Framework for Success – Survey

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Assessing the State of Enterprise Architecture in the Industry

Zachman International® and the FEAC Institute® would like your contribution to our body of knowledge on the current state of EA in the enterprise. Government, private industry all professional input is welcome. No private information is being collected so responses are completely private and anonymous.

Feel free to share this link with fellow Enterprise Architects, Strategic Planners, Business Architects, Solution Architects. 

THANK YOU!

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Let’s make Enterprise Architecture SOLID

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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 […]

What Exactly are the Benefits of TOGAF?

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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?

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What’s the Difference Between Scope and Partition?

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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.

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  1. Thinking Like An Architect I frequently remind clients and EA practitioners that they need…
  2. TOGAF 9 Poster #44 – TOGAF and ArchiMate TOGAF and ArchiMate are two standards managed by The Open…
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Using the ArchiMate® Language to Model TOGAF® Architectures

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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 →

What’s Wrong with Best Practices?

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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 […]

ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Top down vs bottom up

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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).

ArchiMate Modeling in Practice Overview

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We are continuing our series on ArchiMate: from theory to practice! We introduced the series back in October and over the last few months we ran the first part which we called “The ArchiMate Files”. In this first part we covered some theoretic underpinnings of the ArchiMate standard, and in this second series we will cover practical aspects of modeling with ArchiMate. This is illustrated in the updated diagram below: