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One of the key ideas within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) is simplification. There is even an architecture principle within the OEAF (Oracle’s EA Framework) and TOGAF around “Controlling Technical Diversity”. I took the liberty of assigning the tagl…

Adrian Campbell over at Inspiring Architects has what I think is a spot-on article discussing the differences between Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise IT Architecture. He focuses on the need of Business Architecture to ensure alignment to busines…

Adrian Campbell over at Inspiring Architects has what I think is a spot-on article discussing the differences between Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise IT Architecture. He focuses on the need of Business Architecture to ensure alignment to busines…

The TOGAF specification has a single sentence in chapter 22 that is the best definition of EA I have ever seen.  It goes as follows: “Enterprise architecture is the application of architectural discipline to the end-to-end enterprise, treating the…

  I am in the middle of reading two books on EA, including the TOGAF 9 specification.  The other book, the one shown below, is proving to be an interesting and very useful read for anyone who wants to get some ideas about how to map EA and SOA. …

I was just thinking a bit about some of the tasks that an EA can “time slice” between to help ensure success.  So, this is just some thinking-out-loud thoughts I had: Make a list of contacts in your organization that you have not spent time wi…

As EA’s, we use communication as one of our main tools.  I am always on the lookout for information and tips on how to present (in fact, how to *communicate* – bidirectionality is important).  So before you take one on the chin and are ‘bout to…

In a recently posted article by by Mike Blackmore, Hamza Jahangir, Harish Gaur, and Basheer Khan – an interesting and useful view of how EA can help structure the blueprint for creating adaptable applications predicated on reusable services (weather …

I have (surprisingly) gotten a lot of comments over the last post about using OmniGraffle as an interactive EA tool.  The news flash/update is that it now supports VGA output.  I had sent a note to the developers and they responded that this was a hi…

Well, I have to admit to being a bit of an Apple fan and, of course, and early adopter of gadgets and technology in general.  So, when FedEx showed up with my iPad 3G last week, I was a kid in a candy store.  One of the apps that my “buy finger” …

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for EA and found this chart which does a great job showing the differences of ENTERPRISE Architecture vs. SOLUTION Architecture across several categories.  This really gets at the heart of a misconception many peop…

I took a look at a blog entry today by Jordan Braunstein where he comments on another blog entry titled “Yes, “Enterprise Architecture is Relative BUT it is not Arbitrary.”  The blog makes some good points such as the following: Lock 10 archite…