TEDx Folkestone
Link: http://www.evernden.net/tedx-folkestone/ From Roger Evernden – Enterprise Architect 00
Enterprise Architecture
6 Ways to Organize Your Architecture Models (Part 2)
In the previous installment of this architecture organization series, I wrote about organizing your model repository according to business, information and technology domains. I also explained the need to create separate curren…
Service, product and architecture terminology
This one’s a follow-on to the ‘Service, product, service‘ post, but with an emphasis on the role of architecture-terminology itself, rather than any specific item referred to by that terminology. This starts with a private LinkedIn-message that a colleague sent…
Something is (still) rotten in the kingdom of artificial intelligence
Nobody can deny that artificial intelligence (or machine learning, deep learning, or cognitive computing) is booming these days. And — as before, as this is in fact the second round for AI — the hype is almost unlimited. But there… Read More Som…
Service, product, service
What’s the relationship between product and service? And if, as in the Enterprise Canvas model, we assert that ‘everything is or represents a service’, what then is a product? The short-answer is that a product is a ‘frozen’ service – a…
What is Business as Usual for IT Work Intake?
Our Technology Services Team at the City of Vancouver continues to evolve and improve how we can manage work requests. We established an IT Work Intake process that funnels all work requests into one backlog queue. Note these requests that are not bre…
Using ArchiMate to Visualize the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum
Previously, I have written about the use of a modeling language and the practical usage of the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum to classify architectural descriptions along different levels of abstraction. In this blog, I’m going to demonstrate how the conte…
Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons
Following on from the previous post ‘Sensemaking: Into the void‘, what’s a good everyday analogy or example on how to develop our skills in sensemaking and strategy? In particular, how to understand, apply and use the ‘sense, make-sense, decide, act‘…
Culture, remarkable
What is culture? Can we change it? And should we? A whole stream of insights on this arising from an innocuous-seeming tweet this morning from Shawn Callahan: Culture is when something happens and it’s not remarkable. Culture is what we…
101 Lessons from EA – #13 – Arrangement versus complexity
Lesson 13 from my book, 101 Lessons from Enterprise Architecture is about the use of arrangement to manage complexity. In an earlier post I asked for advice on whether I should publish a new edition of this book. Thank you to everyone for your valuable…
Sensemaking: Into the void
How do we make sense when we don’t know what’s going on? What happens when we find ourselves diving into ‘the void’ of the unknown and uncertain? And what can we do there, to make enough sense of ‘the unknown’ to make useful…
Ideas worth sharing… TEDx Folkestone 2018
I’m thrilled to hear that I’ve been selected to speak at TEDxFolkestone 2018. The theme of this event is Courage to Step Beyond. This is an exciting opportunity. I started my career as an Enterprise Architect in part because I was inspired …