Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
A great question from Jeff Sussna, as a follow-on to my ‘manifesto‘ post: RT @jeffsussna: @tetradian question: can complex systems like your ‘enterprise’ actually be ‘architected’? And yeah, it’s also a tricky question, because a lot of any answer depends…
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? As is perhaps too usual in my writing, the full-length version of the ‘manifesto’ ended up, uh, kinda long……
Enterprise-architecture is dead; long live the architecture of the enterprise? Or something like that, anyway… So, what next? Time for a kind of manifesto, I guess? At the least, time for a fairly major paradigm-change in how we view the…
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group We’re pleased to announce the latest release of the ArchiMate modeling language specification. ArchiMate® 2.1, an Open Group standard, is a full updated release of the ArchiMate Specification addressing comments raised since the introduction … Continue reading →
A full EA consists of the integration of the Business, Technology and People/Organisation architectures.
In our previous two blogs in this series, we outlined the connections between Lean Management and Enterprise Architecture. The focus of Lean is on taking day-to-day small steps for improvement. The elimination of waste and focus on customer value are …
Many enterprise architects are modest (otherwise a great quality!) and feel awkward when they have to toot their own horn, the “value horn”, if you will…Shouldn’t our work speak for itself? What value is there in being pompous and blowing our own hor…
Many enterprise architects are modest (otherwise a great quality!) and feel awkward when they have to toot their own horn, the “value horn”, if you will…Shouldn’t our work speak for itself? What value is there in being pompous and blowing our own hor…
by Andy Mulholland, Former Global CTO, Capgemini The Open Platform 3.0™ initiative, launched by The Open Group, provides a forum in which organizations, including standards bodies, as much as users and product vendors, can coordinate their approach to new business … Continue reading →
Time to rename it?There is an interesting discussion on the Zachman Framework LinkedIn group, about the practical use and tool support for the Zachman Framework. I’ve put up a couple of comments because the Zachman Framework is not a good basis for a practical EA use or tool support, and it is about time that…
Brenda had a mobilising post, “Stop talking about Enterprise Architecture. Go solve a problem”. And here is my view where I beg to differ. Paraphrasing the proverb “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him…
What is enterprise-architecture? According to just about everything you’ll see at present, from books to so-called ‘standards’ to conferences to recruiters’ job-adverts, it’s kinda something to do with IT, sorta, ish… uh, kinda dunno, really, but it’s sort-of IT and…