive about architectural thinking?I’ve been meaning to write a summary of the Levels of Architectural Understanding for some time. Finally I got around to it. You can read the post on LinkedIn Pulse: Levels of Architectural Understanding. Understanding is one of the eight fundamental factors in EA.

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Systems and EA

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How does systems thinking really apply to enterprise architectureOne of the things I like most about the festive season is the chance to reset – there’s space and time to think about what happened in the previous year, what the future might bring, and most of all – time to spend with the special people in your…

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Enterprise Transformation through Enterprise Architecture 2016-01-05 12:40:22

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Architecting change is a holistic, systemic, big picture approach!   It is holistic in the sense that it covers information about everything, including infrastructure, information, process, knowledge, organization design, skills, and resources. This is an ambitious claim, but it is the information that is united through EA, which then makes it easier to manage the…

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Upgrading the EA Role

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Why the EA role is changingLate last year I wrote a post on the Cutter Blog, entitled EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role, as part of the Cutter predictions series. A recent comment asked said that “EA is mainly perceived as IT discipline and so far largely failed to establish Business Capability Evolution…

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A Meta Framework

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It is probably true to say that every book has one major theme running through it, and probably a few sub-themes. Writing the second edition of a book is a great opportunity to revisit its primary topic to see whether it is still relevant or not. I found it really interesting to revisit the book I wrote with Elaine over ten…

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