On working with uncertainty
Yes, I know I tend to write long; some others, though, tend to write such short Twitter-length phrases that there’s a real risk that what they say may be lost in the noise. Here’s a real example of something that…
Enterprise Architecture
SCAN ebook is now available
For quite some time now I’d promised to make some of my blog-posts here available in ebook format, as a more focussed and accessible means to help people make use of my material on enterprise-architecture and the like. So, as…
The deliverables of enterprise architecture
Just what are the deliverables of whole-enterprise architecture? In part this is a follow-on to the previous post ‘Ending the shoot-out at the EA Corral‘, about finding ways to end the seemingly ceaseless battles between those enterprise-architects who focus only on…
Another way of running projects
There is another way of running projects and that is to treat each project as an experiment within a set variance. If we do this then it becomes natural that the projects are mission based and thus find their own best way to the expected result. It has another effect and that is that it […]
ResEArch positions
The IT-university of Copenhagen has announced open positions as assistant and associate professors with the goal of strengthening research and teaching in the diverse area of innovation and information technology, also known as the Business Corner of the ITU Triangle Science-Arts-Business. Apply now! Also, please help spread this vacancy positing. From the call: Disciplinary or interdisciplinary backgrounds in fields …read more
Enterprise Architecture visualisation
In this post, I will show how architecture visualisation methods used by architects for centuries (see Drew Skau’s post Visualization Architect at Visual.ly) are relevant to an EA. I’ll exemplify the procedures on the FFLV-GODS, a full EA f…
Ending the shoot-out at the EA Corral
Anyone who’s involved in enterprise-architecture will know there’s a huge ongoing clash-of-the-mindsets between those who think it’s all about IT and that EA should belong as part of the IT-department, versus those who think it’s about a much larger picture…
Designing flexibilities into systems and enterprises
Does your system or enterprise need a spare tire? (photo credit: jbdenham)In face of uncertainty and rapid pace of change, flexibilities like a car’s spare tire can be useful for systems and enterprises. An example of a flexibility is stronger be…
Designing flexibilities into systems and enterprises
Does your system or enterprise need a spare tire? (photo credit: jbdenham)In face of uncertainty and rapid pace of change, flexibilities like a car’s spare tire can be useful for systems and enterprises. An example of a flexibility is stronger be…
The social construction of process
That previous post on process was, yes, I’ll admit it, a bit long: but the key point is that the term ‘process’ is necessarily a bit blurred, and that we get into trouble if we try too hard to sharpen up…
Going from just good enough to being great
I recently saw a Forrester blog entry from George Colony at: http://blogs.forrester.com/george_colony/12-08-27-enterprise_architects_for_dummies_ceos And recently I’ve been reading an interesting book called Good to Great by James Collins. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great The Forrester blog talks about succeeding with realizing the business strategy by involving enterprise architects, whereas the Good to Great book doesn’t mention enterprise architects but just talks […]
The meaning of process
What do we mean by the term ‘process’? What is a process? For that matter, what isn’t a process? This came up in a great Skype-conversation today with Kevin Smith, creator of PEAF (the Pragmatic EA Framework), about yet another LinkedIn somewhat-circular…