EA Frameworks or Ontologies?

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How do we get the best out of EA frameworks and ontologies?If you are interested in improving our use of EA frameworks, you might find my latest post on LinkedIn interesting: EA Frameworks or Ontologies? Do you think that the terms frameworks, ontologies, taxonomies, schema are often confused? Do you ever feel that there is a better…

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Architecture as boxes, lines and glue

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What do architects do? And why? At this point we’d usually reach out for some apposite metaphor… And yes, by far the most common metaphor is ‘boxes and lines’, or ‘boxes and arrows’. If we take the most stereotyped, ‘boxy’ view…

Architecting the balance between usefulness and profit

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One of the constant challenges for enterprise-architecture – probably all forms of architecture, in fact – is explaining the value of what we do. For example, like a good conference-organiser or event-host, often the better we do our work, the…

GaaP as a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

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It is worth mentioning perhaps that the Service Delivery Platform (SDP), which has captured the telecom and digital media industries attention for a long while, was designed too to supply common services for the products and…

GaaP as a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)

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continuing
 
It is worth mentioning perhaps that the Service Delivery Platform (SDP), which has captured the telecom and digital media industries attention for a long while, was designed too to supply common services for the products and…

NPM, Tay, and the Need for Design

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Take a couple of seconds and watch the clip in the tweet below: While it would be incredibly difficult to predict that exact outcome, it is also incredibly easy to foresee that it’s a possibility. As the saying goes, “forewarned is forearmed”. Being forewarned and forearmed is an important part of what an architect does. […]

The unit plague

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Regardless of our background we all have the tendency to divide our work into units. This tendency is usually called the unit bias. A simple example that we all have experienced occurs in cleaning where we first divide the area in subareas. Once we achieve a unit we feel a level of achievement so we … Continue reading The unit plague →

The Demoralised Man

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Right now there’s an interesting (to me, anyway!) discussion going on within the Enterprise Architecture Network community on LinkedIn, on the role of ethics in EA, and its relationship with EA as a profession. I’ve added a few quick comments…