Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
A key to any Enterprise Architecture program is solution architecture. Solution architecture is where work gets done. If your EA team is disconnected from the solution architecture effort, you’ll probably hear the term “ivory tower” a lot. Unfortunately, it’s far more common than you may think. Looking the typical project, the first question is where […]
I’d like to thank those of you who have taken the trouble to respond to our very long and admittedly somewhat onerous survey. At least I was honest and told you it was a biggie. So far there have been respondents from Australia, Netherlands, USA, Russia and India. I thank you sincerely and ask you […]
This is an interesting book, it is the collective wisdom of four dozen or so software architects, interestingly only two of them are women. This is not a book about architectural methodology it quite literally provides 97 points that the contributors feel will make you a better architect. The contributors’ wisdom is delivered in neat […]
Is an approach to make your organization work better by creating a form of management that supports the various forms of governance and forms of planning. The literature review that you will be able to read by downloading the document from the provided link, deals with how Enterprise Architecture can enable an enterprise to achieve the […]
We see a lot of discussion, in the frameworks, books, speeches, and the blogosphere that discusses the value of EA as it applies to the planning and governance of money spent to change a company (usually IT dollars, but many enlightened souls will spea…
Adrian Grigoriu recently posted about the failure of EA frameworks to address real enterprise architecture, due to their focus on IT and lack of focus on business. He is right, of course, in pointing out that TOGAF does not cover Enterprise Archi…
This is a first in what I hope will be a few blogs around the subject of architecture by influence. There are no shortage of people who are writing that enterprise architects can’t be successful unless they have some teeth, i.e. the ability to stop activities in their tracks that aren’t compliant with the architectural […]
A while ago I got involved in following little Twitter conversation: @pauljansen: RT @umairh the more unpredictable the world gets, the less valuable your cleverest strategy becomes < unless you go for agility @krismeukens: @pauljansen agility requ…
On Twitter, Brenda Michelson of Elemental Links started a conversation with the question: Do #entarch frameworks enable or constrain practice of (value from) enterprise architecture? In my comments back to Brenda, it became clear to me that there’s a trap that many teams fall into, not just Enterprise Architecture, and that’s falling into an inward […]
Barriers for Enterprise Architecture When working with adaption of concepts and technology then the enterprises will face issues with to identify the proper solutions in the proper pace and adapt the solutions to the context that the enterprise is within. Likewise will the enterprise face the challenge of adoption. The adoption of the concept or […]
Pardon the Phineas and Ferb reference, but when I read this post from Chris Lockhart, I couldn’t help but think of Professor Doofenschmirtz and his inventions. I really liked this post from Chris and how it emphasizes understanding the nature of the problem at hand. I’ve had first hand experience at more than one company […]
Tom Graves, David Linthicum, and I recently got into an interesting discussion on Twitter as the result of a, EBiz blog post by David, where he makes the statement that Good SOA is the same as Good EA. (See ‘Do SOA and enterprise architecture now…