Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
PreludeLet’s start with the tweets.
@RSessions: Enterprise Architecture is a tool, not a solution.
@Cybersal: I agree EA is not a solution; however I prefer to characterise it as a discipline or a practice. A tool seems too mechanistic.
@l…
In this, my first blog post of 2011, I’d like to issue a challenge to the blogosphere to make 2011 the year of the event. There was no shortage of discussions about services in the 2000′s, let’s have the same type of focus and advances in event’s in the 2010′s. How many of your systems […]
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Enterprise Architect Thought for the Day: Execution is Great Unaddressed Issue
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The more time I spend as an Enterprise Architect, the more I realize just how important this role is. Yet, the stories that we tell fail to bring across that value. Our metaphors (framework, capability, roadmap) are woefully inadequate to c…
ArchiMate® is an open and independent graphical modeling language for enterprise architecture, but that’s only the start of the matter. It’s much more appropriate to see it as a stakeholder management tool. When used in conjunction with an EA framework like TOGAF™, ArchiMate takes on a new dimension and delivers an ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders through the creation of clear models, based on viewpoints that have a common foundation in both TOGAF and ArchiMate.
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Can You Make Sense of the Enterprise One of many reasons for why many enterprises experiences that organizational change projects fail and their respective leaders and managers only discovers that there are significant problems with the way the members of … Continue reading →
Another collection of Tweets and links from a cold, wet summer in Australia: usual categories, of course, after the usual ‘Read more…’ break:
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and suchlike:
greblhad: The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Six: Strengths and weaknesses http://wp.me/p7ejN-8d <interesting #entarch series – an adaptation of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’
vernaallee: RT @profhamel: […]
One point emerging from the research is the importance of architecture being in alignment with the business. Which on the face of it seems logical. But here’s the rub; how do we know this is true? Why do we believe this? Who told us it is so? And if it is so obvious why can’t […]
If you follow my blog you will see that I am very hopeful of the future of ArchiMate. There is a great deal of potential here. I wrote a post entitled ArchiMate – The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard that provides…
A great meetup yesterday with Shawn Callahan (@unorder) and Kevin Bishop (@kevinbishop) of Australian consultancy Anecdote, and their upcoming launch of Zahmoo – a new web-based tool to manage stories and narrative-knowledge, for organisations, communities and families.
Over lunch the conversation wandered onto my work on enterprise-architecture and the Enterprise Canvas, and my latest book Mapping […]
In a prior post, Doug was quite diplomatic in detailing why the Capability Inventory Viewpoint can become an anti-pattern. For those of you who’ve followed my insights over the years, I tend to be a bit more direct. I could dedicate a whole blog to p…
In a prior post, Doug was quite diplomatic in detailing why the Capability Inventory Viewpoint can become an anti-pattern. For those of you who’ve followed my insights over the years, I tend to be a bit more direct. I could dedicate a whole blog to p…