Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
For an organization practicing IT-EA (IT Architecture, not True-EA) the ideal reporting location is directly to the CIO as part of the Office of the CIO. In that structure, the EA function has the widest view of all of the activities of IT and is not n…
There are many ways to instantiate an EA Team: virtual approaches, centralized teams, with and without solutions architects, etc. Regardless of the real-world constraints, the range of possible structures does not change the main objective of the team,…
True Enterprise Architecture (True-EA) is quite simply architecting the enterprise. The overwhelming majority of EA efforts that we have come in contact with over the last two decades have, in fact, been IT Enterprise Architecture (IT-EA) efforts. Th…
Choosing appropriate metrics to measure EA is challenging. We find that most practitioners, and their management, want to see “absolute” metrics, a measure yielding some sort of generally accepted min/max in the form of a quantity or percentage (e.g. …
During the past couple years, we have begun working with clients where the efforts of IT-centric business and information architecture efforts have been sponsored and eventually taken over by representatives of senior leadership outside of the IT organ…
The need for an EA charter is debated somewhat due to either the perceived nature of the charter document as a tactical project document or the amount of time that is required to do more than a cursory job of creating an organizational document. Our ex…
In a word, no. There are always exceptions, of course, but it is in the best interests of the organization, and of the EA Team, that the EA Team be free to make objective future state recommendations in the context of a longer-term horizon. The organi…
June 22, I posted another ArchiMate quiz question: ArchiMate Quiz: A Common Cause. It’s been a while, but here is the discussion of the ‘solution’. The quiz started with the following two ArchiMate snippets (in Mastering ArchiMate col…
Well, it’s happening! My first Forrester report was published this week. (Forrester clients can access here). The topic? Cyber security transformation of course! It’s what I have lived and breathed for the last 3.5 years. I have also engaged peer CISOs…
Sixty-two percent of companies fail to get the most out of their business technology — and the CEO and CIO are to blame. Forrester CEO George Colony and Principal Analyst Bobby Cameron explain why these executives are responsible for leveraging technol…
Sixty-two percent of companies fail to get the most out of their business technology — and the CEO and CIO are to blame. Forrester CEO George Colony and Principal Analyst Bobby Cameron explain why these executives are responsible for leveraging technol…
Enterprise architecture is often perceived as an abstract, conceptual, and somewhat esoteric discipline practiced by ‘high priests’ who provide guidance with their lofty ‘architecture principles.’ It’s true that architects are often concerned with over…