Why do I need to keep learning to be a great enterprise architect?
I am always curious to understand why people don’t want…
Enterprise Architecture
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…
A New Home for HoriZZon
While we are navigating the “new normal”, we are trying to cope with things in the best possible way. As such, we continue to realize new product developments and improvements for our customers. In this release we have: A new design and homepage for Ho…
Change-mapping: Plan and Action
In the Change-mapping method, what exactly is Action? Doesn’t action happen everywhere? The short-answer to that second question is actually ‘Yes’ – action does indeed happen everywhere. In which case, you might ask, what’s the point of having Action as…
Looking Beyond Covid-19 to the Future
As Covid-19 continues to put huge pressure on health systems and markets all over the world, it is important to remember that it too will pass.
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