Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
By Stuart Macgregor, CEO, The Open Group South Africa A packed agenda drew over 125 delegates to The Open Group Johannesburg Conference on 17 March 2015, the seventh to be hosted by The Open Group South Africa. The theme this … Continue reading →
[Embargoed for release on 01 April 2015] Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a strong dislike of the ‘layered’ architecture-concepts common in frameworks, notations and metamodels such as those embedded in TOGAF, Archimate and the like.…
Enterprise-architectures should, in principle, apply to any enterprise, at any scale. But what happens when we scale our enterprise-architectures up to the ‘really-big-picture’ (RBPEA) level, with a literally global scope? What non-negotiable constraints would we hit up against? What corollaries would…
TOGAF doesn’t explain in much detail how you actually go about producing an Architecture Vision or Roadmap, and this can be particularly difficult if the future is uncertain or turbulent. This case study shows how one European telecoms company used the idea of a strategic staircase to supplement TOGAF. Read the full case study: https://www.goodelearning.com/downloads/enterprise-architecture/the-strategic-staircase-case-study?
The conference is packed with workshops, keynotes and customer presentations covering the fields of enterprise architecture, business transformation, and compliance. As you know, QualiWare wants to be your preferred platform when you do enterprise architecture, process improvement, compliance management, application portfolio management, business transformation, and more. The conference program has therefore been designed to offer […]
The forthcoming IRM Enterprise Architecture Conference in London is always a good forum to hear what other people are doing in EA. Looking at the topics on the agenda is a good way to get a feeling for the direction that EA is taking. Here are the 5 takeaways that EA are listing for the…
The Open Group, the global vendor-neutral IT consortium, is hosting its latest event in Madrid April 20 – 23 2015. The event is set to build on the success of previous events and focus on the challenge of building a … Continue reading →
QualiWare Center of Excellence has Booth 1 at the annual Danish Government Digitalization Conference (#offdig) in Aarhus on 24-25 March. Rune Brodersen and John Gøtze will be available at the booth both days, so feel free to drop by for a chat. Or for a demo of some of our new offerings: Archimate OIOEA Capability models Business Model […]
Seems lots of people these days are writing about ‘the future of work’ – and even putting some of that thinking into practice, too. But is that thinking going anything like deep enough? Hmm… – not sure about that… So…
Enterprise Architecture is a young, immature discipline that produces models to guide the development of an enterprise. It is generally recognised to date back to the late 1980s or early 1990s and the work of Zachman, Spewak and others though it really took-off in the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century. But methodological disciplines do not emerge complete […]
This article by Selvyn Wright provides a good explanation about the use of Building Blocks in EA: http://www.irmuk.co.uk/articles/Selvyn_Wright_%20Building_Blocks.pdf?
Mike Rosen has written an interesting article about complexity and EA. He says: “There are many different reasons that organizations do architecture, but if we distil them all down to the essentials, architecture is fundamentally about managing complexity and change through structure…. change is just one part of the complexity that we have to manage…