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I’ll admit I often struggle to find easy ways for people to understand Enterprise Canvas and service-oriented enterprise-architecture – thinking in terms of services doesn’t seem to come naturally to many people. But the other morning, up came one of…
In the previous Shearing Layers post, I was talking quite theoretically about the rate at which stores could change their layouts to suit some time period. E.g. changing seasonal merchandise, etc.How about we get even more radical. Perhaps we…
In the previous Shearing Layers post, I was talking quite theoretically about the rate at which stores could change their layouts to suit some time period. E.g. changing seasonal merchandise, etc.How about we get even more radical. Perhaps we…
As a consultant at BiZZdesign, I help organizations in professionalizing their Enterprise Architecture practices. In these projects, I see architects struggling with ‘selling’ their products to their internal customers, often referred to as ‘the business’ (not as in “mind your own business”, a common response in architecture work). The inability of convincing the business of the added value of architecture products can become a big frustration in organizations. Recently, I found some inspiration in football.
New solo piano album by Roger EverndenI haven’t written much on this site in the last month because I’ve been focusing on one of my other passions – music. My latest album of solo piano music (called Improvation) is now out – and available on most digital music sites, such as Amazon, iTunes, or CDBaby.…
This is the fifth posting in our series on using ArchiMate in practice. The goal of this posting is to come to grips with the use of specialization in architecture models. We discuss the main idea as well as implications and benefits.
Good design is one of the core elements of the Enterprise Architecture discipline. I recently came across and was inspired by Mike Monteiro’s presentation at Webstock 2013. Mike’s presentation was a ‘call to action’ to […]
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You must understand that software is still one piece of the whole puzzle. I get it that you don’t want to create detailed models of the software architecture. I can relate to the fact that code is the true software blueprint. I’ve experienced every time that the code changes faster than the model can be […]
Still, the Digital Officer we seem to be looking for, is already there, it is the Enterprise Architect,
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Gandhi said “Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become the habits. Your habits become your values. And your values become your destiny.”
In what ways can we use explorations at the RBPEA (Really-Big-Picture Enterprise-Architecture) scope and scale to create insights for practical use in everyday-level enterprise-architectures? For example – in the specific case of this blog-series – what can we learn from…