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It was a day of music, intense networking and joint learning with a focus on delivering rapid results from EA – quickly. The site: the Austin Four Seasons hotel, as more than 350 Troux customers and industry experts shared their passion for forg…

; So, you might ask, what do Bruce Lee and EA have in common? Well, as a long-time martial artist and Bruce Lee fan, the connection should have been clear to me. But it wasn’t. That was until a friend…

This isn’t just enterprise architecture. It’s about architecture at lots of levels.

Like many posts, this all started with an innocent (hah, likely!) tweet and then became richer as people joined in. Here’s the original. RT @SLSingh Bad Science by @Be…

I get asked often which business process standard an organization should use; BPMN or BPEL?  As I explain to folks, they both have strengths.  Here is a great article that helps understand the benefits of both and where to…

Based on my personal experience of over Eight years of working in Air Travel Transport Industry, I am a firm believer that the Air Travel Transport Industry has been a technology pioneer on a number of fronts. The rest of the world has caught up with…

Boeing, Dell, Volkswagen, Cisco Systems and Discover Financial Services are among the world-leading companies getting strategic, real-world results from their EA and Business Technology Management initiatives.Hear how they’re doing it at Troux&rs…

This makes it sound as if requirements are like mushrooms in the forest – you take a small basket, go to some secret place and pick all the things that you hope are edible, bring them home, cook them, eat them and, you hope, not die of food poisoning.
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I am a huge Mind Mapping fan. I have mind map software on most of my devices. When I saw that Peter Bakker @pbmobi tweeted this I had to share. Mind mapping is a bit of a change in the…

Modern organizations are complex, and that can make IT governance complicated as well. At the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), decisions such as which applications to decommission used to be hobbled by conflicting requirements, unclea…

Jeff Scott recently wrote a great blog "Is the current EA paradigm right for business architecture?"

http://blogs.forrester.com/jeff_scott/11-01-25-is_the_current_ea_paradigm_right_for_business_architecture

The comments section was full of erudite responses from several of the leading thinkers in EA. I’d like to pick up on two of the comments:

Tom Graves

"Most people seem to be obsessed by

Enterprise Architect Xavier Ruvilly had no doubt what his CEO expected of him when Alstom Power launched its Decommissioning Task Force in early 2010: shave 20 percent a year from the IT budget at the global giant in power generation.With the ever-ris…

The Cult of Done Manifesto

There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the s…