Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
(Note: I’ve added an addendum to this post)
It has been many years that we have lived with the concept of technical debt. Martin Fowler did a good job of describing the concept in a 2003 article on his wiki. Basically, the idea is that you …
What’s the last stage of learning any skill? Answer: ya gotta teach it… And that’s exactly what I’ll be doing down in Australia, starting late next month. Some while ago I said that at last I’d Got Round To It…
By Dr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group The Open Group published a White Paper on Open Platform 3.0™ at the start of its conference in Amsterdam in May 2014. This article, based on a presentation given at … Continue reading →
I’ve commented on the questionable ethics of some consultants previously, but something I witnessed recently prompts me to revisit the issue. In the last three or so years in particular I suspect that I’ve witnessed, initially unnoticed, a growing tendency for consultancies to see clients’ projects increasingly in terms of cash flow and less as […]
In this article of HBR, Roger Martin argues that “Strategy is iterative protyping”. Is it really so?If strategy is considered at the product level prototyping is rather normal practice. In any serious enterprise, there usually are different e…
I am frequently appalled by the lack of rigor in this craft and this has been recently highlighted to me by a linguistic habit that I suspect comes from a younger generation. ( Sorry guys feel free to have a hack at the old bastard!) That is the use of the answer Yes/No to a […]
How do we ‘sell’ enterprise-architecture? What’s it worth, in terms of value, and of price? What could or should we charge for our work? This series is a bit of ‘thinking aloud’ about our work, and how we apply our…
By Mark Skilton, Professor of Practice, Information Systems Management, Warwick Business School Does digital technologies raise quality and improve efficiencies but at the same time drive higher costs of service as more advanced solutions and capabilities become available demanding higher … Continue reading →
The book ‘Data Center 2.0 – The Sustainable Data Center’ (ISBN 978-1499224689) is now available on Amazon. Given the complexity of the ‘data center supply chain’, the number of stakeholders that are involved and the issues that are at stake, data … Continue reading →
What is the connection between enterprise architecture and something technical as data centers? In one of his blogs Tom Graves, a well known enterprise architect, is discussing the needs of enterprise architect clients. According to Tom: “What paying-folks in business … Continue reading →
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How do we ‘sell’ enterprise-architecture? How do we explain what it is that we do – and why we do it? This series started as a bit of ‘thinking aloud’ about work, and how we apply our work, and how…