Bill Estrem, a Long-time Member of The Open Group, has Passed Away
Bill Estrem, one of the major contributors to the development of the TOGAF® Standard and the TOGAF Certification Program, passed away on February 29, 2020.
The Roles of Enterprise Architects in Innovation – Part 3
In our previous two blogs, part 1 and part 2, we introduced the three roles of architects in innovation: Architecting for innovation: Architects can create room for innovation by reducing organizational complexity and facilitating change. Coordinating …
IT is us
The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something ‘extended’. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation’s IT embody?
IT is us
The amount of IT we have brought in the world is turning the human species into something ‘extended’. IT has behaviour and as such is an amplifier of our intentions. IT is us, it is inseparable from us. What culture does your organisation’s IT embody?
Enterprise architecture management, a theory of constraints, formal trade-off analysis methods and game theory
This article was submitted by Dmitri Ilkaev. Dmitri has over…
The Future Enterprise Architect
Before describing the future Enterprise Architect, we will reflect on the current Enterprise Architect, one of their customers – a current line of business leader – and the strained relationship between them. For the sake of personalization, we will call the current Enterprise Architect ‘Archie’, and current line of business leader ‘Loretta’.
In the future state of Enterprise Architecture, the relationship between the two evolves towards one that is more productive and trusted. We describe what a future Enterprise Architect might look like and summarize the salient differences.
The Value of Architecture Models for Agile Organizations
In the past, I have written extensively on the combination of enterprise architecture and agile development, most recently about the notion of intentional architecture. It is clear that for any organization or system of some size, a solid architecture …
An Alternative to the DIKW Pyramid
My 2012 post on the Co-Production of Data and Knowledge offered a critique of the #DIKW pyramid. When challenged recently to propose an alternative schema, I drew something quickly on the wall, against a past-present-future timeline. Here is a cleaned-…
The Threat of Cyber Terrorism & Security in Intelligent Transportation Systems Architecture
Cyber Terrorism Threats & Security in ITS Architecture By…
Architecture Principles
This blog quickly runs though some basics on architecture principles & how I use them. The company I work for, has a specific set of architecture principles. Within our hybrid Infra team, we limited it to 5 principles so it … Continue reading…
The Dashboard Never Lies
The lie detector (aka #polygraph) is back in the news. The name polygraph is based on the fact that the device can record and display several things at once. Like a dashboard.In the 1920s, a young American physiologist named John Larson devised a vers…
Dark Data
At @imperialcollege this week to hear Professor David Hand talk about his new book on Dark Data.Some people define dark data as unanalysed data, data you have but are not able to use, and this is the definition that can be found on Wikipedia. The earli…