Passing TOGAF

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Well, I passed the TOGAF Certification Exam.  Super happy.  Here is some advice that I passed on to someone who saw my previous post:
I recommend the class led by Architecting the Enterprise.  That will get you familiar with the materi…

More on business-models

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Back on business-models again, this time with more of an emphasis on the implications for enterprise-architecture, rather than solely for business-architecture.
The initial challenge posed by my colleague was to describe my own business model, by which he meant “how do I make money?”. But there’s a bit more to it than that, which is what […]

Passing TOGAF

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Well, I passed the TOGAF Certification Exam.  Super happy.  Here is some advice that I passed on to someone who saw my previous post:
I recommend the class led by Architecting the Enterprise.  That will get you familiar with the materi…

Do enterprise-architects design the enterprise?

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As the old phrase warns us, “vision without implementation is just hallucination”. That’s why all architects do some form of design, and ideally guide the implementation too. But do enterprise-architects design the enterprise? And if so, how do they do it? Or, for that matter, should they?
These are not trivial questions, as indicated well by […]

Principles and Implications

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I’ve been doing some work recently on architecture principles and their associated implications. According to TOGAF 9′s documentation on architecture principles, implications “should highlight the requirements, both for the business and IT, for carrying out the principle – in terms of resources, costs, and activities/tasks. … The impact to the business and consequences of adopting […]

Enterprise-architecture – let’s keep it simple

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Oh not, not again… looks like the Open Group members are about to muddy the enterprise-architecture pool once more, this time around business-architecture… Please, please, we desperately do not need another taxonomy-disaster like the infamous ‘four architectures’ of the ADM: please can we get it right this time? Please can we keep it simple instead?
Yes, […]

To understand shared-enterprise, look for the tattoos

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People seem to struggle so much with the word ‘enterprise’ in ‘enterprise-architecture’. So often they seem to think it’s about technology. Or money.
But if you want to understand ‘enterprise’, look for the story.
And if you want to see where and how people really commit themselves to an enterprise, look for the tattoos.
That’s commitment…
And […]

The New World of Enterprise ArchitectureThe Journey from IT Architecture to Enterprise Architecture Presentation

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While at the conference I received lots of great feedback on my presentation. The most popular request has been publishing my deck. Below is the deck I presented at the Open Group Conference Austin in July 2011. The New World…