Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
For frequent readers, you know that I tend to look at issues through a humanistic lens. Many of my client inquiries start with a request for the best way to represent “x”, or the way to describe something so that people will do “y”. Instead, I like to think about “What are you trying to […]
It’s customary at this time of year to do some kind of review: what’s happened in the past annual cycle, hopes and intentions for the next. [Sometimes these reviews can be a bit too predictable in their over-focus on prediction? As Forrester enterprise-architect Brian Hopkins put it in a nicely ironic Tweet this morning, “I predict […]
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 …
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 …
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
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:
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)
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 […]
Het bericht Plenitudinal Musings verscheen eerst op Rob Vens.
Link: http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2012/01/when-the-ground-rocks-it-must-flex.php From Anatomy of Agile Enterprise 00
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…
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…
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…
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…