Is EA A Strategy ~ Future of CIO
Re-blogged from http://futureofcio.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-ea-strategy.html Is EA A Strategy ~ Future of CIO.
Enterprise Architecture
TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Doesn’t Play Well With Others
In this post in the TOGAF demystification series I will talk about how well or not so well TOGAF plays with other frameworks in the industry. In my last post this topic was brought up and I see it on…
TOGAF Demystification Series: Comparing TOGAF to Other Frameworks
For the second post in the TOGAF Demystification series, let’s tackle the common topic of TOGAF to other frameworks. Over the years I’ve heard the debates between passionate EA’s and seen the seemingly endless posts on LinkedIn and blogs on…
Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks?
“TOGAF is not complex”. Its content is not, in fact it is rather bland, the form is though. It’s simply too large, consisting of sections that are not specific to architecture but overlap, unnecessarily, with other methodologies.
Building Enterprise Architectures with TOGAF 9 – Technical Whitepaper
We wrote up a technical whitepaper that summarizes TOGAF and how you can build, maintain, and gain return on investment on an enterprise architecture with our tooling — System Architect, Focal Point, RAM, and other IBM tools. The technical whitepaper – Building Enterprise Architectures with TOGAF 9 — is available for download for free, here: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/raw14241usen/RAW14241USEN.PDF […]
Culture Mapping Tool
Dave Gray posted on his blog that he has created a tool to help understand corporate cultures. This looks very interesting… I could see lots of uses for this tool as an Enterprise Architect. The typical stakeholder management only gets…
Three Best Practices for Successful Implementation of Enterprise Architecture Using the TOGAF® Framework and the ArchiMate® Modeling Language
How should we organize ourselves in order to be successful? An architecture framework is a foundational structure for developing a broad range of architectures and consists of a process and a modeling component. The TOGAF® framework and the ArchiMate® modeling language are two leading and widely adopted standards in this field. Continue reading →
TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete and Overly Complex
Do I have your attention now? Given this is the first post of the series about the myths, misconceptions, fiction and even some facts behind TOGAF I want to be open and honest about my affiliation with the Open Group….
Native Apps Part II: A Hybrid App
Not yet My app experiment now includes a build for iOS, and the app has been tested on my iPads. However, a certificate/mobileprovision file is needed to install the app on iPad/iPhone (and must be done through iTunes). I have submitted the app to the Apple App Store, where it is now under review. Getting …read more
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical…
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical acceptance and use of this principle has created a cargo-cult mentality.
Gunnar Hellekso has written a great article about the Cult of the Product.
Compulsory reading for every Enterprise Archi…
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical…
Buy-before-build is generally sound advice. But uncritical acceptance and use of this principle has created a cargo-cult mentality.
Gunnar Hellekso has written a great article about the Cult of the Product.
Compulsory reading for every Enterprise Archi…
TOGAF Demystification Series: Overview
A few weeks back I sat in on a TOGAF 9.1 training course that I had my team ramp up on. This training was two fold, up-level the knowledge of enterprise architecture team on EA methods and it also served…