EA, SOA and other technologies
Is there an Enterprise Architect Paradox? Surely is.
My advice: discard the title of EA. Find what what the employer wants and recruit accordingly.
What should an Enterprise Architecture maturity framework consider?
Even if a process delivers EA, the application of EA, may be lacking because of its poor sell, communications and as such, lack of adoption. So the benefits would not be realised.
Enterprise Architecture relation to Security and the Cloud
A security architecture would have to be build around the EA.
While IT architecture diminishes in importance,the EA, as such, would
Do stakeholders fear EA taking over? They do.
The framework is the EA glue, it holds the EA together.
The framework helps conquer the enterprise complexity by enabling the business domains of the enterprise to deliver enterprise level outcomes while still focusing on their own fields.
Five not-so-recommendable practices for Business Architects
The big problem is that today Business (Enterprise) Architecture practices exist without ever creating business blueprints.
Don’t ban the word “alignment” from your architecture
Alignment though essentially means transforming the enterprise (technology for instance) to perform what the business needs on an operational, tactical and strategic scale.
The brand new “Enterprise Architecture matters blog” book, just Kindled
Just published this brand new book “The Enterprise Architecture matters blog” on Amazon Kindle.
It is a collection of blogs on Enterprise Architecture (EA) I posted to during the last few years. I blogged, constantly, since the very beginning of…
Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks? Second installment
In any case, EA does not equal TOGAF and vice-versa.
Enterprise Architecture is not aimed at creating models. Is that so?
Architecture, in general, is about models. Hence, enterprise architects are to devise architecture, that is to model the enterprise. If you don’t do that, then you are not doing architecture.
Zachman’s is neither a framework nor an ontology, it is a development process
The vertical dimension describes the system development process beginning with the objectives establishment and conceptual design and ending with the Implementation.