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We use a system context diagram in the early stages of our Investigative Architecture™ process. It provides a high level functional view of a system and, while it is very powerful for the early stages of functional design, it also ensures you have identified any functional needs that impact the non-functional, or architectural, aspects of […]
Just how should we handle qualitative requirements in system-design and enterprise-architecture? Should we, for example, reframe them into quantitative terms, as metrics – because it’s a lot easier to keep track of ‘measurable things’? Over the past couple of days…
Assessing Business Capabilities Business capabilities have quickly become the core element of most business architecture models. Their appeal is largely driven by three factors. First, business leaders at all levels find capabilities an appealing and useful way to think about growing their organization’s impact. Second, capabilities are versatile, easily applied to high level strategic activities […]
Taking place April 15-18, 2013, The Open Group Conference in Sydney will bring together industry experts to discuss the evolving role of Enterprise Architecture and how it transforms the enterprise. As the conference quickly approaches, let’s take a deeper look into the plenary sessions that kick-off day one and two. … Continue reading →
As the consumerization of technology continues to grow and converge, our way of constructing business models and systems need to evolve as well. We need to let data drive the business process, and incorporate intelligent machines like Watson into our infrastructure to help us turn data into actionable results. … Continue reading →
I have a few new conference dates coming up. I will be presenting on Visual Stories at the Gartner EA Summit in London on May 14/15, and hosting a roundtable after the presentation.
Find out more and book your space at the conference website.
http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EPAEU13/webpages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=824
I will also be delivering a one day workshop on the use of CAST and visual storytelling at a workshop that preceeds the Enterprise Architect Europe conference and the Business Process Management conference in London on June 11th 2013.
Sign up on the conference website.
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2013/workshops.cfm#w2
I have a few new conference dates coming up. I will be presenting on Visual Stories at the Gartner EA Summit in London on May 14/15, and hosting a roundtable after the presentation.
Find out more and book your space at the conference website.
http://agendabuilder.gartner.com/EPAEU13/webpages/SessionDetail.aspx?EventSessionId=824
I will also be delivering a one day workshop on the use of CAST and visual storytelling at a workshop that preceeds the Enterprise Architect Europe conference and the Business Process Management conference in London on June 11th 2013.
Sign up on the conference website.
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2013/workshops.cfm#w2
If you’ve got Windows 8 then there’s now a free app you can download to help create the Visual Story Map, which is the core model in the visual storytelling approach from my book Stories That Move Mountains. Qool (http://qool.598studiosinc.com/) allows…
If you’ve got Windows 8 then there’s now a free app you can download to help create the Visual Story Map, which is the core model in the visual storytelling approach from my book Stories That Move Mountains. Qool (http://qool.598studiosinc.com/) allows…
This is my fourteenth post in my series on BYOD. This recent article on Infoworld about how the US Department of Veterans’ Affairs has put its BYOD plans on hold illustrates the point that you need to consider and cover off employee privacy when implementing BYOD. As I understand the article, they are putting their […]
Continuing on with our demystification series, I will talk about the comments I hear form people with regards to the TOGAF certification itself and the process. When I hear comments about this topic they usually gravitate to one end of…
This morning I read a blog post by Nick Corcodilos “Ask The Headhunter: The Talent Shortage Myth and Why HR Should Get Out of the Hiring Business” and it seems Nick and I have come to a similar conclusion – the talent shortage is self-imposed. My Field Research Summary “The Changing IT Career” is about […]
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