Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
What would make something ‘anti-fragile’? And how could we support that in our enterprise-architectures? Over the past few months I’d noticed various references to Nassim Taleb‘s recent work on ‘antifragility‘, but had largely dismissed as just a made-up term for…
In part 1 of a three-part series, The Open Group Vice President of Skills and Capabilities Len Fehskens discusses how our vocabulary affects the way we conceptualize Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture and their relationship. Continue reading →
Just how restricting – 0r even dangerous – is our seeming ‘need’ for certainty? Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been exploring links between the SCAN sensemaking / decision-making framework and Cynthia Kurtz’s more socially-oriented Confluence sensemaking-framework. I still…
What’s the trend? What’s going to be the New Normal, in business and elsewhere? Perhaps it’s just that time of year when people indulge in pointless ‘predictions’, but I’ve been seeing lots of articles recently that something-or-other either is or…
Every IT leader at one point or another will be asked to conduct project assessments. Sometimes it is a project that was initiated by your department and others it is a project that was started in a different part of your organization. Rarely are successful projects reviewed (even though we should, as we are missing […]
The post An Approach To Project Assessments appeared first on Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education.
The next Open Group Conference will be held in Newport Beach California taking place January 28 through 31st. Looks to be a lot of great speakers. The conference theme is “Big Data – The Transformation We Need to Embrace Today”…
The Open Group is busy gearing up for the Newport Beach Conference. Taking place January 28-31, 2013, the conference theme is “Big Data – The Transformation We Need to Embrace Today” and Early Bird registration is now open! Continue reading →
People don’t even know how an Enterprise Architecture looks like.
When is Bike not a Business Rule.:
It’s an unexceptional and foundational principle that governance is about behaviour.
But behaviour is about intentions.
Governance machinery that focuses on behaviour to the exclusion of intentions destroys value.
As this great story of the little bike that wasn’t, from Tom Graves illustrates so well.
When is Bike not a Business Rule.:
It’s an unexceptional and foundational principle that governance is about behaviour.
But behaviour is about intentions.
Governance machinery that focuses on behaviour to the exclusion of intentions destroys value.
A…
You can’t go wrong if you follow the rules, right? But what happens when you come across something where the ‘rules’ don’t make sense – and yet you still try to hold on to the certainty of ‘the rules’? Or,…
Gartner has released yet another great resource for Enterprise Architects with their EA Tools Magic Quadrant. The full report can be found here: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1CVXD3X&ct=121119&utm_content=c26292b9-8692-4afe-9fec-28e9315d6a34 For those that have already selected an EA tool and are looking to find out how…