Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
An excellent post on anecdote.com.au included 5 questions to help you assess whether your organisation has "strategic clarity". The question are:
Can the executive team simply and clearly describe the strategy without referring to notes (or powerpoint slides) aided only by simple sketches they make themselves?
Does the executive team all believe in and describe the same strategy?
Do the
You need to deliver value now from your enterprise architecture and strategic IT planning programs. You need to collaborate with not only IT specialists but business managers and other planning disciplines within the enterprise. And you need to thi…
In a recent blog post, Joe McKendrick poses the question that I have been playing around with for a while regarding where and how SOA fits into EA. He mentions that: Dave Linthicum predicted a couple of years…
Enterprise architecture blog rollI’m going to post my personal list of great enterprise architecture blog sites here.
First three cabs off the rank are Nik Malik, Jeff Scott and Tom Graves. Currently these three guys are the thought leaders in the fie…
Gartner neatly defines the difference between business architecture and business context as:
[E]nterprise business architecture is focused on applying EA practices to the business dimension (people, process, organization and financials) in order to "architect the business."
[B]usiness context is focused on articulating the business strategy, market trends and requirements in order to ensure an
Modern enterprises and other organizations rely heavily on information technology. But the relationship between the organization requiring IT services and the IT department providing those services is often strained. Traditionally, IT departments ar…
“What’s the definition of an application?” Many customers tell us that they struggle greatly with answering this simple question. They say it is the source of arguments, lenghthy discussions, and it takes time to get a consensus on the definition withi…
Who wrote the interview questions?
Face it – you are being hired as one of the top technical employees at the prospects company. Who is going to ask you questions? Chances are the interviewer didn’t create them and had somebody else to do this for the…
Long seen as an EA thought leader, the U.S. Federal Government has paradoxically struggled to deliver on EA’s promise of measurable, repeatable, transformative value for its stakeholders. While the government’s oversight and governance b…
The TOGAF specification has a single sentence in chapter 22 that is the best definition of EA I have ever seen. It goes as follows: “Enterprise architecture is the application of architectural discipline to the end-to-end enterprise, treating the…
I am in the middle of reading two books on EA, including the TOGAF 9 specification. The other book, the one shown below, is proving to be an interesting and very useful read for anyone who wants to get…
On the tnooz web site there is a whole lot of discussion about the pricing of travel through channels and what the responsibilities of the various players are. Specifically the link poses the question, “Should airlines be forced to disclose equal pric…