Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Martin Owen, Vice President of Product Management at ERwin, posts on LinkedIn that
“Enterprise Architecture is arguably one of those jobs that isn’t ever finished. But I’d argue that over analysis is just as damaging to a business as the…
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The Value of Architecture, Reference Architecture and Architecture Framework
Any system has an architecture. An enterprise does as well. For instance there are Bus and Star styles of architectures. One of these architecture patterns m…
There are many common sense reasons, such as predictability, repeatability, consistency, standardization etc., for the use of models, templates, standards, paterns, frameworks, reference or/and generic architectures. A class in OO (Objec…
In “Design thinking vs the lean startup: which one should you use?” Graham van der Made, editor of Ventureburn, the “Start up news for investment markets”, discusses the design thinking and the lean startup methods.
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These days, there is a lot of talk about the ‘API Economy’: a world filled with systems providing services to other systems using (above all RESTful) services. It would be easy to miss the fact that this isn’t new at … Continue reading →
In “Architecture is Dying – Why EA and Agile isn’t enough to stop Shadow IT”, Barry O’Reilly writes for IASA, “an association for all IT architects”, that “architecture is dying”…
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And yeah, this is where it gets seriously scary. Not just for me: for just about everyone. I mentioned in the previous post that “I hate the money-economy”. It might be useful if I explained why? — Yes, this is May Day. Beltane,…
And, yeah, this is where it gets kinda scary. For me, anyway… I hate the money-economy. (Understatement… But explaining that is for another post than this one.) The reality, though, is that I do have to find some way to work with…
I am conducting research into the best practices in how Enterprise Architecture teams perform scenario planning. Enterprise architecture teams are the group to answer questions such as: What happens if the business adds a new sales channel? What impact does latest technology widget XYZ have on our technology ecosystem? How do we ensure that security and […]
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I am conducting research into the best practices in how Enterprise Architecture teams perform scenario planning. Enterprise architecture teams are the group to answer questions such as: What happens if the business adds a new sales channel? What impact does latest technology widget XYZ have on our technology ecosystem? How do we ensure that security and […]
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On Monday, April 24, Steve Nunn, President and CEO of The Open Group gave a warm welcome to over 200 attendees from 24 countries at the ‘Smart Cities/Making Standards Work’ event in Berlin, Germany. The venue, Berlin Marriott, sits on the site where some of the Berlin Wall was. In several meeting rooms, attendees were in the former East and West Berlin at the same time.