Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
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 …
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
I had the pleasure to host a session by Dr Tim O’Neill at the British Computer Society’s Enterprise Architecture Specialist Group a few weeks ago. Dr O’Neill is the faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology, Sydney, though cur…
I cannot take credit for that aphorism… credit goes to Jan Van Til. He coined the term after reading Tom Graves’ excellent post on the architecture of responsibility. Tom’s post details the philosophical challenges of a responsibility…
The word ‘value’ has too many meanings and sometimes it masks a real problem. I had a conversation with a very smart customer recently, where their IT division is going through a transformation to help their business compete. I asked …
Davos, Switzerland, becomes the temporary capital of the planet this time of the year as world leaders converge to tackle pressing global economic and policy questions at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is much more than a …
We are used to the idea of a Programme/Project Management Office (PMO) but often organisations fail to understand (or perhaps deliberately misunderstand) what the Enterprise Architecture function does. I propose that the Enterprise Architecture function is, in effect, an Office of the CEO, or an Office of the CEO and Strategic Change Management. The book […]