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Why did I become an Enterprise Architect?

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You meet someone new. They ask you what you do… I say, “I’m an Enterprise Architect”, and this usually gets the conversation off to a difficult start, because the next question about what is an enterprise architect can be a tricky one. But on this occasion the response was: why did you become an Enterprise Architect? Well I…

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Going Digital & Agile Architecture

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Recently, I’ve been reworking & tightening up some earlier ideas and putting them in a ‘Going Digital’ context. I’m posting them on LinkedIn to reach a slightly different audience.  
Here are the posts so far:
During the process, I’ve been reading/re-reading some great related articles that discuss agile architecture and the need recognise the business as a complex adaptive system. Here are the links with some favourite quotes:
Is Agile killing EA #1?  By Charles Betz “the EA team needs to match the cadence of the Agile teams. This is a central challenge”.
Is Agile killing EA #2?  By Jason Bloomberg.
” …if some company’s EA means nothing more than a lot of paperwork that gets in the way of basic goals like working software that keeps customers happy, then we can only hope Agile drives a nail into that coffin. On the other hand, sometimes the paperwork is a good thing. Only an overly dogmatic reading of the Agile Manifesto would lead one to conclude that we don’t need no stinkin’ documentation”.
“Frameworks are cocaine for executives – they give them a huge rush, and then they move to the next framework”.
Enterprise Architecture Finally Crosses the Chasm by Jason Bloomberg including an interview with Adrian Cockcroft formally the Cloud Architect at Netflix. 
“The goal of architecture was to create the right emergent behaviours”.
“..it makes more sense for them to pay most attention to the real-world  ‘wiggliness’ of organisation: the hidden, messy and informal dynamics of everyday human interaction in which they and everyone else are continuously immersed”.
With the ‘Going Digital’ series, my aim is talk about real-world experiences and emerging techniques for doing “agile architecture’, or business change design, or whatever it gets called in the future. All I know is that it isn’t framework-centric and that many who carry the title Enterprise Architect will have trouble giving up their particular drug of choice! I’m interested to hear what others are doing; what’s working for you – and what doesn’t.
I guess like many of have lived with the ‘EA’ label, I’m tending to avoid the term, so as not to confuse what I do with the framework-centric, heavy modelling, and ‘certified’ practices stuff.
Has anyone seen a good job description? 🙂 

 Update Feb 27th, 2017: To see where these thoughts now are going, please take a look at the Found In Design un-book and  the Horses and Unicorns story.

TOGAF ADM Planner – An Interactive Resource | Good e-Learning

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Here is another useful TOGAF resource from the Good e-Learning site: TOGAF ADM Planner – An Interactive Resource Getting to grips with the ADM can be daunting – there are so many steps within the complete set of Phases, and if you are new to TOGAF you may find it difficult to get an overall…

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The danger of silo architecture

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Architecture, especially business architecture, often happens in isolation as we always work in an open ever changing system, however the business case for architecture is to close the gap of isolation. Usually the easiest way is to avoid this isolation is by setting standards and governance. However the same standards are often those that are … Continue reading The danger of silo architecture →

Context-perspectives and enterprise-architecture maturity

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In what ways does what we do within the enterprise require a different perspective on the enterprise itself? In what ways does our maturity-level – our skills, competence and experience – affect what we can and should do within the…

Enterprise Architects Must Prepare Their Organizations to Manage Big Data

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The top Internet companies have long used highly scalable technologies to manage massive amounts of data. Enterprise architects must help their organizations transition to these technologies so they can benefit

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