New: Links to My Papers

I added a new page (above and to the right).  It contains links to some of my papers.  I will be posting more from time to time.  I am ordering the papers so that the readers might be better able to follow my discussion in each.  I …

New: Links to My Papers

I added a new page (above and to the right).  It contains links to some of my papers.  I will be posting more from time to time.  I am ordering the papers so that the readers might be better able to follow my discussion in each.  I hope that helps.  Let me know with comments, what you think.

Bob

The Papers include:
1. Enterprise Portfolio Management and Enterprise Architecture
Coming shortly

2. The Role and Development of an Enterprise Architect: A Devil Advocate’s Perspective

3. Systems Engineering and System Architecture in an Agile and Short-cycle Transformation Environment

Carpe Nube*

Cloud

Enterprise Architecture is more important than ever with the increased adoption of Cloud Computing.  Most companies that I work with have a range of systems and initiatives that span the continuum of “must stay in house” to “this is best run in the public cloud.”  There are 3 types of Cloud Models:

  1. Private Cloud (we like cloud, but need to manage it ourselves because of security/cost/agility/etc.. reasons)
  2. Public Cloud (here are the systems we need, we will pay you to run it for us)
  3. Hybrid Cloud (some systems we need to keep in-house but for other stuff it would be cost effective (or cost avoiding)  if we did not have to run/maintain them ourselves)

In all cases, Cloud is an IT operational model (what systems run where) that is driven by business needs and imperatives.  Even if you go 100% Public Cloud, you still need to make sure that the Applications and Information provided by those systems are meeting the ever changing business needs.  The Hybrid Cloud model provides even more complexity because applications, communication, integration, data flow, and security need to be coordinated across the Cloud boundaries. 

Enterprise Architecture is the glue that can help keep all of these things together and is why Cloud Computing does not get rid of the need for EA, in fact, it is this humble author’s opinion that it dramatically increases the need of EA stewardship over Cloud.

* (Latin for Seize the Cloud)

Plenitudinal Musings

A nice little read during the holidays was Rich Gold book: The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) . It got me thinking about quite a few issues, of which I would like to share one with you: the four hats of creativity. Usually the focus of software development is […]

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Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

Lack of Cloud Ready Apps is a Software Architecture Failure

Seemingly a lifetime ago (2009!), I shared how security concerns have to be “baked into” any cloud platform, as well as a simple set of capabilities to consider when addressing said security concerns.  Of course, information security is just one a…

On strategy and design

This one started a couple days ago, with a straightforward Tweet-query from Dave Gray: davegray: “Strategy is design.” Agree or disagree? Why? What followed was, for me, one of the best back-and-forth Twitter-conversations in recent weeks: nickmalik: @davegray design is a method.  Strategy is a result.  Fair to say good strategy may result from design, […]

The Group of Six

According to Buddhist tradition, there was a group of six monks who constantly behaved in ways that exasperated the Buddha, causing him to produce a series of monastic rules to regulate their conduct.

“Six bhikkhus wearing wooden sandals, and each ho…