defining story – EA Voices

11 years, 9 months ago

Orders of Agility

Two weeks ago, Ruth Malan (@ruthmalan) of Bredemeyer Consulting and contributing author to the Cutter Consortium commented in her online journal (being maintained since 2006 and recommended!) that between the metaphor used by Tom Graves (@tetradian) in Agility Needs a … Continue reading →

11 years, 11 months ago

Agility and Agile are Brand Names!

by Kris Meukens

In Enterprise Agility, an Attempt to Get to the Bone, I mentioned that agility and agile are not brand names although vendors would like the idea. Apparently, I was wrong. I admit the mistake! When reading all that is being … Continue reading →

11 years, 11 months ago

Architecture and the Remainder of Design

by Kris Meukens

In the one comment made to the earlier post Architecture in Context [Revision 1], different aspects are put forward that I also see as key elements in a defining story but in quite different ways as proposed. One, on which … Continue reading →

12 years, 3 months ago

Architecture in Context [Revision 1]

by Kris Meukens

Context carries tremendous importance in disambiguation of meanings as well as in understanding of the actual meaning of words. The word “architecture” is exemplary in this regard. So first I will focus on the contexts in which the word “architecture” is being … Continue reading →

12 years, 3 months ago

The Road to a Defining Story of Enterprise Architecture

by Kris Meukens

In my previous post, The Quest for All-Embracing Succinct Definition, I expressed the intention to build a defining story for enterprise architecture. The post received several encouraging comments that were most positive, constructive and challenging….

12 years, 4 months ago

The Quest for All-Embracing Succinct Definition

by Kris Meukens

Funny to observe how much effort has been spend lately in counter-arguing the arguments for having an all-embracing succinct definition of enterprise architecture. The message is that it is “not worth the effort” as there is no succinct definitio…