Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
How do you make sure that you chose the right candidate for an EA job? Here are a few questions that, if answered to your satisfaction, may clear the way to the appointment. Indeed, there maybe other questions that you…
OMB released both the Federal Shared Services Strategy (more on this later) and the Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture (links below). In the Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture (which replaces the Practical Guide to Federal EA) is the first published overview of the new Collaborative Planning Methodology (CPM) (starting on page 15) … the next generation of the FSAM. The work goes on to get the full CPM assembled and […]
During the Open Group Conference in Cannes I delivered a presentation on “Successfully implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®”.Moreover, I joined as expert into a very interesting ‘ask the expert panel session’ with good questions from th…
Video recap of Day 2 of The Open Group Conference in Cannes by Peter Haviland, E&Y. Continue reading →
In most architecture and project methodologies you are asked to create a communications package, naming stakeholders and activities on how you will address their needs. Rarely do I find that they try to secure that communications will go smooth. These are some ways that one can evaluate the communicative capability. – Document the positive and […]
In the first part of the discussion, drawing upon the genesis of Agile and CMM, we were left wondering if the two are “The Misfits”, and most likely to disappoint the pacifists, or can they become soul-mates after all. The … Continue reading →
The first post in this series explains how Archimate was introduced as a modeling language for enterprise architecture. The goal was explicitly not to replace existing modeling languages in the business and IT context, such as BPMN and UML. These langu…
Hooray hooray hooray! – the message is finally getting through! This from an interview with MIT-CISR‘s Jeanne Ross in the current (29 April 2012) online edition of CIO.com: Myth: CIOs should own enterprise architecture. Not so fast. CIOs often wind up accountable for the entire enterprise architecture, despite not typically having the authority or vantage point […]
Winners of the Open Cannes Awards 2012 at The Open Group Conference in Cannes, France. Continue reading →
#bizarch @nickvitalari sees signs of resurgence at #Microsoft. Everyone Beware: Microsoft is Alive Again and May Become an Elastic Enterprise (April 2012)
Vitalari sees Microsoft’s deal with Barnes and Noble as a promising signal, although he adm…
#bizarch @nickvitalari sees signs of resurgence at #Microsoft. Everyone Beware: Microsoft is Alive Again and May Become an Elastic Enterprise (April 2012)
Vitalari sees Microsoft’s deal with Barnes and Noble as a promising signal, although he adm…
In my last post, I was examining The Evolution of Today’s CIO and What kind of CIO’s will transform businesses?, and how it has morphed into a more strategic, business-driven role than ever before—one that directly affects top-line business goals….