IASA World Summit 2012 Conference
I wanted to let my readers know that I will be attending and preseting at the The Iasa World Summit taking place December 6th – 7th in Austin, TX. For those that are going or thinking of going and would…
Enterprise Architecture
Modernising Job Titles
HR Manager: What do you do? DB Designer: I work with databases. HR Manager: More specifically? DB Designer: I design them. HR Manager: Good, so you are an Architect! DB Designer: Well, yes you can put it that way, I guess. HR Manager: Who uses the databases you design? DB Designer: Many departments, in fact […]
SOA for Profits
If you look for a great book on how to deal with the implementation and adaption of an Service-Oriented Architecture the book SOA for Profits is what you are looking for. The book was published back in 2007 but is still highly relevant. The focus is on handling the needed interaction with stakeholders to collaborate […]
Helping Your Helpdesk
Over the past couple of weeks, our American University of Sharjah IT teams have been working on creating a simple Service Coverage Matrix. We found that we had a knowledge gap with the distributed IT support structure at AUS. Not everyone knew who was the primary and the secondary service support analysts for all the technology […]
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Where’s the best place for enterprise-architecture?
What’s the best kind of place to do enterprise-architecture and similar work? What are the best environments, for which parts of the work? And why? This was a fun set of questions that came up in my Twitterstream earlier this…
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 5: Enterprise Canvas
What frameworks do we need, to link across all domains and layers of the enterprise-architecture space? How can we create such frameworks? This is the fifth and final item in this series of worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to…
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 4: Context-space mapping and SCAN
What generic base-frameworks or base-metaframeworks do we need, to support sensemaking and decision-making across the full scope of enterprise-architectures? How do we create those frameworks in real-world practice? This is the fourth of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how…
The Cloud Infrastructure for Next-Generation – Big Data Computing
The device ecosystem is growing faster with the ready availability of gadgets for personal and professional use. The application landscape is on the climb with the addition of Cloud, social, mobile and sensor services. Amongst the most captivating technologies, the Cloud technology stands out. Continue reading →
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 3: Five Elements
What frameworks do we need to make sense of relationships, interdependencies and dynamics across the the whole of an enterprise? This is the third of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create…
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 2: Iterative-TOGAF
What methodology-frameworks do we need for broad-scope enterprise-architecture in a human-services government-department? This is the second of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create a tool that will help people make sense…
Metaframeworks in practice, Part 1: Extended-Zachman
What ontology-frameworks do we need, to make sense of the enterprise-architecture of a logistics-business? This is the first of five worked-examples of metaframeworks in practice – on how to hack and ‘smoosh-together’ existing frameworks to create appropriate tools to help…
Metaframeworks in practice: Introduction
If most of the frameworks we use in enterprise-architecture are ‘smooshed together’ from other frameworks, according to the needs of the context, then how do we do that ‘smooshing together’? More to the point, when and how and why should we…