Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
How many layers are there in an enterprise-architecture? If we read any of the standard texts, you’ll see there are several popular answers. For example, Archimate says there are three: Business, Application and Technology. TOGAF says there are four: Business, Data,…
SEAS consulting team has completed Situation Analysis […]
This year I’m predicting more stealth enterprise architecture! I’d like to say that I invented this phrase, but I’ve found at least two previous uses: one in a comment by Peter Parslow in 2010; the other from Alec Blair, the head of Enterprise Architecture for Alberta Health Services, who described the journey of how his Read more
This year I’m predicting more stealth enterprise architecture! I’d like to say that I invented this phrase, but I’ve found at least two previous uses: one in a comment by Peter Parslow in 2010; the other from Alec Blair, the head of Enterprise Architecture for Alberta Health Services, who described the journey of how his …
The SEAS’ Consulting team participating in the AB […]
That’s a large part of what I do, I guess – planting trees, metaphorical and literal. Why? Well, perhaps the best reason for doing so is in a lovely tale I came across the other day. One of the Oxford…
Chronic underinvestment in IT is now more prevalent given the economic climate of the past few years. Excellent post on the critical concept of technical debt. Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it.Filed under: Business … Continue reading →
“Don’t anthropomorphise computers – they hate that!” – that was the text of a great graphic I found on Flickr, and that I’ve used in various slidedecks since. Yet might it actually be a good idea sometimes to do just…
Uh-oh, Ric Phillips is back… And I do mean that as a compliment! Too often, when people ‘get it wrong’, it’s because they haven’t bothered to read the description, or to think, or both. But when someone like Ric –…
A great question from Jeff Sussna, as a follow-on to my ‘manifesto‘ post: RT @jeffsussna: @tetradian question: can complex systems like your ‘enterprise’ actually be ‘architected’? And yeah, it’s also a tricky question, because a lot of any answer depends…
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? As is perhaps too usual in my writing, the full-length version of the ‘manifesto’ ended up, uh, kinda long……
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… So, what next? Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? At the least, time for a fairly major paradigm-change in how we view the…