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By The Open Group This is part two in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading →
Back on the toolsets theme, what’s the Why behind all this focus on a new type of toolset? Why won’t the existing toolsets do the job? In practice, the core concern is as per the previous post ‘Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting…
While in every day operations the lack of proper management practices is easy to conceal, this would most likely fail the company at its first large transformation.
By The Open Group This is part one in a two part series. Professional development and training is a perpetually hot topic within the technology industry. After all, who doesn’t want to succeed at their job and perform better? Ongoing … Continue reading →
Strategy+Business has just published an interesting article about how companies are making data a source of sustainable growth. It’s not a new topic – data architects have long recognized the need to treat data as a treasured corporate assets. The article is called “The Quantified Self Goes Corporate”
The division of labour has been the main principle for structuring organisations in the last two centuries. That is still the dominant approach for allocating resources, information and power in companies and public institutions. The new dynamics in a connected world have revealed a rich spectrum of problems related with these structures ranging from ineffective coordination to […]
Four useful articlesThe IRM newsletter often covers contemporary EA topics. The latest issue (January 2015) has four articles, including one that I’ve written that provides a step-by-step guide to using Enterprise Patterns: Real World Business Processes: There is No Such Thing as a Bad Example – “After the Fire Alarm”, Roger Burlton We Want to…
Meta-this-that-and-the-other – metamodels, metaframeworks, metamethodology, metatheory, even metatools? What is all this stuff about ‘meta-‘? And what is ‘meta-’, anyway? One answer is that it’s about a kind of recursion that we often need in our work, in which something is applied to…
By The Open Group John Zachman’s Zachman Framework is widely recognized as the foundation and historical basis for Enterprise Architecture. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, during The Open Group’s San Diego 2015 event, Zachman will be giving the morning’s keynote address … Continue reading →
Knowing the seven parts of the TOGAF documentation is very useful – for navigating and finding your way around the documentation, for the exam and in day-to-day use of TOGAF. This poster from GeL summarizes how the seven parts of TOGAF fit as the filling between the Business Vision and Drivers, and Business Capabilities.
“Yes, we need theory in enterprise-architecture”, people will often say to me, “but which theory should it be? Should it be quantitative, everything defined in terms of metrics? Or should it be qualitative, and forget about metrics entirely? Which one…
What’s the role of theory in enterprise-architecture? Could there be such as thing as ‘the theory of enterprise-architecture’? Can we use that theory, for example, to separate useful EA models from useless ones? It seems that Nick Malik thinks so, as per…