Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Much has been said about the general way that EA frameworks divides the world into different domains. Mostly “Architects” rant about the fact that in TOGAF there is the single domain “Business” that is said to “take care of everything not IT” and such. Let’s take a look at how the News profession classify the […]
Writing the Pitch! In the fifth iteration I’ve written a pitch to present the business idea as it would be presented to potential participants. The pitch answers the basic set of questions: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. The Pitch Welcome to Masters of the Trail 2012: For this nine-day event we are working […]
When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence of the architecture. use the LEGO Digital Designer to model the design. remember […]
I’m not going to deep dive into explanations here, but I had a discussion with a friend and in the end the things below came out. Make what you want of this. TOGAF 9 specification::31.8 Summary Risk Management is an integral part of enterprise architecture. Practitioners are encouraged to use their corporate risk management methodology […]
Not having a concept for “Location” that stands on its own when creating these EA models will almost certainly create opportunity for misunderstanding. A “usable” Location in any blueprint must always be an instance of the pure logical Location Concept. An instance of a Location as used in an Enterprise context generally carry attributes of […]
In work, the Chief Architect receives his instructions from the CEO, collects his team and focuses his resources. When in difficult situations, stay agile and work to seek out possibilities. In situations where high politics intersect, join hands with the stakeholders. Do not stay in dangerously isolated positions, remember it is not your architecture it […]
In work, the Chief Architect receives his instructions from the CEO. Having allocated the people, the Chief Architect must build the team by blending and harmonizing the different elements thereof before marketing their services. After that, comes tactical maneuvering to position the team as a high performing unit within the larger organization. The difficulty of […]
I’ve come to think that a BIG problem that stops organizations from actually harvesting the benefits from all the fantastic knowledge, services and products of its change suppliers is the fact that they are forced to act as integrators of domains outside of their defined business model. This is especially true when it comes to […]
This post is an early draft of a much larger writing. I’m not sure I’ll find the time to elaborate on this part so I’m brain dumping it here as is… I love to ride my MTB and I love to race. Another thing I do is deal with architects of different types (enterprise architects, […]
Enterprise Architecture is about having a structured way of finding the optimal configuration of resources and actions such that an expected value can be released. 
Link: http://enklare.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/togaf-9-vs-six-sigma-dmaic/ From Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture 00
The architects who are first in the field and awaits the coming of the problem, will be fresh for the task; the architects who are second in the field and has to react to the problem will be worn out by the task. Therefore the clever architect imposes his will on the problem, but does […]