Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Information World published the Enterprise Architecture Awards for 2010 today. Kudos to InfoWorld and Forrester. It is great to see this kind of socialization of EA successes. We often talk about the programs that haven’t worked instead of showcasing all…
Why do EA initiatives fail to deliver on their promise? (PA#1.1) Why did Spock fail to be logical? (PA#1.2) We only ask people and projects to be compliant never committed to the vision presented by EA. (PA#1.3) EA is envisioned, built and executed as a static structure but sold as the generator of dynamic behavior. […]
One thing that often occurs when a team sets out to create an EA tool is that they create a metamodel that will be supported within the tool. As I pointed out in my last post, I would like to openly challenge tool makers to allow multiple simulta…
#entarch Following my blogpost on EA and the Big Picture, @carlhaggerty asked does it matter if EA disappears into a core C-Suite competency?
Clearly it matters to some people, especially those who have committed themselves and their careers to the id…
Link: http://enklare.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/togaf-9-adm-vs-3p-lean/ From Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture +10
Link: http://enklare.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/togaf-9-adm-vs-lean-kaizen/ From Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture 00
One thing that I’ve come to appreciate is both the importance, and impermanence, of the Enterprise Architecture metamodel. If that last sentence didn’t piss you off, you weren’t listening. I’ve found two common groups of Enterprise Ar…
We are used to the idea of a Programme/Project Management Office (PMO) but often organisations fail to understand (or perhaps deliberately misunderstand) what the Enterprise Architecture function does. I propose that the Enterprise Architecture function is, in effect, an Office of the CEO, or an Office of the CEO and Strategic Change Management. The book […]
#entarch Some people think that what uniquely characterizes enterprise architects is that they are the ones who “get the big picture”.
If this is true, it is because EAs have differently wired brains to the rest of humanity, or because their positi…
For those interested in a free webcast from Gartner on EA best practices here are the details: Hosted by: Betsy Burton (VP Distinguished Analyst) and Daniel Sholler (Research VP) Those who have cracked the code on enterprise and application architecture…
A somewhat smaller collection of Tweets and links this time – mainly because people are heading off into their various holiday-seasons, I guess. Same categories as usual, though, preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and similar business themes:
SAlhir: RT @GreatestQuotes “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should […]
We boarded the plane, settled down in our seats, to await pushback from the gate – the usual ‘hurry up and wait’ of everyday air-travel. Seemed to take a bit longer than usual, though. Strange clonks and thumps from beneath my seat, down below in the cargo bay. We wait, and we wait.
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