Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Ramblings of a disturbed consultant…
“If all you have is a fire hose, every problem is a fire.”
-One police officer says to another while a firefighter attempts to stop a bank robbery with a large hose.
You spent a few million dollars on a re…
What’s on the agenda for 2014?Details of this years IRM EA Conference are now available. As usual, there is an interesting mix of topics – ranging from the introductory to the more advanced. I always find it interesting to look at the topics covered as it gives an indication of what organizations are doing and…
The “slides” supporting my talk on Requisite Inefficiency a couple of months ago have been on Slideshare since then but I haven’t had the time to share them here. Which I do now. The various manifestations of Requisite Inefficiency in both organisms and organisations can be understood by observing the maintenance of balances between homeostasis […]
There is no recognized Capabilities framework in EA. Not to my knowledge, anyhow. Moreover there is still no agreement on what a capability is. The term has too many different meanings.
Hence, I would rather avoid the term “capability”.
The…
My new book GAMIFY is about to be released (April 8), but in fact, the hard copy version is already shipping on Amazon.com. To celebrate, I’m offering 20 copies (digital or hardcover) to the first 20 people who post on Twitter with the hashtag #GartnerGamify. After you post your tweet, make sure to follow me […]
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My new book GAMIFY is about to be released (April 8), but in fact, the hard copy version is already shipping on Amazon.com. To celebrate, I’m offering 20 copies (digital or hardcover) to the first 20 people who post on Twitter with the hashtag #GartnerGamify. After you post your tweet, make sure to follow me […]
As I set off on my Sunday morning run, I said to myself “don’t think about your blog”. I’d been having trouble getting this blog to work. I wanted to write about the relationship between circular economy and other fundamental changes that people are trying to achieve – but it kept coming out abstract and, […]
First of all: UML is not about modelling object-oriented software. But maybe we should go back to what object-orientation is. OO (shorthand for object-orientation) is invented around 1970. Xerox had a group called the Software Research Group which was part of a think tank created to do research into the possible threats of the modern […]
When a discipline such as enterprise-architecture is changing all the time, just how useful is it to hark back to its history? The start-point for this one was that, in one of those interminable threads on LinkedIn, several of the…
Guest post by Tim Mattix It’s no surprise that agile development software methods are quickly claiming ground over waterfall methods. The linear waterfall model and its sequential design process run counter to the reality that customers often don’t know exactly what they want up-front; rather, they tend to fine-tune their requirements through ongoing two-way interactions during the life cycle of the project. On the other hand, the evolutionary development approach inherent in agile gives designers […]
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Am I kidding? Well, no. The chances are good your company really does not want a business architecture – even if you have a business architecture practice. I don’t mean that the management team has carefully examined business architecture as an approach to better business design and rejected it. Nor do I mean that […]
Last week I talked about the power of storytelling and how Enterprise Architects need to become effective communicators. This week I will continue to dig into the storytelling concept and how it can be used to help you communicate the value of Enterp…