Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Current mainstream enterprise-architecture [EA] is broken, more broken and yet more broken, and has real problems with wickedness. But what can we do about this? How can we mend EA, make it unbroken? As in those posts linked-to above, I’d…
I promised to start exploring GLUE Journeys on the Island of Do Business Defence, and tried to apply a story like construct. I underestimated the difficulties I have to write that story like, so I decided to change the concept. Total dry approach now I…
Again I fail to continue writing on the GLUE Journeys as promised but jump into another hot topic: Innovation. Actually I do not really think that it is new knowledge, but for whatever reason it seems to be hot. i personally utilize the knowledge Evere…
How do we cope with the wickedness of enterprise-architecture? I don’t mean here the implicit wickedness of people promoting term-hijacks and other half-baked notions as ‘the truth’ of enterprise-architecture – though heaven-knows there’s enough of that wickedness around. I also…
The SOA-paradigm has gained wide spread adoption over the last few years. With good reason: it has long been recognized that decoupling application logic from the specific way/ place where it is implemented has numerous benefits. In the same vain: port…
Most Common Words used in EA Voices (without normal stop words): business (1519) enterprise (1509) architecture (1486) time (1071) need (1006) new (972) work (950) way (949) people (918) information (833) management (825) process (811) value (785) different (760) based (737) change (736) technology (726) good (707) systems (684) 00
Yesterday I saw a message on Twitter which created an emotional reaction of mine. I tried to answer in 140 letters (the magic of twitter), but failed. I was not able to express what I really felt and did not made my point, which caused (of course) anot…
Today, I celebrate 20 years of service at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. When I joined BCIT on August 31, 1992, I was in my late 20′s. I had been married for 4 years and we had a baby girl who was just over a year old. I started as…
How did enterprise-architecture get to be so broken? I know I promised to move on to tactics that we can use to recover from the brokenness – and I will do so in the next post. But I must admit…
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
System Dynamics model for adoption of a new product (source: Patrhoue)System Dynamics, a field invented by MIT professor Jay Forrester, was created by adapting engineering control theory into social-economic domains. It was first used to solve su…
If the mainstream approach to enterprise-architectures is broken – and so badly broken, at that – then why is it broken? In what way is it broken? What are the core reasons behind why it’s so broken? And why ask this?…