Things You Don’t Know About xMatters

“Can you take me out of that distribution list?”, “The wrong person approved my request again”, “I just put those messages into the trash bin”, “Why am I getting these messages?” – Do those complaints sound familiar? How well are you …

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Business Capability based EA Roadmap

As Business Capabilities are directly derived from the corporate strategic plan and are designed to satisfy the enterprise’s business strategies, goals and objectives, so they provide an excellent basis for the creation of an Enterprise Architecture Roadmap. What are Business Capabilities? A Business Capability represents the ability of an organisation to perform an activity that […]

How to evaluate your Enterprise Architecture

The enterprise architecture development should be  evaluated to  assess1. its scope, if it covers the whole enterprise or at least it plans to, starting with the parts specifically demanded. A reference (business) architecture …

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EA Voices

I have recently come across a web site EA Voices (eavoices.com/‎) produced by John Gøtze.  This is described as an Aggregated Enterprise Architecture Wisdom and I have found it to be a good collection of articles and recommend it to all Enterprise Architects out there.   Filed under: Blogroll, EA Magazines, Enterprise Architecture

How to measure Enterprise Architecture

What is Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture is essentially a strategic planning discipline for ensuring that all the strategies of an enterprise are well executed. How should we measure it and how it is performing? First it’s best to clearly understand what Enterprise Architecture is and who it is for. Enterprise Architecture bridges the gap between […]

Enterprise Architecture Survey

A friend of mine Ian Glossop, is doing a survey of views on Enterprise Architecture, and as many of you are Enterprise Architects he would appreciate your views on the subject. I know your time is precious, and the survey is a little long,  but nevertheless may I urge you to take a little time […]

Innovate 2013 — Great EA Track

We had a really successful Enterprise Architecture (EA) track at Innovate this year — June 2 thru 6, 2013; our best one yet! EA Birds of a Feather session — EA Best Practices — we had about 80 people in the room. Standing room only. We had 16 EA presentations, most of them by customers […]