Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It’d be mid-evening by now, I guess, as I wander down to the platform for the tube-train home. As the train-doors open, there’s a cluster of mostly Asian lads down at this end of the train, happily joshing with each…
Okay, I admit it: I’m passionate. I care. To many people, though, it seems that those are considered to be major faults… Yesterday we had what’s called a General Election in Britain – the once-every-few-years opportunity for the populace to…
What are the real human needs? So far in this series on RBPEA (Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture), we’ve explored non-negotiable constraints imposed on us by Reality Department, and problems that are inherent in a culture that still actively promotes serious dysfunctionality in a…
An architecture may have a centre – in fact most types of architecture work best if there’s a central theme or parti. Yet the process of architecting must not have a single centre – and that distinction is crucial, especially as we…
By Stuart Boardman, Senior Business Consultant, Business & IT Advisory, KPN Consulting and Ed Harrington, Senior Consulting Associate, Conexiam As the world’s best known and most used Enterprise Architecture (EA) framework, it’s quite reasonable that TOGAF®, an Open Group standard, … Continue reading →
“Excuse me”, asks the quiet voice from the seat in front of me, “are you getting off at Colchester? Will you tell me when we get there?” I’m on the late-evening airport bus, on my way back home from the…
With the ongoing pressures from budget cuts, escalating demands and and aging workforce, we need to start looking at shared services models.
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This one came through from a colleague on the Twitterstream a couple days back, presumably somewhat channeling John Lennon: Imagine no possessions, we’d all love to see the plan And yeah, it’s a concern (complaint?) I get a lot about…
As soon as you, as an enterprise architect, want to address the problem of the complex Business-IT landscape, and you actually acknowledge in a discussion that Enterprise Architecture has come into existence because of the complexity of modern IT-laden landscapes, … Continue reading →
By Priya Patra, Sr. Manager at IGATE Global Solutions I have been an Agile Practitioner for years now, have been in many successful Agile executed projects. But as an Enterprise Architect I am somewhat skeptical about the fact how the … Continue reading →
TOGAF certification has become a de-facto baseline for endorsing the skills of an enterprise architect. But how does it really help you? This article looks at 5 things you can do, in addition to becoming TOGAF Certified, that will help you develop as an Enterprise Architect. Read the full article: https://www.goodelearning.com/downloads/enterprise-architecture/what-does-togaf-certification-really-mean-to-you?
This #eavoices post is the first in a series of n posts about enterprise architecture today and tomorrow. In this first post, I will dig into the EA Voices database and look for some trends. With 3.2 million words in over 5400 posts, written by 135 authors over the past 5 years, EA Voices is …