How to recruit an Enterprise Architect
Clarify what the client wants, no matter the EA title, and recruit accordingly.
EA, SOA and other technologies
Why Enterprise Architecture stirs debates and sometimes, adversity
Enterprise Architecture stirs opposition because, in no special order, it:
.1. challenges the status quo by proposing change.
People fear change because it may affect their livelihood. EA, for instance,:
- uncovers duplications in platforms, projects…
- reveals the unnecessary variation in solutions adopted for essentially the same problem
- …
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Should an Enterprise Architecture code of conduct be introduced at all costs?
I am, like most true professionals, for a code of ethics, but I am against enforcing it at all costs, against all odds without sufficient proof of benefits for or even demand from the parties involved in a profession that currently suffers from a multi…
The EA code of ethics business case
For many professions, the question of benefits for clients and professionals or service providers versus the cost of implementation of a code of ethics should be first answered.
In the first place, an organisation to manage the code of ethics, members…
Is it right or wrong to have a code of ethics for EAs today?
Ethics is about rules of behaviour in a community that minimise the negative impacts of your actions on your fellow citizens.
The Enterprise Architecture style of “pink” leadership
In “Pink Architecture: New Technology Leadership” the author, Linda Cureton, CEO of Muse Technologies specializing in IT transformation, promotes the “pink” leadership in enterprise architecture, a style characteristic to women.
While…
Enterprise Architecture as the anatomy of three dimensional enterprise body
In the “Enterprise-architecture as hologram” Tom Graves explores a hologram paradigm for an EA representation.
Tom’s premise that in enterprise architecture “we don’t know what the information will be – all we know is that cou…
How Enterprise Architecture manages Complexity and Chaos
Complexity and chaos reduce the flexibility and agility of the enterprise and as such its ability to respond to market and business needs.
EA as a tool to manage and reduce enterprise Complexity and Chaos
Rather than approaching the subject from a scholastic viewpoint, I looked into the meanings we confer the terms in every day business talk which would reflect more closely out concerns.
Complexity, is the Latin denoting “entwined”, “t…
How to approach a business problem
On “Managing transformation: principles or methodology first?”
While I agree in general, I would say that the title is rather deceptive because principles are part of methodology rather than opposed to it. A framework may include inde…
The EA stereotypes, are they meaningful?
IASA’s blogs on “Phrases architects have to stop using”.
But should they?
1. “Serve the business” is true if you see IT as a service provider.
1.1 The business can and does increasingly select today external partners that provide ser…