Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It started with one of those first-thing-in-the-morning ideas that seemingly turn up from nowhere: Principles create a bridge between order and chaos. Order is expressed in rules; principles are expressed in story. Order, principles and chaos: order is an abstraction…
I can’t escape the feeling that today’s IT decision makers are passionately committed to building the best IT infrastructure the 1990′s have to offer. I have a very clear memory from the early eighties. I was standing on St Kilda Rd. It was a beautiful Melbourne weekday. Sun shining through the plane trees. A soft […]
#entarch In his talk to the BCS Enterprise Architecture Group this week, Patrick Hoverstadt suggested that traditional enterprise architecture obeyed Alfred Chandler’s principle: Structure Follows Strategy. In other words, first the leadership defines …
#entarch In his talk to the BCS Enterprise Architecture Group this week, Patrick Hoverstadt suggested that traditional enterprise architecture obeyed Alfred Chandler’s principle: Structure Follows Strategy. In other words, first the leadership defines …
I have had the opportunity to read several documents containing estimations on what the chief architects and CIOs should expect of the concept of Enterprise Architecture in 2012. As a result I have made some thoughts of my own, and my thoughts have been delimited to what could happen in Scandinavia. There are reasons for […]
#entarch There is a common fallacy among enterprise architects that radical structural and behavioural change can and should be driven by a few simple and powerful ideas. Alas, the public sector is strewn with the disastrous consequences of this fallac…
#entarch There is a common fallacy among enterprise architects that radical structural and behavioural change can and should be driven by a few simple and powerful ideas. Alas, the public sector is strewn with the disastrous consequences of this fallac…
Seems that that Twitter-conversation about principles and decision-making just keeps on rollin’ on. Stijn Viaene kicked the ball rolling again with the following Tweet: destivia: @ebuise @tetradian @richardveryard Never forget a ‘model’ is always only a preliminary version of how we see or want to see reality. After which, yes, the whole happy ‘passel o’ […]
Not quite sure where this one started: probably from this Tweet a few days back by Anna Mar (@simplicableanna): simplicableanna: 7 Reasons You Need Architecture Principles http://bit.ly/xqzDkl #entarch Gerold Kathan retweeted it, and I passed it on again as what I thought of as a useful summary. Nothing unusual there. But then one of my […]
Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture. As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…
Recently many of my colleagues were engaged in a healthy debate of principles around enterprise architecture. As I was dwelling on this, there was a healthy discussion on what a principle should be and how should they be described, etc.&nbs…
A service has explicit boundariesThis is one of the four tenets of SOA, promulgated by Microsoft and others around 2004. In its (now discontinued) Connected Services Framework (3.0 SP1), it is identified as one of the four principles of service-ori…