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A great conversation this morning with Nigel Green, about his post ‘When is striving for Simplicity in IT-EA a good thing, and when…?‘ (“…is it less important, or even unhelpful?”, was the completion of the sentence). He’d been having a long discussion with another well-known figure in the IT-architecture space, who’d insisted that we should […]
“What would be the smallest service? Did anyone ever look for the/a boundary condition of a service?” – an important pair of questions from Jan van Til in an earlier comment here. The first question is a bit difficult, because the only correct answer would be that ultimately it’s right down at the sub-cellular level – […]
One of the points that came up in the previous posts on the management-architecture theme is that most management-structures are top-down, which doesn’t fit well with the ‘everything is just another service’ nature of most service-architectures – especially at a whole-of-enterprise scope. Yet if so, how can we create a better balance in the overall management-architecture? […]
… is it less important, or even unhelpful? Some say the EAs goal is to ‘simplifiy’ the IT solutions to the business requirements, but there’s a catch with that mantra – some solutions may add ‘useful complexity’. There are situations, for example,…
Why does the Gap between Business and IT exist? I’m sure you will find people who will try to convince you that there is no gaps between business and IT. But, I can give you my piece of advice, it’s been quite many years now that I am working in this context and I can […]
In my previous post, I put forth the general — and trivial — idea that the increasing complexity of the strategic context calls for increasingly sophisticated governance models. In the following, I will further develop the notion and outline five…
We at Corso are seeing many EA practitioners gravitating to the ArchiMate framework as the tool for delivering Enterprise Architecture. Why is this? Unlike many frameworks to date that do not specify how model views are represented, ArchiMate provides a clear notation and language for the communication of EA. The ArchiMate framework is currently at version […]
I’ve been diving into some fascinating work by Bohm on making people understand each other. I did some pen sketches during my reading that I later transfered into a tool to visualize. Use this to unpack any meeting or use them in pow-wows it’s extremely helpful.
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I spent a few minutes this evening reading through Tom Graves’ fascinating post Management as ‘just another service’ and it got me thinking of Governance in the organic enterprise. As Tom describes, there are two paradigms of management at play:…