Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Originally posted on Liliendahl on Data Quality:
All airports have a tree letter code usually being a mnemonic of the city name or airport name. The airport at Saint Petersburg in Russia thus has the code LED because the code was assigned when the city was called LEningraD. That’s how it is with master data:…
One thousand blog-posts. That’s quite a milestone, really. Not quite there yet: this one’s number nine hundred and ninety-nine, to be precise. Though out of those so far, there were the hundred or so in the Twitter-extracts series – ‘A week in Tweets’…
Is money the only possible form of profit? And if not, what does that imply for design of business-models? – and, beyond that, to economics itself? This is one that I’ve been struggling with, both personally and professionally, for a…
Anyone working with data would be familiar with the CRUD acronym – Create, Read, Update, Delete – that describe ‘atomic’-level actions on data. But how well does it work with other asset-types – not just data and other virtual items,…
TOGAF uses a very specific language to describe the outputs that architects produce. This poster highlights the key things you need to know. Download this free poster from Good e-Learning now!
What is a strategy? How do we create a strategy? – rather than merely a delusion of ‘strategy’? Several of the folks in my Twitterstream – Gerold Kathan and Shawn Callahan, amongst others – pointed recently to a great HBR…
I am taking the opportunity to share one of my favorite book dealing with leadership and our human kind… written by my dear friend Jennifer Sertl and Koby Huberman. Strategy, Leadership and the Soul – Jennifer Sertl and Koby Huberman Have a quick glance to the following appetizer: Strategy, Leadership and the Soul presents a new paradigm for organizations. Jennifer […]
While I am preparing to publish my next article on Information Management and taking the opportunity of a email discussion with Jean Evelette – the author of the very interesting website MARS – Metadata And Repository System – I realized that a clarification regarding information ownership was needed. Here is the famous question: Who is owning the information? I […]
Sometimes I really do despair of the ‘Just Do It’ crowd… In a previous post, I described the practical challenges faced by anyone starting out on something new, and used a few personal examples in my own work to illustrate this.…
Originally posted on GTD for CIOs:
At this time of the year many people want to get back on the GTD bandwagon because they are in a reflective mode of self improvement. They know it works and know the stress reduction it can provide. They know when practiced diligently it can provide what David Allen…
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.