Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Organisations always have an implicit architecture, but not always an explicit architecture. If they do have an explicit architecture, the chances are that it is an IT Architecture that has evolved over the course of hundreds of little decisions made by developers and project managers over the years. Perhaps these decisions have been made by […]
A couple of weeks ago, I asked a simple question on Twitter: Should Enterprise Architects have/get an MBA? That meme made its way to InfoQ, so I figured I should actually post my own thoughts on the subject. First, a full disclaimer: I don’t have an MBA. I do have a MS in Computer Science […]
Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking. And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about. The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards […]
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Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking. And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about. The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards […]
Leo de Sousa shared a blog that covered his experience of doing the current state first, supporting Adrian Grigoriu’s response to my posting last week entitled Applying EA to Your Life . I do, in fact, support the contention that current state is an “input to gap analysis” and is “useful for benchmarking”, but I would […]
I just saw a post by Adrian Grigoriu responding to Gartner’s Philip Allega’s post Applying EA to Your Life . Within the post about how EA might be able to help plan our lives, Philip then brings up an regular EA debate “Do you start…
While we’ve been busy with our Entrepreneurial program over the past couple of weeks, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t been monitoring the topics du jour. One of the more interesting threads being bounced around on Twitter is whether Enterprise Ar…
While we’ve been busy with our Entrepreneurial program over the past couple of weeks, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t been monitoring the topics du jour. One of the more interesting threads being bounced around on Twitter is whether Enterprise Ar…
While we’ve been busy with our Entrepreneurial program over the past couple of weeks, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t been monitoring the topics du jour. One of the more interesting threads being bounced around on Twitter is whether Enterprise Ar…
Normally, we don’t pay much attention to Microsoft when it comes to the areas of strategy and planning, but this is just too interesting to pass up. Gabriel Morgan of Microsoft posted his lessons learned from a year of leading Enterprise Arc…
Normally, we don’t pay much attention to Microsoft when it comes to the areas of strategy and planning, but this is just too interesting to pass up. Gabriel Morgan of Microsoft posted his lessons learned from a year of leading Enterprise Arc…
Normally, we don’t pay much attention to Microsoft when it comes to the areas of strategy and planning, but this is just too interesting to pass up. Gabriel Morgan of Microsoft posted his lessons learned from a year of leading Enterprise Arc…