Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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…
Speed to market has been a factor in architecture since the day I started as an architect. Every time I have priortized getting a solution in as fast as possible it has always come back to bite me. Funny enough,…
Alex Osterwalder, entrepreneur, “Business Model Generation” author and creator of the Business Model Canvas, discusses how enterprise architects can contribute to business models. He suggests that there needs to be a bridge between Enterprise Architecture and the highest strategic level of business, bringing strategic and implementation concepts together. Continue reading →
The United States Navy released it’s department of Defense and the Navy (DON) Enterprise Architecture Framework on 4.0. Like with all other US government agencies they are federally mandated to have enterprise architecture (EA) established to support their IT strategies…
Todd Biske on why scope is where project management and enterprise architecture come into conflict.
Heal the Eternal Disconnect Between Project Managers and Enterprise Architects!:
Excellent rumination on the relationship between project management and enterprise architecture. From,
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Design is scope.
The budget is a fence that will make good neighbours of project management and architecture.
The more design (scoping) you do before the budget the better.
The less design (changing scope) you do after the budget the better.
The Open Group has moved the technology industry forward yet again with its second international standard on SOA.The Open Group SOA Governance Framework is now an International Standard, having passed its six month ratification vote in ISO and IEC. This…
In my previous post, I talked about how Enterprise Architects can (and should) drive cloud strategy and planning. Today, I would like us to take a look at a larger issue for EAs, CIOs, and anyone invested in IT strategy…
