Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
At The Open Group’s TOGAF® Camps, I enjoy watching people really delve into topics such as these, and get excited about sharing their own experiences and learn from others’. It’s rewarding to know that people take away new or refined ideas from …
Another week’s collection of Tweets and links. Running a bit late with this one – a lot of time and effort for the AERio conference, and then allowed myself to get distracted by the Libyan mess, which was not a good idea. Oh well. Usual categories, anyway, after the usual Read more’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, […]
As the IT media is dominated by stories on Cloud and cyber-security, it will be refreshing to debate these in an open environment at The Open Group Conference, London, and discuss the many challenges we all face in navigating an increasingly complex IT…
For EA to earn its glorious position of the overall enterprise-wide architecture management function, it needs business embracement. What are some of the areas where EA can focus on giving the business flavor? Continue reading →
When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence of the architecture. use the LEGO Digital Designer to model the design. remember […]
Unique business situations still demand for small/nimble IT solutions that wouldn’t wait for long lead times, big business cases. What is the solution? Continue reading →
Just been reading (via Tweet by Bill Ives) a post by Anne Marie McEwan on ‘Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold on the Workplace‘. Within a much larger context in a very good article, this one brief section caught my attention:
The Japanese concept of ‘ba’ came up in one of the face-to-face conversations. … Nonaka et al say that […]
The notion of an Enterprise Architect in a Segment (aka “Segment Architect”) has been fairly well described in for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework. (FSAM reference). It is not always well understood, and there are …
I’m working with StreamBase on an Event Processing survey directed at the enterprise architecture community. As a reader of elemental links, there is a high probability you are, work with, or lead enterprise architects. Can you do me a favor? Tak…
Is Enterprise Architecture a profession or discipline? Having some insight to this question – if not a complete answer – will help us further define the curriculum, mentoring and process to develop architects. Continue reading →
[Updated to incorporate changes suggested by Nigel Green in the first comment in the comments-section below.]
A great conversation last night with Nigel Green, originator of the VPEC-T frame to elicit requirements and other concerns in enterprise-architecture and business-change design.
As described in my post ‘Not quite VPEC-T‘ back in November, the ’service-flow content’ part of my […]
I announced The EA Game in a recent Twitter status update:
Shall We Play A Game? Introducing The EA Game http://gotze.eu/projects/the-ea-game/ #entarch #systemthinking
I forgot to blog the link too: The EA Game project page/announcement. Still a good background read, but there’s more:
The #entarch […]