A tale of three toolsets
Time to get back on the toolsets trail… First, though, I’ll let Phil Beauvoir have his own rant about the current state of supposed ‘EA-toolsets’ – as per a series of Tweets he pushed out a few days ago: Better…
“Force Generation” Architecture: a case study
So, you’ve had your training courses and read the relevant books.Your boss has called you and asked: “Now let’s discuss our major concerns. How can we make the architecture approach going to work while everybody is always on the run?”….. Sounds familiar?
Do We Need A Bit More Anarchy in EA?
“Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
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Enterprise Architecture, Dynamic and Distinctive Capabilities – by Ian Glossop
Enterprise Architecture, as an activity in organisations and ‘discipline of praxis’, is about producing rigorous, explicit models of the enterprise to be used in the organisation’s decision-making processes. Its purpose is to enable the organisation to make better decisions about where to invest its precious resources to change the enterprise for the better. [Note: The “Enterprise” and […]
The Internet Is Not The Answer
Of course – it helps to know the question first… but there are a number of recent books that have questioned the gadget-driven, Internet-centric world we live in. In “The Internet Is Not The Answer”, Andrew Keen argues that much of what the Internet has changed is for the worst. He says that “all we’ve…
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Join Intact at HP Government Summit 2015
On April 7, Intact Technology will be a sponsor at the fifth annual HP Software Government Summit held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC
The keynote speakers at this year’s event are: Sal Giunta, former US Army soldier a…
Two goodbyes
The tall guy in the black hooded cloak with a scythe and a penchant for SPEAKING IN CAPITAL LETTERS came calling for two people I knew in the last two days. Two goodbyes… The first was, I’ll admit, very much…
Efficient Collaboration within Agile Methods
Our ongoing series of blogs about Agile methods offers an in-depth discussion of the method and its impact on an organization. In this blog, we focus on collaboration in agile teams.
An Interview with John Zachman
In January 2015, the Open Group published an interview giving A Historical Look at Enterprise Architecture with John Zachman. It includes a fascinating account about how John got involved in enterprise architecture in the first place, and how he came to develop what is now known as the Zachman Framework. Importantly – although his work…
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Drawing (even poorly) to See via The Book of Life
I recently unearthed my (real world) drawing pencils and purchased a pixel point stylus to add more illustration to my public works. If you’ve worked with me, you know that drawing — on a whiteboard, legal pad, printer paper, using Visio, wherever — is a huge part of my process. Drawing helps me understand new ideas, think […]
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger…
How do you feel about using the same toothbrush as a stranger (after it is cleaned)?How do you feel about using the same fork as a stranger (say, in a cafe, after it is cleaned)?Framing is important because it affects how we feel and how we feel affect…