Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Continued from previous post in response to the BIZZdesign’s reply.
See “The Value of Reference Architectures”.
I had to reply to this article because, I was surprised that, after decades of EA, the article somehow, succeeds to mix up such funda…
See this post of BIZZdesign on “The value of Reference Architectures”.
First, I’ll have to point out the distinction between reference architectures (such as Frameworx of TM Forum) and architecture frameworks (such as DoDAF…). since …
Technical debt, in the enterprise architecture context, measures the departure of the current enterprise organization from the good practices of enterprise architecture.
The more exceptions to the good rules of practice, the …
Who cares about architecture? Since the architecture concept comes to the enterprise from technology rather than business, it currently means little to the business people.
Is there a business architecture body of knowledge?The busines…
There is no recognized Capabilities framework in EA. Not to my knowledge, anyhow. Moreover there is still no agreement on what a capability is. The term has too many different meanings.
Hence, I would rather avoid the term “capability”.
The…
You often heard that “people make the company”. Where are then “people” modelled in an EA?
In an enterprise, the people organisation has a structure consisting of functions in interaction. Hence, for all means and purposes, the organisation…
Why are principles constituting so often a bottleneck for the EA activities or, soon after inception, are laid aside as an irritant better forgotten?
First of all, principles are, in essence, guidlines for decision making. They g…
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We keep talking about EA without having in mind a common picture. A show case could be employed to this purpose, as a common reference.
What an EA show case should exhibit though?
An EA show case is an working EA made public th…
Top managment sets a vision. That is, a big picture they see the enterprise evolving to. But so (should) do the departments for their own functions. For instance, technology may have a vision. Human Resources may have one etc.
In doing EA one ha…
EAs exist indeed, even though, in many cases, EA is seen as a policing activity rather than a specific outcome such as the blueprint of the enterprise.
Still, while there are various reasons that samples are not turned into showcases, the situation is …
Few EA developments cover the whole enterprise and few, indeed, if you listen to the discussion fora, are EA developments that result in the EA as an integrated blueprint of the entire enterprise.
The multiple definitions of EA and its scope are…
A full EA consists of the integration of the Business, Technology and People/Organisation architectures.