Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Strategist’s position becomes more frustrating as a result.
Last week, our Open Digital Standards July 2021 event brought together vendors and end-user organizations from across the globe to discuss how the cross-industry development of open standards is helping businesses become digital-first. It was fantastic to have over 1,040 attendees from more than 90 countries gather virtually to discuss this critical roadmap to digital transformation.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) as an enterprise planning framework has its place and merits, yet it often falls short of real-world IT expectations. The traditional EA approach defines the to-be state architecture that may exist for a while but does not last long.
“Don’t it always seem to go / that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” – so sang Joni Mitchell in ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, way back in 1970. Seems appropriate about enterprise-architecture too… A quick recap about what’s …
Those who denigrate architecture as ‘only theory’ are seriously missing the point, because the role of architecture is theory – theory to guide the practice of design. Without theory to guide practice, all that we’d have is design that’s built on untested …
Good consultants do exist. But so do parasitic ones. This story is about why they happen and how to spot them.
Yes, I’ll admit it: that whole ‘retirement’ thing in the previous post was a euphemism for “Goodbye, ‘enterprise’-architecture, and (no) thanks for all the (lack of) fish”. Oh well. Yet where does this take us? Over on LinkedIn, Michael Cooke kindly asked …
The world has been getting a lot more complex, most…
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The idea of 2-speed IT has been doing the rounds for a while. It is now dying. But in a different way, it is actually a really important aspect of IT.
Last Thursday I hosted a new Webinar for Good e-Learning. If you missed it I believe you can still register to watch the recording. https://www.goodelearning.com/webinars/enterprise-architecture/using-togaf-to-implement-a-successful-ea?utm_source=Faceb…
Yikes! Just realised that it’s only three months from now that I’ll be seventy years old! Time to think about plans for retirement… yay! Though those plans are going to have to be kinda constrained, because, to put it bluntly, …
A note from the Editor: Regular visitors to the EAPJ…
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