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Enterprise Architecture and Lean Thinking: Part One

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Prior to joining Gartner, I was an Enterprise Architect practitioner for a Fortune 100 enterprise that embraced Lean Thinking. The principles of driving both business-outcome driven EA and holistic technology implementations across value streams was something I got really good at. I found joy in enterprise programs that came with big hairy audacious goals (BHAG) for […]

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Dialog versus Discussion

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There are subtle differences between a dialog and a discussion that many enterprise architecture and technology professionals may not fully appreciate. For purposes of this discussion, I have included a table that should help provide clarity on their distinction. Dialog Discussion  Starts with listening  Starts with speaking  Is about speaking with  Is about speaking to  Focuses […]

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Dialog versus Discussion

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There are subtle differences between a dialog and a discussion that many enterprise architecture and technology professionals may not fully appreciate. For purposes of this discussion, I have included a table that should help provide clarity on their distinction. Dialog Discussion  Starts with listening  Starts with speaking  Is about speaking with  Is about speaking to  Focuses […]

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Looking for Case Studies on Polyglotism

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As a Gartner analyst, I have the opportunity to interact with many enterprise architecture teams looking to improve their approach to architecture governance. The one software development trend I am seeing grow without an accompanying architecture viewpoint is the rise of polygotism. In any software development lifecycle, time to develop software is a dominant factor […]

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So, It’s Not That Easy

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When EA was first introduced to me, I got my head-bulb lightened. Like ‘ting’. This might be the one I was really looking for. Excitement flourished in my head without entertaining a question at the corner of my mind. What is this?On my previous p…

Open Group’s debate on architecture reuse

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Open Group’s User Group’s debate on architecture reuse closed to a draw. Yet, that helps no one. Perhaps, the issue should have been adjudicated once for all in the TOGAF standard rather than in a users debate.
In fact, TOGAF’s Architecture Contin…

All your boards are belong to us

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There is a point where unmanaged complexity becomes prionic.At that point a crystalline logic takes over, and every thing that touches the tangle becomes transformed by the tangle to be a new part of the tangle.That includes all attempts to control it….

All your boards are belong to us

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There is a point where unmanaged complexity becomes prionic.

At that point a crystalline logic takes over, and every thing that touches the tangle becomes transformed by the tangle to be a new part of the tangle.

That includes all attempts to control it. 

At this point governance is a fools errand. 

Your architecture review boards and your IT strategy boards will be assimilated.

(Photo: Complicated, Marco/Zak, 2007, some rights reserved)

Can Document Review Inquiry help improve Enterprise Architecture Outcomes?

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Do you know what a Document Review Inquiry is? Sadly, I didn’t know what one was until I joined Gartner. After interacting with Gartner analysts over dozens of years while working at various Fortune 100 enterprises, I never came to appreciate how much more effective I could have been if I only had known about […]

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