Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
A key driver for management in general and enterprise architecture in particular is to get a better grip on the future, on the evolution of your enterprise. A common technique to support this is roadmapping. A roadmap is a strategic plan that shows the…
– Marc Lankhorst, Fabian Aulkemeier In a previous blog post on the features of our collaboration platform, we have explained how you can support people in working together on architectures and other models via structured workflows. In that post, …
Our discipline has long been working with the concept of ‘technical debt’. Generally, technical debt is a (often hidden, but not always) defect of some substantial scale. There is substantial effort involved in repairing the debt, otherwise…
In the previous story, Agile teaches us the true meaning of Architecture, I introduced a ‘new’ definition of Architecture: the design decisions that are hard to completely remove from implementations (or in short: that what is hard to chang…
What is architecture? Not of cities or buildings, but the organisational version: enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, software architecture, business architecture, infrastructure architecture? My neck hairs general…
Architecture principles are a very popular tool in the enterprise architect’s tool box. The underlying concept of ‘comply or explain’, however, makes them particularly toxic. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in 2015. It …
Moving IT support for your business to the cloud means ‘our’ IT being hosted in a fragmented landscape of data centers. That only looks like a silver bullet if you are short sighted. [This article originally appeared on InfoWorld in……
A 2017 CIO survey by Harvey Nash and KPMG shows that EA is the fastest growing tech skill in demand. While this is clearly a good thing for all budding architects I am concerned that the emphasis on such studies is still on technical skills… and …
Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…
SASSY Architecture is a practice of combining two seemingly incompatible paradigms. The first one is based on non-contradiction and supports the vision for an ACE enterprise (Agile, Coherent, Efficient), through 3E enterprise descriptions (Expressive, Extensible, Executable), achieving “3 for the price of 1”: Enterprise Architecture, Governance, and Data Integration. The second is based on self-reference […]
How will #EntArch help enterprises to adapt to emerging, unprecedented, and often unexpected challenges? @RogerEvernden explains, 24 October at #eacbpm London https://t.co/vBgJ225TaM pic.twitter.com/aMU9lY4jMc — IRM UK (@IRMUK) August 8, 2018
Okay, I admit it: I’m at real risk right now of becoming a grumpy old guy: Getting snappy at people on LinkedIn and all that. More than a fair bit of that phrase about “Will not suffer fools gladly”. Patience strained…