Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In my last post I announced that I received my Open CA certification with a brief description on it, along with the differentiation between Open CA and TOGAF certification. This post actually sprung a series of questions from folks wanting…
As some of you may have noticed on my twitter feed, I have been activity doing research the Open CA certification. Through the research and it’s reputation, I decided that I would take it based on my findings. I am…
Archimate aims to be the standard notation for enterprise-architectures. But has it become too IT-centric to be usable for that purpose? And is there any way we can get it to break out of the IT-centric box?
These questions came up for me whilst exploring the architectural processes we could use in expanding a business-model developed […]
This week The Open Group IT Architect Certification (ITAC) program has now become The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) program. The IT Specialist Certification (ITSC) program has now become The Open Group Certified IT Specialist (Open CITS) program. With…
A selection of Tweets from various folks – with an especial thank-you to @systemsflow and @theopengroup – from the Open Group conference, Austin, Texas, 18-20 July 2011, via the Twitter hashtag #ogaus. (Selected in the sense that most of the Tweets I’ve included are on business-architecture and enterprise-architecture – I haven’t included much on Cloud, […]
Link: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/protected/publications/viewDocument.html?publicationid=12410&documentid=11313
Free Registration Required. This is an example set of templates for TOGAF 9. It includes example artifacts for all catalogs, matrices and diagrams, and template deliverables. http://ow.ly/5IS6T Example artifacts are as follows: Catalogs: Application Architecture: Applications Portfolio Catalog, Interface Catalog…
The second morning at the Open Group Conference changed themes a bit. The focus shifted from Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture to Security and Cloud. A topic that is very near and dear to my heart. There was quite a…
While at the conference I received lots of great feedback on my presentation. The most popular request has been publishing my deck. Below is the deck I presented at the Open Group Conference Austin in July 2011. The New World…
What a great first day at the Open Group conference in Austin. The big theme for today was the transformation of Enterprise Architecture to be business focused along with the corresponding Business Architecture practices. The sessions ranged from visionary, key…
Below is my session, I take a future look at where I see the Enterprise Architecture industry going. The New World of Enterprise Architecture, from IT Architecture to Enterprise Architecture Mike Walker Principal Architect, Enterprise Strategy & Architecture, Microsoft Enterprise…
There has been a great deal of momentum with the Open Group over the past few weeks (Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) recognized by The Open Group as valid Architecture Framework). I am happy to announce today that for the first…