Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Tom Graves What’s the real source of that infamous ‘business/IT divide’? And is there a way to bridge it? The answers would seem to be both complicated and complex – and might involve Einstein’s dice… At which point I probably ought to…
(Don’t worry: this is little more than a Public Service Announcement for those enterprise-architecture folks who are interested in the Cynefin framework.) From knowledge-management guru David Gurteen, I hear via Twitter that David Snowden is currently updating some of his…
The previous post on ‘Money, price and value in enterprise-architecture‘ was kinda long, so here’s a (somewhat) shorter summary: Background It’s fundamentally important that enterprise-architectures should incorporate the following assertions: there are many other forms of value besides money in…
To my mind, the way that most people seem to handle the relationships between money, price and value in enterprise-architecture and EA models is, frankly, an utter shambles. So let’s get a few things straight here: there are many other…
Continuing on from ‘Framework versus body-of-knowledge‘, the same colleague asked me for some notes on how we could apply quality-systems concepts to enterprise-architecture itself. Background to this is that perhaps a dozen years back, I was working at an engineering…
The LEARN principle extends the NEA principle of the internet to the context of global knowledge: Learning is everywhere. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it. Responsibility drives it. No-one possesses it. The NEA acronym stands for the maxim…
Re-reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto, to write a book-review for the current edition of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, it struck me that the SCAN frame provides a useful means to understand and describe the relationship between checklists and…
Over on LinkedIn, on the EA People list, Frank Guerino asked about EA tools: Question about EA Tools… What tools do you use to help you with EA tasks and why? What do you perceive their Pros and Cons to…
What’s the difference between a framework and a body-of-knowledge? A colleague asked me to write some notes on this, and it seems worthwhile doing so in more generally-available form – in other words, a blog-post. To me this is much…
Following on from the previous post ‘Rules, principles and the Inverse-Einstein Test‘, there’s an important corollary about real-time sensemaking and and decision-making – it was in my notes for the post, but I forgot to include it, so I’ll do…
It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction…
Yes, a very different look to this website: I’ve moved. (Well, in virtual-terms, anyway). I’d had long-running problems with my previous hosting-provider, and was running out of space there anyway, so it was time to move to something with a…