Enterprise Architecture state and causes in ten points
People don’t even know how an Enterprise Architecture looks like.
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People don’t even know how an Enterprise Architecture looks like.
The EA architect does not replace though the strategist, the business process man, the quality team… The architect just provide the tool, the context, the principles…
…the difference between functions, capabilities, processes, value streams, value chains… should be sufficiently clarified before even attempting to integrate them in the EA framework and whole
While the customers and stakeholders are not complaining, little can be done. This is the main reason for the lethargy of EA.
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There is much hype, few visible results and a great number of professionals who still ask what EA is and what is it for, even if they already “practice” it.
The state of frameworks is dire. Too many that do too little.
Frameworks like TOG…
In this post, I will show how architecture visualisation methods used by architects for centuries (see Drew Skau’s post Visualization Architect at Visual.ly) are relevant to an EA. I’ll exemplify the procedures on the FFLV-GODS, a full EA f…
It’s like the EA prefix is added to any other IT profession we know. In reality, the demand is for a multitude of roles housed selfishly under the EA banner.
After all, it is still the case today that the “company is the people” as EA describes, rather than “the company is the IT” as in EITA. But EITA delivers now, while the EA still promises.
Since an EA practice is successful if and only if it delivers the EA first, how would one define the certification criteria to validate the EA outcome if it is unclear what the EA delivers?
We have, obviously, the problem of regulating the EA profession. Currently, many do take EA training and certifications in the hope they’d improve their career prospects. But do they improve or guarantee the practitioners’ prowess to do the job?
Currently, there are too many EA frameworks that crowd the EA field, too many development approaches, too many insufficient metamodels… and too many parties that claim to hold the truth. Since the approaches or parties have little in common they bew…