Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
My humble apologies to John Godfrey Saxe, whose poem I have modified to add a seventh man, and to make a point… ‘twas seven men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind),…
By The Open Group Foreword By Allen Brown, CEO 2011 was a big year for The Open Group, thanks to the efforts of our members and our staff – you all deserve a very big thank you. There have been … Continue reading →
On December 1st we see the first revised TOGAF 9 specification since its release in 2009. This brings TOGAF to version 9.1 with 450 changes that addressed 400 comments from EA practitioners. This release promises downward compatibility to the TOGAF…
Recently, Patrick Gray blogged on TechRepublic that IT has a Chicken and Egg problem. In his post, he describes two mechanisms that CIOs take to become recognized as strategic leaders: a) work in anonymity to demonstrate that the work that they a…
I’ve observed what could be a trend in how people go about doing architecture for the enterprise. I’m not certain that this is an established trend, but I’ve asked around and apparently other people have noticed the same movement in their community. The trend would be doing domain architecture and relinquishing the effort of creating […]
I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering this question: What is a Roadmap? It’s been a fascinating series of discussions. One thing that strikes me is that most of the int…
Find the downloadable mindmap version (.mmap) on biggerplate.Filed under: Enterprise Architecture, Mind mapping Tagged: Architect, architecture, carte, Communication, EA, entarch, Enterprise Architecture, heuristique, Mind Manager, Mind mapping, mindma…
Early this morning, while glancing through the latest tweets on my iphone, I was attracted by last post from Richard Veryard on slideshare: Preamble Good slideshow though, but since I felt that it is going a bit in many different directions, I felt that I had to react on this one, directly on my blog to […]
I spent a few minutes this evening reading through Tom Graves’ fascinating post Management as ‘just another service’ and it got me thinking of Governance in the organic enterprise. As Tom describes, there are two paradigms of management at play:…
I just need to know the metamodel. That is a common request from users for the variety of metamodels deployed out of the box with System Architect. What is your DIV-1 and DIV-2 for DoDAF 2? What is your metamodel for TOGAF 9? What is your metamodel mapping for your SA-DOORS integration? Here’s one that […]
Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture. As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…
Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture. As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…