Skip to content
  • EA Voices
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Glossary

EA Voices

Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom

  • EA Voices
  • About
  • Contributors
  • Glossary

Architecture Building Block

The Infatuation with “Building Blocks”

April 13, 2015 by Ivo Velitchkov

Why the majority of Enterprise Architects are in love with the concept of “building block”. Perhaps because blocks don’t answer back and spoil the design, Aiden Ward suggested. In TOGAF 9.1 “building block” is used 349 times, not counting the separate use of ABB and SBB acronyms. There is a whole chapter devoted to building […]

Categories Architecture Building Block, Enterprise Architecture

Tags

#eavoices adm analysis Architect Architecture automation behavior blog Blogs business business it alignment career change Cloud community Culture Customer EA emergence enterprise Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture Management Financial Services glue google hardware marketing Microsoft Model Open Group Conference organisation PaaS paradigm platform podcast Power reference architecture research Service Software story tool trust Value vision

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Industry 5.0: Why Human-First AI and Smarter Automation Are Reshaping the Future of Industrial IoT
  • Your Architecture Data Has Blind Spots. Here’s How to Find Them. | Ardoq
  • The Open Group Summit Highlights – Oslo, – April 27 – 30, 2026
  • Why Most App Modernization Efforts Fail, and How a Capabilities-Driven Strategy Can Stop the Billion-Dollar Bleed
  • Why AI Pilots Fail to Scale
  • Where Enterprise Architecture Adds the Most Value
  • AI Agent Success Doesn’t Depend on the Tool, but the Architecture
  • Accenture Appoints Sripad Patil As Managing Director To Strengthen Enterprise Transformation Leadership
  • Product Managers Are the Cool Kids Now
  • Profiling Llanos Cuenca and Her Involvement in Women in Architecture
  • The Suite vs. Breed Debate Has Taken A New Twist. Here’s What Replaced It.
  • Visualize the future of your enterprise technology
  • The Architect Reborn
  • Why Scaling Products Without Architecture Slows You Down
  • FTC Sues Match, OkCupid Over Alleged Unauthorized Sharing of Millions of Users’ Personal Data
  • The AI-Native Enterprise: Rearchitecting Your GTM Stack for Agent-Driven Operations
  • After the Plan: How Portfolio Visibility Carries Strategy Through Delivery
  • AI Agent Success Doesn’t Depend on the Tool, but the Architecture
  • Architecture Work or Architecture Theater?
  • From Query Builder to Knowledge Engineer: The Architecture of Generative AI in Enterprise ERP
EA Fellows