Is TOGAF incomplete, complex and sucks? Second installment
In any case, EA does not equal TOGAF and vice-versa.
Enterprise Architecture
Four principles – 3: Money doesn’t matter
What’s the real role of money within design for an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? [Apologies, folks: this one’s turned out to be really long, even by my usual standards – but unfortunately this theme is so darn controversial that it really does need the…
On Demand Broadcasts from Day One at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach
Since not everyone could make the trip to The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach, we’ve put together a recap of day one’s plenary speakers. Stay tuned for more recaps coming soon! Continue reading →
Planning the contribution of the leader among architects
In an earlier post I’ve laid out the Wheel of Leadership as a tool for the leader among architects. In this post I’ll visualize some of the approaches one can have as one employ the Wheel of Leadership. Pure forward flow In the pure forward flow each part of the wheel of leadership is addressed […]
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.
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….