Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Interesting news from the Open Group in regards to their TOGAF® enterprise architecture framework standard. The Open Group just hit two major milestones for the architecture standard: The Open Group has announced via its blog that TOGAF® was recently…
Part of what Architects do is to initiate change; but initiation is only the beginning. It’s not just enough to explain what change is going to happen; it’s also critical to explain why the change is necessary and what the impact that change will b…
Wednesday at The Open Group Conference in San Diego included a formal Cloud Computing conference stream. This was followed in the evening by an unstructured CloudCamp, which made an interesting contrast. Continue reading →
The following a selected subset of the Tweets and links sent out by attendees and other from the Open Group (TOGAF) conference on enterprise-architecture, IT-security and cloud-computing. Given my own interests, I’ve emphasised enterprise-architecture, but I’ve included many of the others as well. (If you want to see the full set, follow the ‘#ogsdg‘ hashtag […]
The main themes at this week’s Conference are Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, SOA and Cloud Computing. But there are a number of common threads running through it all relating to value delivered to IT customers through open systems; one of those threads is Interoperability. Continue reading →
TOGAF®’s tremendous growth over the past few years is a testament to not only how much open enterprise architecture frameworks are needed within organizations today, but also to how certifications like TOGAF® can help professionals differentiate themselves and remain secure in their employment when staff cutting is rampant throughout most industries. Continue reading →
At this Conference, the RTES Forum will start to examine the technologies and techniques in the industry surrounding the development of Dependability Cases. Continue reading →
At TOGAF Camp, you will take away new or refined ideas that can be applied to your own enterprise, and we upload the discussion content into a wiki accessible to all. Continue reading →
As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit in relation to the architecture.
But there’s a catch. A big catch. People should not be […]
This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology. I suppose the answer depends on wh…
This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology. I suppose the answer depends on wh…
This is a response to a very thought-provoking discussion that’s been going on at the Business Ecology Initiative LinkedIn Group on the topic of whether Business Architecture is synonymous with Business Ecology. I suppose the answer depends on wh…