Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
I’ve often heard “soft” metaphors used when discussing Enterprise Architects. Some compare EA to the grease in a machine… necessary for the machine to run but we don’t provide the energy for progress so much as we reduce the friction.&#…
There is no question that businesses need Business Architects. There is no question that business architecture in an important set of activities. The question is, really, where do we get them? I’ve seen no lack of interest in this field….
This is an interesting question, and it depends on a lot of different kinds of answers. The business architecture team here in Microsoft IT has developed a set of services that they will offer to various customers, both within IT and in the busin…
Tom Graves, David Linthicum, and I recently got into an interesting discussion on Twitter as the result of a, EBiz blog post by David, where he makes the statement that Good SOA is the same as Good EA. (See ‘Do SOA and enterprise architecture now…
A few days ago, I blogged about a talk provided by Phil Gilbert at the BPM2010 conference. In that talk, Phil made a compelling case that the smart people who are working on BPM systems and solutions are WORKING ON THE WRONG THINGS. It was …
Know what doesn’t come up in conversation all that often? The EA Body of Knowledge document, created by MITRE. Perhaps it is because the document really isn’t used in the commercial settings, or perhaps it is viewed as an overlap of TOG…
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
Fitness of complex adaptive systems (CAS) is an area of research that I have been studying over the last few years, specifically how these systems are structured and how they behave.
One of the characteristics of a CAS …
As my readers may know, I published a metamodel for business architecture about 18 months ago in the Microsoft Architecture Journal. Calling it the Enterprise Business Motivation Model, I based my model on a combination of a number of standard an…
There are benefits to taking an idea from one domain and applying it to another. We all know of the famous case of “software patterns” that emerged from the concept of architectural patterns developed by Christopher Alexander for the world of…
Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium. We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…
Over the years, we architects have been taught to design systems that maintain equilibrium. We designed for service levels, deployed security countermeasures, and built complicated solutions to meet 100% of our requireme…