Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
“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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Currently, the political situation in the United States is similar to the political chaos in the 1850s—moving toward the Civil War. Like the Civil War, it is a war between economic architectures, “crony” capitalism and Marx’s Communism.&nbs…
Towards Measuring Success of Enterprise Architecture Decisions: Survey among Practitioners…
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I am proposing a way to ‘measure’ the ‘understanding’ the top of an organisation has — how capable it is of making informed strategic decisions — on a subject, e.g. legal, finance, or what is my particular interest: IT.