Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As the Cowardly Lion once remarked, “I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do, I do believe in ghosts!” In the technology space, ghosts are fateful decisions, implicit or explicit, that are buried within a solution until the right set of circumstances raise them from the dead.
For instance, in January 1990, AT&T experienced a cascade of failures in their long distance network switches. It seems
As the Cowardly Lion once remarked, “I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do, I do believe in ghosts!” In the technology space, ghosts are fateful decisions, implicit or explicit, that are buried within a solution until the right set of circumstances raise them from the dead.
For instance, in January 1990, AT&T experienced a cascade of failures in their long distance network switches. It seems
A “smart city” vision is born as a response […]
By Jim Hietala, VP Security, The Open Group At the The Open Group London 2013 Conference, The Open Group® announced three new initiatives related to the Security Forum’s work around Risk Management. The first of these was the establishment of … Continue reading →
Last week , The Open Group kicked off their signature Enterprise Architecture Conference in London. Like others in the recent past the Open Group has taken on a industry focus for these quarterly conferences. The goal here is to provide…
Architecture levels of abstraction and detail: How to make those work for youOne of the most popular topics to debate amongst architects is: what is the proper level of abstraction needed to be applied when creating architectures. Although always leng…
Structural context is the context designed into organizations. It largely describes things like span of control, decision-making authority, and distribution of resources. It also reflects the stated values of the organization’s leaders on such things as risk taking, empowerment, customer engagement, and employee satisfaction. Organizational members typically have a common interpretation of the structural context […]
By Ian Dobson & Jim Hietala, The Open Group Ten years ago, the Jericho Forum set out on a mission to evangelise the issues, problems, solutions and provide thought-leadership around the emerging business and security issues of de-perimeterisation, with the … Continue reading →
It was the smell that caught my attention first, I guess – the smell of chemicals as I walked through through the front door of their supposedly upmarket offices. But it’s something I’ve come to recognise, to watch for, as…
This is in response to the post “As-Is modelling to be registered as an official disease?” and a too popular stance that As-Is EA doesn’t matter, it is a waste of time. How do you design the target architecture if you do not discover an document f…
Standards can be a powerful tool to get to grips with certain aspects of our work. However, managing a standards base appears to be tricky: we see many initiatives fail, despite the best intensions of all involved. In this short recording we will disc…
Another month, another enterprise-architecture conference? This time it was Open Group London, billed as “Business Transformation in Finance, Government and Healthcare”. Of which it did cover some – according to the programme and the Twitterstream, anyway. (See the Open Group’s ‘highlights’…