Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Continuing with the series on power and politics in enterprise-architecture, a brief summary-so-far, some practical suggestions on modelling of power-issues, and a very important warning… The quick summary is as follows: the practice of enterprise-architecture is often ‘relentlessly political’ one…
Some advice from Jeff Bezos by Jason Fried of 37signals
“[Bezos] said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today.
He’s observed that the smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a well formed point of view, but it means you should consider your point of view as temporary.
What trait signified someone who was wrong a lot of the time? Someone obsessed with details that only support one point of view. If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.”
The Future, as Imagined by Google – NYTimes.com
“Eventually technology just disappears,” Mr. Schmidt said. “It’s the ultimate achievement. No more ports and prompts and plug-ins.”
For some time now I have been promoting the idea that the practice of business architecture is not about creating blueprints and models but applying a set of tools and techniques to form broader perspectives, create deeper insight, and solve business problems. If business architecture is a practice then what is its portfolio of services? […]
This week at the Funding Post event in NYC one of the panel discussions focused on how VC model is going to evolve over the next several years. There were several interesting points made that I would love to get this blog’s readers thoughts on:Ta…
This week at the Funding Post event in NYC one of the panel discussions focused on how VC model is going to evolve over the next several years. There were several interesting points made that I would love to get this blog’s readers thoughts on:Ta…
There are several sessions on ArchiMate™ at the upcoming Open Group Conference in Barcelona. Henry Franken’s “Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®” session on October 22 at 2:00-2:45 p.m. UTC / 8:00-8:45 a.m. EST will also be livestreamed on The Open Group Website. Continue reading →
A great one-liner by enterprise-architect Jon Ayre: RT @EnterprisingA: Comparing #itarch with #entarch is like comparing your cooker with your house. Your cooker helps you to eat but your house is where you live It reminds me of the key tag-line…
I asked our teams in the IT Department at the American University of Sharjah to put together a short presentation to help me get to know the team members and to understand what their operational and project responsibilities are. In some cases, the teams worked on an integrated platform (suite) with the majority of the […]
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A couple of days ago a tweet flew by which deserved closer attention:Questions to ask about any method or approach: Who invented it? What problem one tried to solve? Do I have that problem? In the interaction with the author it became (once again) obvi…
With travel budgets tight, we know Barcelona is hard to get to for many of our Open Group members. As such, The Open Group will be Livestreaming some of our sessions on Monday, Oct. 22. Continue reading →
I had a great time at the BCS-EA 2012 conference in London yesterday. I’ll write up a proper summary later today, but for now, here are the slidedeck and accompanying worksheet that I uploaded to Slideshare. Slidedeck: Lessons-learnt in EA…
There’s been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of Cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies. To find out why, The Open Group recently gathered an international panel of experts to explore the concept. Continue reading →