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Assessing the State of Enterprise Architecture in the Industry
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As you may have noticed, I’ve been kinda struggling somewhat to fully explain the ‘Why’ behind all of this talk of ‘new toolsets for enterprise-architecture‘ and related disciplines. And then, out of the blue, via a reTweet from Phil Beauvoir…
It’s another of those times where I don’t quite know whether to laugh, cry, be incensed, or what, so I guess I’ll have to settle for somewhere in between… This morning’s email brings me the usual guff from the mainstream…
Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) is the discipline that supports this allocation of investments to various asset categories of the organization, such as capabilities, applications, or infrastructure, and helps creating a healthy set proje…
So many IT departments seems stumble around in the dark, not having a structured overview of the application landscape or the business, and yet Enterprise Architecture promising to remediate this has a hard time gaining traction. Why is this? My conclusion is, that: Enterprise Architecture is not a well-defined discipline. Hiring an Enterprise Architect, you […]
TOGAF provides a Framework for any organization wishing to benefit from developing an Enterprise Architecture of anyone wishing to become an enterprise architect. This short 2-minute video from Orbus aims to answer the question: What are the benefits of TOGAF?
There are some things in TOGAF that confuse practitioners over and over. The difference between scope and partition is one of those confusions that comes up as a regular question. This article that I wrote for Good e-Learning explains the key differences, and explain why TOGAF can be confusing.
By William Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates LLC, Serge Thorn, Associate, Metaplexity Associates LLC, and Sonia Gonzalez, Architecture and ArchiMate® Forums Director, The Open Group If you are using the TOGAF® standard in your organization to guide the process of developing … Continue reading →
Back when we were kids, there was one well-worn answer to those long damp dreary days of the English so-called summer: pull out the board-games! One of which, of course, was Monopoly: Which worked well, for a while. As kids,…
That is what several people asked me in the last few weeks. I have even made one quick attempt to answer but then I realised that the topic deserves more clarification. While I have a lot of sympathy for those that object to ‘Best Practice’ as a name – even more – to those that object […]
So I got my ArchiMate® certification… now what? Does that sound familiar at all? We see a lot of organizations and professionals struggle with the questions on how to get started with their enterprise architecture models. This makes sense: there’s an overwhelming amount of practical guidance (often piecemeal, though) available online, the pressure might be on (there is a lot of places where we expect ArchiMate models to add value) and the company has just invested in training and tooling (Check out our flagship tool, BiZZdesign Architect).