Enterprise architects have big egos
So park your ego out by the door and learn…
Enterprise Architecture
Driving Organizational Change: The Heart of the Matter
I was recently invited onto the BiZZdesign Enterprise Architecture Podcast to discuss the journey of organizational change at the Royal Bank of Scotland, an initiative in which I’ve played an active role – and still do, in fact. I think it was a good t…
From the Editor: Introducing our new EA Practice Advisor
It is with great excitement that I announce the introduction…
Why do I need to keep learning to be a great enterprise architect?
I am always curious to understand why people don’t want…
What is knowledge?
What is knowledge? And what is its relation with data and information – or wisdom, for that matter? The starting-point for this was a question on LinkedIn from Josef Miklos, over in the Czech Republic: I am struggling with the…
Protect your digital legacy
How will you protect your digital legacy? Do you know what that legacy is? Or where it is? And what would happen – or not-happen – if all of that legacy of work is lost? For me, this point was…
An EA Response to the Pandemic: Novozymes
Living in a new normal It’s been roughly two months since the Covid-19 pandemic has forced everyone into quarantine. Although the situation is ‘exceptional’, it’s nonetheless starting to feel like a familiar sort of exceptionalism, something you don’t …
Where have all the good skills gone?
[to the tune of “Where have all the flowers gone?”] Where have all the good skills gone? Long time passing Where have all the good skills gone? Long time ago Where have all the good skills gone? Gone to robots…
ArchiMate Models for Agile Teams (Part 2)
In the first part of this blog post, we discussed in general how the structure of the ArchiMate modeling language matches the structure of both component and feature teams. In this second part, we want to go a bit deeper into this topic. Supporting Agi…
Industry Report: Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Covid-19
In March 2020, the Enterprise Architecture 3.0 Summit which was…
On skills: 10, 100, 1000, 10000 hours
10; 100; 1000; 10000. A lot of things those numbers could apply to, of course, but in this case they’re ballpark figures for the number of hours of learning-based practice that it takes to develop specific levels of skill. (We…
ArchiMate Models for Agile Teams (Part 1)
In the most recent post in our ongoing series on agile and architecture, I argued why architecture models are valuable for agile organizations. That post concentrated on the ways in which you can use these models to foster business agility at the enter…