Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
The first part of this is just a ‘public-service announcement’ service for Cynefin aficionados: Dave Snowden has announced that his current process of updating Cynefin has now extended to include a rethink of the Chaotic domain: RT @snowded: 2 months…
Last week I read a great article from the Harvard Business Review blog entitled "The Best Debater May Not Be the Best Leader" that I found to be true for leaders but also very true for Enterprise Architects. When I…
Continuing with the series on power and politics in enterprise-architecture, a brief summary-so-far, some practical suggestions on modelling of power-issues, and a very important warning… The quick summary is as follows: the practice of enterprise-architecture is often ‘relentlessly political’ one…
There are several sessions on ArchiMate™ at the upcoming Open Group Conference in Barcelona. Henry Franken’s “Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®” session on October 22 at 2:00-2:45 p.m. UTC / 8:00-8:45 a.m. EST will also be livestreamed on The Open Group Website. Continue reading →
A great one-liner by enterprise-architect Jon Ayre: RT @EnterprisingA: Comparing #itarch with #entarch is like comparing your cooker with your house. Your cooker helps you to eat but your house is where you live It reminds me of the key tag-line…
I asked our teams in the IT Department at the American University of Sharjah to put together a short presentation to help me get to know the team members and to understand what their operational and project responsibilities are. In some cases, the teams worked on an integrated platform (suite) with the majority of the […]
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I had a great time at the BCS-EA 2012 conference in London yesterday. I’ll write up a proper summary later today, but for now, here are the slidedeck and accompanying worksheet that I uploaded to Slideshare. Slidedeck: Lessons-learnt in EA…
There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading →
One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned from my Microsoft career was the importance of a personal brand. It helped me tremendously while I was at the company. It both served me well inside and outside the company…
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators.
Actioning instead of doing. Impacting instead of affecting. Progress instead of continue. Moving forward and incentivising with respect to the upside.
It is easy to see that the cliches and jargon of today’s office culture are all about giving the impression of mastery, energy and success.
They don’t.
If you really wish to convey intelligence and competence, speak and write in plain English.
Anyone who’s involved in any form of enterprise-architecture would know that it’s best described as ‘relentlessly political’: seems almost everything we deal with turns out to be some kind of tortuously-intransigent wicked-problem. Which in turn seem so often to be rooted…
What is enterprise-architecture? That’s, uh, one of the more awkward questions of the trade… (Quick summary: if you ask a dozen enterprise-architects, you’ll probably get at least a hundred different definitions… or just ‘It depends…’ ) In the continuing spirit of ‘Ending…