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The TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) provides complete guidance for implementing and executing an organization’s enterprise architecture. The process consists of multiple, consecutive phases enclosed in a closed loop
The purpose…

I’m interviewing an enterprise architecture candidate today. His CV suggests that he is an enterprise IT solution architect so I am going to probe a bit and see if he understands architecture of the enterprise. Here’s some questions I have jotted down as a framework for my own thinking. I’m sharing it in case it is useful to anyone else out the in the #entarch community.

What does "enterprise

In recent years, IS academia has argued that EA is increasingly becoming a strategic management tool or a high-level business function for long term planning and execution. It has been a healthy evolution for EA to question its IT heritage and adopt a …

I am generally a happy client with my personal bank here in Australia. Their online services are good, they have excellent phone service, always reply to my enquiries with a smile, and service fees are kept at a minimum. However, two weeks ago I had an…

In 1989 Walt Disney Pictures released a popular comedy with the title of “Honey, I shrunk the kids”. It was early days for animation and graphics wizardry in the movies. Jurassic Park was still four years away; the first Harry Potter movie was elev…

One of my earliest posts was entitled, “What can SOA learn from RDBMS?” In that posting I was arguing for “Event Triggers” that fire when “interesting” business objects change. Of course, “interesting” needs further definition and so for tha matter do…

Economies are improving worldwide. But CIOs are more demanding than ever that enterprise architecture programs deliver bottom-line benefits, quickly. That’s why our largest-ever worldwide Troux user conference will feature EA practitioners from A…

In a series of interesting twitter posts @taotwit(Nigel Green), @erikproper, @oscarberg, @jdevoo have been discussing modelling Value – other than monetary value. In VPEC-T (modeling based on Values, Policy, Events, Contents and Trust) the abstract con…

Todd Biske, on his excellent Blog has offereed the imperative, “Let’s make 2011 the year of the event” That is a truly wonderful cause. I am shamelessly taking the idea and adding some of my own thinking here. I urge you to read Todd’s original post, …

Sometimes it seems as if we only hear about what goes wrong in Enterprise architecture programs. That’s why it was such a pleasure to hear Forrester Research Inc. Analyst Gene Leganza describe what makes EA programs go right. His findings, based …

This post is a little off topic, but when I saw this article I had to post it. Some colleagues of mine gave me a hard time when I predicted that the iPad (and others like it afterwards) was a…

This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.

In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and…