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George Frederick Watts
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Do Not Confuse Data Governance With Data Management
Last week, I participated in a roundtable during a conference in Paris organized by the French branch of DAMA, the data management international organization. During the question/answer part of the conference, it became clear that most of the audience …
Do not confuse data governance with data management
Last week I participated in a roundtable during a conference in Paris organized by the French branch of DAMA – the data management international organization. During the question/answer part of the conference, it became clear most of the audience was …
Making enterprise-architecture more tangible
Enterprise-architecture: it’s kinda abstract, isn’t it, most of the time? All those techie diagrams and so on, that only a techie would love…? Which may be one reason why it’s been so hard to get traction for EA outside of…
The game of enterprise-architecture
Given the parlous state of most current enterprise-architecture ‘education’, is there any way we could do it better? One option might be to reframe EA-education as a game. I don’t mean ‘gamification’ as per the asinine ‘boy-scout badges for enterprise-architects’…
How MDD brings business relevance to the PaaS space
It seems that we have past the top of the hype around Platform-as-a-Service. A good moment to assess how serious the adoption of PaaS is in the enterprise. The different PaaS flavours It’s a while ago that I tried to structure and categorize the different cloud approaches to clarify the different types of “cloud” that we see in todays market. I distinguished among 3 layers of Platform-as-a-Service (and some more layers that.
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HDN – Inference Engine driven Cognitive Computing
Prescriptive / Descriptive / Predictive Deductive / Inductive “Arguments based on Deductive / Inductive based on the Inferential “ Notational Computing / Semantic Algebra / Quantum Statistics Non – Predicated Intelligence Driven Data Science Platform![]()
How to Build a Roadmap – Gap Analysis Update
This update addresses a number of requests about the tools and methods I use to complete the gap analysis step from earlier posts in the series on How to Build a Roadmap. The update describes some quick Management diagnostic tools used across a wide variety of challenges encountered when developing a road map. Using these tools to perform the gap analysis delivers quick distinctive results and provides the key data and actionable insight needed to develop a meaningful road map.![]()
Presentation Chess and the Art of EA available on YouTube
I have given presentations of my story several times in the last years. From guest lectures at a university to conferences (3 hours) to presentations such as the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit (45 minutes). I’ve recorded an audio track with the … Continue reading →![]()
The art and science of engineering
This one’s about a simple SCAN crossmap that may be useful for making sense of what underpins engineering, and how it works the way that it does. (It also draws on the previous post about the nature of skills, and also…
Is the TOGAF User Group able to open up the standard? (ii)
TOGAF should “Say What It Does” while “Do What It Says”.