What’s the use of getting certified?
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 →
Enterprise Architecture
EA Talk on Managing Complexity
#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
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…
Communication is Key for Enterprise Architects
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…
Examining the Current State of EA 2011
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…
PODCAST: Examining the state of EA and findings of recent survey
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 →
Webcast: Enterprise Architecture Management with TOGAF
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…
Enterprise Architecture: Helping to unravel the emergence of new forces
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…
TOGAF a Registered Trademark and Surpasses 15k Certifications
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…
A week in Tweets: 06-12 February 2011
Another week – a busy one, this time. There were all the Tweets from the Open Group San Diego conference (previously posted here); but beyond that, two great back-and-forth conversations, on top of all the usual Tweets and links. Usual categories, of course: read more?
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and other ‘business’-type themes:
CreatvEmergence: “create without possessing, […]
Journal of Enterprise Architecture February 2011
Journal of Enterprise Architecture
February 2011 – Volume 7, Number 2
Editor’s Corner: John Gøtze
Architect in the Spotlight: Philip Allega
Articles
A conceptual framework for architecture principles
Erik Proper and Danny Greefhorst
A Process Driven Approach to Modelling Leadership
David Tuffley […]
Studying enterprise architecture and a few other things
Here below is a list of titles of ongoing projects by students at the IT University.
Most of the students are always interested in speaking with experts and practitioners in their areas, so if you are such and want to speak to students, let me know. If you are looking for a fresh graduate to […]