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Enterprise Structure

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#entarch There are some critical structural issues for business organizations, which have critical implications for IT architecture, including generating new requirements for management information systems and collaboration platforms. However, these st…

Summary of the Business Architecture Working Group's (BAWG) Nobel Prize Case Study

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The Nobel Prize Case study workshop was conducted & presented at the Open Group Conference in Amsterdam (2010)The session was led by Harry Hendrickx – CTO at Hewlett Packard.It was an investigation into whether business architecture can be described using natural language rather than any form of modelling language that requires learned semantics (meaning).This post is my extract of the

Adrian Grigoriu

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Adrian Grigoriu’s Enterprise architecture framework definition. This is a extract of Adrian’s www.ebizq.net blog post "An Enterprise Architecture framework definition". It is a very enlightening post by Adrian at a time when it is (rightly or wrongly) quite fashionable to bemoan the use of frameworks. 

1. EA Process: the EA development process and Best Practices for:
EA team organization 
EA

The A-Z Guide to Being an Architect

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"An A-Z Guide to Being an Architect" by Mark Bloodworth and Marc Holmes is a lighthearted article outlining a number of key attributes of architects. An extract is below. Is there any important attributes missing?
A is for Advocate
“I think you’ll find that you really don’t want to do it like that.”
See also: Abstraction, Agile, Acrobat, Availability, Analysis, Applications
B is for

Highlights of Len Fehsken's "Re-thinking Architecture

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This link [http://is.gd/g55wp] is a very interesting read about the scope and nature of enterprise architecture that helps to clarify a very widely misunderstood (because it is still embryonic) discipline.

It was written by the Open Group’s Len Fehsken and is called "Re-thinking Architecture."

Highlights for me were:

"This discipline is young enough that the idea that we already have all the

Enterprise architecture the verb and the noun

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To me, enterprise architecture is both a method and a thing. (i.e. a verb and a noun) 

I have put together a summary of what this means to me and have applied some constraints. These are:

that it should fit on one presentation slide, 
should be com…

Enterprise Architecture is really just ABC

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I recently discovered the wonderful Jörgen Dahlberg (Twitter: @greblhad).

He posts his enterprise architecture motto as follows:

"In the end it comes down to ABC spelled out as “Achieving Business outCome".

I may have a new EA hero!!

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