Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Several interesting points that deserve their own blog posts, so this is just a conversation starter:- EA should not be inside of IT, and it’s usual placement hampers both IT and its effectiveness. – EA maturity is directly related to organizational pe…
Several interesting points that deserve their own blog posts, so this is just a conversation starter:- EA should not be inside of IT, and it’s usual placement hampers both IT and its effectiveness. – EA maturity is directly related to organizational pe…
I was speaking with a software architect, yesterday, after Martin Sykes, Mark West, and myself presented our ideas around Visual Stories to about 150 consultants. He asked me about my role and when I explained that I am an Enterprise Architect, h…
In the business architect profession, mistakes can have severe consequences. As such, it is only reasonable for customers to demand some kind of impartial proof of our professional skills. Continue reading →
#entarch I shall be was one of the speakers at the Unicom EA Forum on February 24th in Central London. This post now edited to remove invitation and include slides.
OutlineAs business becomes more complex, enterprises are faced with structural complexi…
T-shaped people work well in teams because they can see a situation from a different perspective, can reduce bottlenecks, fill skills gaps and take on new skill sets quickly. This then leads to higher team productivity and greater flexibility. Therefor…
Combined with reading some of the latest news in EA and having spent a full week with many architects at an internal Microsoft event called TechReady, I decided to share a seemly relevant topic of concern for architects, communication. I’m…
Today the Open Group has released their yearly state of enterprise architecture on their blog (http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/16/podcast-examining-the-state-of-ea-and-findings-of-recent-survey ). The panel discussion led by Dana Gardner with Interabor Solutions was recorded at the Open Group conference last week in San Diego. The…
Listen to our recorded podcast on the state of EA, or read the transcript. The podcast was recorded by Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions at The Open Group Conference, San Diego 2011. Continue reading →
For those that want to learn about Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) alfabet who is a tools vendor is hosting a webcast on their thoughts on EAM. I would assume that they will illustrate that through their tool. Enterprise Architecture Management…
At every turn from agrarian to industrial to informative to creative, fundamental changes occurred in how business was done and in the principles of business management. These changes, although seemingly unrelated to a field like Enterprise Architectur…
Interesting news from the Open Group in regards to their TOGAF® enterprise architecture framework standard. The Open Group just hit two major milestones for the architecture standard: The Open Group has announced via its blog that TOGAF® was recently…