Enterprise Architecture

Must-See Guide to Gartner EA

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As many of you are aware, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summit starts tomorrow in National Harbor, MD!  This year’s agenda looks promising – focusing heavily on how EA can and should deliver business value, growth and transformation. In our second annual Must-See Guide to Gartner EA, we’ve compiled our “Top Ten” list of eye-catching […]

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Modelling mixed-value in Enterprise Canvas

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One of the more subtle problems in enterprise-architecture – in English-language, anyway – is the distinction between values (plural) and value (singular, but often used as plural). The Enterprise Canvas frame provides several useful methods via to disentangle an existing values-mess, and prevent getting into that kind of mess in the first place. In Enterprise Canvas, we […]

EA Heuristic #5: Address the concern of “you are echoing back what I told you”

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(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting“)

Stop parroting me! (photo credit: Ferran Pestaña) 

In some ways, the “as-is” phase of enterprise architecting exercises do not generate new content. It brings together observations from different parts of the organization and synthesizes them. Though the synthesis often produce “fresh” insights, these insights might seem obvious to the organization in retrospect, as they are often associated with pains that the organization has been suffering under. In our EA exercise, we received feedback on our “as-is” analysis that ranged from being “spot on” to “echoing back what I told you”, and that seem confusing until we sat down and analyzed the issue.

Learning from this experience, we could have explained to the organization why the EA team was not simply echoing back to them using the earlier mentioned logic. What we did do was to explain to them the EA methodology, and how we relied on it to systematically analyze the organization.

EA Heuristic #5: Address the concern of “you are echoing back what I told you”

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(this article is part of the series “12 Heuristics for Enterprise Architecting“)

Stop parroting me! (photo credit: Ferran Pestaña) 

In some ways, the “as-is” phase of enterprise architecting exercises do not generate new content. It brings together observations from different parts of the organization and synthesizes them. Though the synthesis often produce “fresh” insights, these insights might seem obvious to the organization in retrospect, as they are often associated with pains that the organization has been suffering under. In our EA exercise, we received feedback on our “as-is” analysis that ranged from being “spot on” to “echoing back what I told you”, and that seem confusing until we sat down and analyzed the issue.

Learning from this experience, we could have explained to the organization why the EA team was not simply echoing back to them using the earlier mentioned logic. What we did do was to explain to them the EA methodology, and how we relied on it to systematically analyze the organization.

Announcing: Third Annual Enterprise Summer School

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Week 31 is for students and researchers as well as practitioners in the field of enterprise architecture, who want to spend a pracademic week together and share and learn more about EA. 
Dates: 30 July – 3 Aug 2012
Location: IT University of Copenhagen
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Themes:

EA as a Discipline and a […]

Gartner et al. – gettin’ there on EA

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Nice to see that even the ‘big fish’ are finally ‘gettin’ there’ on the real scope of enterprise-architecture… A month ago we saw Open Group begin to re-frame their previous IT-centred approach to EA into a new style of ‘enterprise transformation’. (The conference was still more IT than anything else, of course, but at least […]