Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
#orgintelligence I found an interesting chart on Gillian Stamp’s blog.
The chart illustrates two observations
“Organizational well-being depends on the interplay between challenges
and decision-making capabilities.”
“Where challenges exceed …
In my last post I explored GLUE Roles and Responsibilities. Each GLUE Discipline does have a specific Role:A Role is assigned following the VARISC methodology to a GLUE Delivery which produces a GLUE Deliverable. GLUE Deliveries are organized in GLUE D…
What’s the source of business-motivation? How are people motivated to do their work at work? If Dan Pink is right, the answer isn’t much to do with money – at least, not for anything more than the most robotic kinds…
Nick Malik, in this post discusses the business architecture definition of the BizBOK 2.1. For completion, the BizBOK 2.1 definition cited is: “A blueprint of the enterprise that provides a common understanding of the organization and is used to…
One of our more frequent challenges in enterprise-architecture is to get The Usual Suspects to understand that, yes, there are indeed many other kinds of technology than just the IT – and even if whatever-it-is has a computer in it,…
In my last post about GLUE Delivery I have put some focus on the delivery which is from my point the key for everything I do. Deliver, Getting things done, create something, add something. You name it.“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is …
I’m putting together my presentations for TechEd New Zealand, one of which is titled “Business Architecture for Non Architects.” In that presentation, I need to provide a good, SHORT, definition of business architecture. S…
Why is it so hard for enterprise-architects and other generalists to get employment as generalists – despite the evident very real need for such skills in the workplace? And what part do current business-paradigms play in this problem? At first glance…
#entarch Following a series of blogposts from @tetradian under the general heading “No Jobs for Generalists”, @ruthmalan chips in to ask whether the labels “generalist” and “specialist” represent useful stereotypes, or whether they merely reflect anoth…
Way back in April, I announced the first of two podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing Society. I just realized this weekend that I had not announced the availability of the second of those podcasts. Error corrected.
The second podcast, once again hosted by the inimitable Stephen Ibaraki, focuses much more on the growth and progress of the Enterprise Architecture profession itself. Specifically this podcast reflects upon:
For full details, and a link to the podcast, visit the Canadian IT Manager’s Connection, a TechNet site.
In my last posts I have explored the GLUE Space and looked into GLUE Domains and how to tailor them.“Without labour nothing prospers.”,Sophocles (496 BC – 406 BC)The GLUE Space in itself is a static construct and allows me to organize and understan…
In my last posts I have explored the GLUE Space.And looked deeper into GLUE Domains. One example domain is the Application Life Cycle Management:“Caress the detail, the divine detail.”,Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977)By looking closer some problems b…