10 Signs You’re Not REALLY a Director of IT
Title inflation/mis-direction is vermicious. Like a Knid.
Governance
Beware gurus promoting their new book on SOA Governance
SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall, April 2011). The Q&A didn’t encourage me to buy …
Beware gurus promoting their new book on SOA Governance
SearchSOA.com interviewed co-authors Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes to discuss their recently published book, SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud (Prentice Hall, April 2011). The Q&A didn’t encourage me to buy …
How to Love your Outsourcing Partner
In the latest sign of an economic recovery and a pickup in government spending, Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a multi-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to provide technology services to NASA. In another strategic outsourcing deal Nokia will out…
How to Love your Outsourcing Partner
In the latest sign of an economic recovery and a pickup in government spending, Hewlett-Packard has been awarded a multi-year contract worth up to $2.5 billion to provide technology services to NASA. In another strategic outsourcing deal Nokia will out…
Segment Architecture in a Commercial Setting
The notion of an Enterprise Architect in a Segment (aka “Segment Architect”) has been fairly well described in for the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework. (FSAM reference). It is not always well understood, and there are …
Parallel Universe Syndrome?
I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Applic…
Parallel Universe Syndrome?
I have become increasingly concerned that in the typical enterprise the major business improvement disciplines operate to some extent as silos. EA is often disconnected from Business Architecture. BPM is frequently not well connected with EA and Applic…
Nogility
Large technology organizations don’t simply become agile. They’re either agile or not. If they’re not, the path to being so is via change, often radical change at that.
Silos, what silos?
Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…
Silos, what silos?
Following on from my blog on “Beware the new silos!” today I was speaking with a business process analyst who briefed me on how his company, a medium sized financial services organization, is using a leading BPMS together with a collaboration based too…
Unprincipled Architecture
Anything IT does should be seen as consistent. Using words like “Principle” with the definition most people have for it is a sure-fire way to disappoint folks. It turns out that instead of a iron clad ‘always-will-do’ thing, our Principles are merely s…