Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Chris Potts will return to Denmark on 24-25 January 2013 to give an exclusive seminar: Driving Business Innovation & Performance With Enterprise Architecture: How to be a Highly-Influential Enterprise Architect. Chris Potts has just published the last book in his trilogy of business novels: “FruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology”, “RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary …read more
I ran across a really good high-level Enterprise Architecture video last week and thought I would share. It’s brought to us by ArchimateMusings blog. This looks to be a video that his company created to articulate EA’s overall function and…
Within a 15 minute walk of Camp Nou (home of FC Barcelona), The Open Group Conference “kicked off” on Monday morning with some excellent plenary presentations. You can see most of these Big Data presentations for yourself on The Open Group’s Livestream page. Continue reading →
What happens when other people take our cautious ‘It depends…‘ as an explicit Yes or No? What are the risks that we face as enterprise-architects when others force us to give a definite ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in relation to something that’s…
Why is it that some mornings start with a flood of ideas, each of which demand a blog-post that would take a day or more to research and write? Sigh… Hence a quick metablog – a post about things I’m…
How do we use sensemaking-models in enterprise-architecture? What’s different about this discipline that can so often cause such use to become problematic? I know I need to move on to more of that current series on power and politics in enterprise-architecture,…
…the difference between functions, capabilities, processes, value streams, value chains… should be sufficiently clarified before even attempting to integrate them in the EA framework and whole
It is your Circus, and it’s always your Monkey:
@elbanoitca says: There is a Polish expression for not my problem which translates literally as, “Not my Circus, Not my Monkey.”
Maybe, if you are a project manager. Never if you are an enterprise architect.
It is your Circus, and it’s always your Monkey: @elbanoitca says: There is a Polish expression for not my problem which translates literally as, “Not my Circus, Not my Monkey.”
Maybe, if you are a project manager. Never if you are an enterprise archi…
How do we make sense of story – the stories and narratives and anecdotes that people tell each other and themselves about their world? How can we link between the layers of story to help us make sense of some…
Possibly one of the most common questions I get with regards to TOGAF is finding a good sample set of templates. Luckily the Open Group has a set that you can download that is quite extensive. Personally they aren’t the…
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2
Larry Wall, author of the PERL programming language once said,
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen. You’d think that would also be obvious. Instead, we’re taught to express ourselves.
People speak with intent. Good communication means responding to someone’s intention, not their words.
Speak (and write) correctly and clearly. Listen graciously.