Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
It is fair to say that the project in question has not started well. A lengthy incubation period executed in isolation from business and delivery partners has seen resources consumed in exchange for very little demonstrable progress, and high-level commitment waning. Faced with challenges like these, project managers will often retreat into their defensive belief […]
As time goes by architects are reviewing less custom / "home grown" solutions and looking at commercial off the shelf (COTS), platforms or cloud based solutions. I thought I would share with you a vendor architecture question template that I…
Today, the lack of trust in online Identity forces organizations to set up their own identity management systems, dishing out their own usernames and passwords/PINs for us. The result is that we end up having to remember well over 50 different online identities, which poses a large problem. Continue reading →
Next to the perennial favorite “What Enterprise Architecture is and/or is not,” I’m inclined to believe debates over frameworks are the hottest debates going right now. Why is that?
#entarch #EABOK There is a considerable “body of knowledge” in the enterprise architecture world. Among other things, this includes
Founding documents that everyone references, such as Zachman’s 1987
paper for the IBM Systems Journal, and the MIT bo…
How do we make sense of story – the stories and narratives and anecdotes that people tell each other and themselves about their world? How can we link between the layers of story to help us make sense of some…
Possibly one of the most common questions I get with regards to TOGAF is finding a good sample set of templates. Luckily the Open Group has a set that you can download that is quite extensive. Personally they aren’t the…
The UK government has withdrawn from its PLAN to cull badgers, but remains committed to its POLICY of culling badgers. Badger cull postponed until 2013 (Guardian 23 October 2012)Here’s a stab at a VPEC-t analysis …Values: We love badgers, they are so…
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2
Larry Wall, author of the PERL programming language once said,
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be …
Enterprise architects need to be good communicators #2
Larry Wall, author of the PERL programming language once said,
People understand instinctively that the best way for computer programs to communicate with each other is for each of the them to be strict in what they emit, and liberal in what they accept. The odd thing is that people themselves are not willing to be strict in how they speak, and liberal in how they listen. You’d think that would also be obvious. Instead, we’re taught to express ourselves.
People speak with intent. Good communication means responding to someone’s intention, not their words.
Speak (and write) correctly and clearly. Listen graciously.
Ran across a post from someone who is pondering platform building. As someone who has been building platforms for a while, I figured I should provide some feedback!There are very few standards in this area. Few can even agree on what a “pla…
Ran across a post from someone who is pondering platform building. As someone who has been building platforms for a while, I figured I should provide some feedback!There are very few standards in this area. Few can even agree on what a “pla…