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TOGAF® 9 Certification Reaches 25,000 Milestone
By Andrew Josey, The Open Group Last Wednesday represented a significant milestone for The Open Group’s TOGAF® 9 certification program. In case you hadn’t already seen it on our homepage, Twitter, or LinkedIn, the number of TOGAF® 9 certified individuals … Continue reading →
Visible Impact: Gaining visibility into Change
SCENE 2, MIDMORNING, FADE IN:
Frustrated, IT sits down, mumbling under its breath.
IT: Huh?! what do you expect me to have a crystal ball?
Doctor: What’s that I can’t hear you; what’s wrong?
(IT speaks up)
IT: I don’t understa…
BCP and Disaster Recovery – how much is too much?
You can make sure that you have BCP and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans in place, but how often do you test them? Do you build maintenance of these environments into your BAU (business as usual) work? Is DR an afterthought when launching new services …
An Ideal Enterprise Architect?
“The ideal architect should be a person of letters, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy…
An Ideal Enterprise Architect?
“The ideal architect should be a person of letters, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy…
Landscaping and Loose Coupling
A few years back, my wife and I bought a shiny new home. The house was almost brand new and the previous occupant had traded a goodly portion of their kid’s future inheritance to a landscaper for a collection of shrubs, trees, and mulch large eno…
Landscaping and Loose Coupling
A few years back, my wife and I bought a shiny new home. The house was almost brand new and the previous occupant had traded a goodly portion of their kid’s future inheritance to a landscaper for a collection of shrubs, trees, and mulch large eno…
Influence vs. Force – Incenting others to get on board with your architecture initiatives
Almost every architect has met the following frustrating experience during his career:A proper and well defined business case, architectural advice or Project Start Architecture is not being used by the organization the architect wanted to serve with …
What should an Enterprise Architecture maturity framework consider?
Even if a process delivers EA, the application of EA, may be lacking because of its poor sell, communications and as such, lack of adoption. So the benefits would not be realised.
Executive Education Partnership with Penn State
Enterprise Transformation & Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment Accelare is collaborating with the Penn State Smeal College of Business and Gartner Inc. to produce a four-day program entitled Enterprise Transformation & Integration: Beyond IT/Business Alignment. The program covers how to apply current theory and research, leading edge industry experience, and proven best practices in order to […]
Enabling Organizational Change
Last week I concluded my 15 part series of “Memoirs of an Enterprise Architect.” This week I will talk about organizational change and how you can get stakeholders excited.
If someone tells you they like change, they are lying to themselves …