Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture. Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided fou…
Today, I gave my talk at the Open Group conference that presents a step-by-step method for creating a core diagram that is useful for agile business. I will blog a series of posts on the topic to share this information to my friends and colleague…
I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering this question: What is a Roadmap? It’s been a fascinating series of discussions. One thing that strikes me is that most of the int…
It is amazing how often I need to share the very basic concept of Enterprise Architecture with my peers, customers, stakeholders, and associates. Microsoft’s customers often ask about Enterprise Architecture, and when our customers come to visi…
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 …
Just reading through a LinkedIn thread on “the biggest problem facing Enterprise Architecture,” and I noticed one response that struck a chord. Charles Wade stated the biggest problem as: “Practicality! We spend allot[sic] of time in the Iv…