Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As many of you have already have known, Enterprise Architecture and Architecture within the context of sociotechnical organization is going through what I believe a renaissance period. The architecture field is moving to more of an interdisciplinary art and science. Also many architects, myself included, have been trained on producing goal oriented systems. This teleological approach based…
How do we work with change – and, especially, extreme-change – in an enterprise-architecture? At the really big-picture scale? This is the fifth in a series of posts on principles for a sane society: Four principles for a sane society: Introduction Four principles: #1:…
I’ve only heard this one a few times but since this myth was recently referenced in one of the comments of the post, "TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete and Overly Complex" I thought it would be good to elevate…
Back in November 2012, as chief editor of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, I faced an ebb in qualified submissions and decided to postpone the next number. I solicited more submissions and soon decided that a way to make up for a missing number would be to release an extra thick “double-issue” – JEA XL. Almost …read more
In any case, EA does not equal TOGAF and vice-versa.
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…
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 →
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 […]
Re-blogged from http://futureofcio.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-ea-strategy.html Is EA A Strategy ~ Future of CIO.
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…
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…
“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.