Do not Stop-Start your EA
By stopping EA deliberately, we disrupt EA at our own enterprise risk. EA is like a city map where we have to continually update the plans because of new constructions and roads, demolitions,expansion, repairs…
Enterprise Architecture
Who you gonna call? Trustbusters!
Suppose you are in a meeting. You, the Enterprise Architect of the EA Chess kind. You are aware of many complexities, uncertainties, hair-ball like integrations and other ‘technical debt’ in your landscape, and you don’t have the habit of underestimating … Continue reading →
Should we Stop-Start our EA every two years or so? (iii)
What if we apply the advice at the enterprise level? If it does not work properly why not starting it again, from scratch?
Enterprise Patterns – Free Template
Enterprise Patterns are one of the most useful tools for the EA team to have emerged in recent years. They are a great way to document an aggregate view of the constraints of a current architecture, or the capabilities that are enabled by a target architecture. TOGAF provides a brief outline of the content of…
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What’s the scope of a business-model?
I’ve long been a fan of Alex Osterwalder’s work. There can be no doubt that he’s had a huge impact on business-architecture – particularly for startups – with tools such as his Business Model Canvas [BMCanvas] and, more recently, Value…
Should we Stop-Start our EA every two years or so? (ii)
EA is a full time and permanent job exactly because of enterprise change.
The EA should not be modelled during a transformation but before any transformation.
Should we stop-start our EA every two years or so?
To start and stop the EA function every so often reminds me of Windows we used to turn on and off to make it work.
Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2015
QualiWare will be at the Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2015 in London on 15-18 June 2015. Kuno Brodersen participates in a panel session about How Practitioners and Vendors can Co-create Value from the Succesful Application of EA Tools. John Gøtze will speak together with Milan Guenther about Models that Matter. Our customer Statoil will speak about A […]
An acronym for (enterprise) effectiveness
What’s a quick way to keep reminding ourselves about effectiveness in the enterprise, and that tagline of “things work better when they work together, on-purpose”? My suggestion for this is the somewhat-contrived acronym LEARN: eLegant – clarity, simplicity, consistency, ‘feel’, self-adapting…
A tagline for enterprise-effectiveness
What’s a simple tagline that we can use to help guide conversations about enhancing of enterprise-effectiveness? My own preference is this: things work better when they work together, on purpose. Okay, I’ll admit that that doesn’t quite give us the full…
Shifting IT Operating Models
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…
Shifting IT Operating Models
Just came across an interesting post by Colin Bannon, CTO BT this morning. The infographic which he has shared compares and contrasts the Old or a more traditional operating model of IT with a new, evolving operating model of IT. While I have…