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Few EA developments cover the whole enterprise and few, indeed, if you listen to the discussion fora, are EA developments that result in the EA as an integrated blueprint of the entire enterprise.
The multiple definitions of EA and its scope are…
Fail fast and fail often is one of my main mantras which I use at least once a day if not more often both towards the people I coach as well as towards me. And I must confess, I failed again. But this time I was stupid enough to not see the signals. In my last post which is quite a while ago I announced that I start something new. And I failed badly for various reasons. It was once again a dialogue with Tom Graves via his blog which made it obvious to me. If you are interested read his interesting post about Starting Friction including all the comments. To be fair I actually already knew it without knowing, but the dialogue helped me to get it on the surface.
I really tried, but it blocked me. It blocked me in a way which made me stop blogging, which made me stop sharing public, which also made me comment less on other sides. The thinking process itself, how to structure, how to write made me fail. Fail badly. Now, during the dialogue with Tom I retweeted a tweet from Bert van Lemoen to Tom:
“@transarchitect: If you want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” Very much true @tetradian
— Kai Schlüter (@ChBrain) December 26, 2013
This was not at all meant negative, but perceived that way:
@ChBrain hmm… feels just a leeeetle bit too much like a put-down – which definitely doesn’t help right now, thank you… 🙁 🙁
— Tom Graves (@tetradian) 26. Dezember 2013
I am sorry for that Tom, but it did enlighten me. Obviously the books are not (yet?) ready for me to start with. There is a lot more urgent and interesting things to do. Therefore I decided to move on and hopefully also find the energy again to share every now and then. Because writing my posts in the past never took long, but all of the sudden I started to think about writing and by that lost all movement. I do not know where this leads me to, but I know for sure that the idea of writing a book is for the moment history. It does not seem to be my medium to transport the message. Furthermore, when I look at my own reading it is quite obvious. Books about Enterprise Architecture never inspired me, Stories do the trick for me, fiction about people, emotions and such topics no matter what media (e.g. books, movies). Good stories make me think different and then I adapt and abstract it towards Enterprise Architecture and create just another (sometimes working) tool.
So, message of the day: Back to my strength.
Fail fast and fail often is one of my main mantras which I use at least once a day if not more often both towards the people I coach as well as towards me. And I must confess, I failed again. But this time I was stupid enough to not see the signals. In my last post which is quite a while ago I announced that I start something new. And I failed badly for various reasons. It was once again a dialogue with Tom Graves via his blog which made it obvious to me. If you are interested read his interesting post about Starting Friction including all the comments. To be fair I actually already knew it without knowing, but the dialogue helped me to get it on the surface.
I really tried, but it blocked me. It blocked me in a way which made me stop blogging, which made me stop sharing public, which also made me comment less on other sides. The thinking process itself, how to structure, how to write made me fail. Fail badly. Now, during the dialogue with Tom I retweeted a tweet from Bert van Lemoen to Tom:
“@transarchitect: If you want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” Very much true @tetradian
— Kai Schlüter (@ChBrain) December 26, 2013
This was not at all meant negative, but perceived that way:
@ChBrain hmm… feels just a leeeetle bit too much like a put-down – which definitely doesn’t help right now, thank you… 🙁 🙁
— Tom Graves (@tetradian) 26. Dezember 2013
I am sorry for that Tom, but it did enlighten me. Obviously the books are not (yet?) ready for me to start with. There is a lot more urgent and interesting things to do. Therefore I decided to move on and hopefully also find the energy again to share every now and then. Because writing my posts in the past never took long, but all of the sudden I started to think about writing and by that lost all movement. I do not know where this leads me to, but I know for sure that the idea of writing a book is for the moment history. It does not seem to be my medium to transport the message. Furthermore, when I look at my own reading it is quite obvious. Books about Enterprise Architecture never inspired me, Stories do the trick for me, fiction about people, emotions and such topics no matter what media (e.g. books, movies). Good stories make me think different and then I adapt and abstract it towards Enterprise Architecture and create just another (sometimes working) tool.
So, message of the day: Back to my strength.
I’ve been working on getting all the pieces together for my second book project. Now the book is starting to come together under the direction of some visual guides. If you have followed my posts throughout the years you will certainly recognize some of these guides. The major thought There are only two ways to […]
It is that time of year … families and friends are gathered to share the most special moments. We are reminded of how fortunate we are and how this life that we share with others is so extremely special. Whether you are spending time with a few or many, it is impossible not to think of how we all need one another, not just in this season but throughout the […]
Short recap of the main questions you should ask to yourself when Collecting / Processing / Organizing / Reviewing and even when Doing your stuffs during your daily review. Mind as water…Filed under: Getting Things Done (GTD) Tagged: Getting Things Done (GTD), GTD, Mind as Water
The Integrated Information Infrastructure Reference Model (III-RM) is one of the two reference models provided by TOGAF. Get this free poster from Good e-Learning which summarizes the key features.
Originally posted on loppysmile:
Most strategies fail. Rewind. Most marketing and comms strategies fail. I’m not saying they don’t have an impact. What I mean is, most fail to achieve their stated outcomes. Downer. A lot of the time, we’re never forced to recognise that our pretty little diagrams amounted to jack. We pump out a…
“When we don’t give our people the space to take calculated risks, learn, apply, and iterate, we are really risking our future. While there is a risk to improvising and spontaneity, control brings its own insidious dangers. In our push for perfection, we over-engineer. We add so many bells and whistles that it takes a Ph.D. to use the product. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Just because we can practice to perfection doesn’t mean that’s best.”
From the fantastic Brain Pickings:
“Dubbed Prospero’s Precepts, these eleven rules culled from some of history’s greatest minds can serve as a general-purpose guideline for critical thinking in all matters of doubt:
via Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? 11 Rules for Critical Thinking | Brain Pickings.
Originally posted on Alec Blair:
So, you’re busy working away at your models. The team is busy discussing the nitty, gritty things around taxonomies and ontologies. Others are creating detailed elaborations of different aspects of one of the dimensions of your enterprise architecture. You look at the work and say, “Damn this is good stuff!”…
There has always been an opinion that, since the environment is so dynamic today, the enterprise management is an art. And that modelling the enterprise does not serve any purpose since it aalready depicts a past static state.That in contrast…