Enterprise Architecture Awards 2015 – Effectiveness And Innovation Lays The Path To Value

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One of the winners of this year’s Forrester/Infoworld Enterprise Architecture Awards segmented their EA practice into two disciplines: Innovation Architecture and Effectiveness Architecture. These two words describe the range of winners selected by our judges.

Before I announce the winners, let me tell you about why these two words are significant. The Forrester/Infoworld EA Awards have always sought to uncover programs that impact their business through the insight and value that only EA can provide. But many EA programs struggle with this – and the reason for this struggle lies more in themselves than in their context. Bottom line: They focus on “doing architecture” or on “being smart technical experts.” Many talk about being more business-focused but aren’t willing to change their thinking or how they engage with their business.

The five winners of this year’s awards have changed their approach to EA and delivering business impact, and the results show.

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Scrum masters are not project managers

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Everyone in the agile community will understand this (I expect ;-)). If we talk about “managing” we agilists understand that the team “manages” itself. That difference with “traditional” projects, managed by a project leader or -manager, is constantly emphasised by scrum pundits. This article is not for that in-crowd but for people attempting to understand […]

Upcoming EA tour in Australia

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Currently scrambling through a swathe of slidedecks and suchlike… – that’s me getting ready for my upcoming ‘Antipodean Tour’, with a wide range of sessions on enterprise-architecture and related themes currently booked for various dates and places in Melbourne, Sydney…

The logical problem of security architecture

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In security engineering, security through obscurity is the use of secrecy of the design or implementation to provide security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that if the flaws are not known, then attackers will be unlikely to find them. A … Continue reading The logical problem of security architecture →

Big-consultancies and getting it right

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As with all small independents in just about any industry, my /our relationship with ‘the big boys’ in enterprise-architecture is, yeah, kinda ambivalent at best. It’s not just that they make the most noise, grabbing most of the attention and…

Startup 101 – A great set of resources

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On the awesome site Genius.com people have gathered some amazing lectures of starting up a business. The lecturers are some of the most famous and successful people in business today. Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II by Sam Altman Lecture 3: Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideasby Paul Graham […]

Startup 101 – A great set of resources

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On the awesome site Genius.com people have gathered some amazing lectures of starting up a business. The lecturers are some of the most famous and successful people in business today. Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II by Sam Altman Lecture 3: Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideasby Paul Graham […]

2015 HP Software South Central User Forum

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Come join your peers and Intact at the 2015 HP Software South Central User Forum.
On September 23rd, Intact will be sponsoring the HP Software User Forum in Austin, Texas
Event Location:                              
InterContinental St…