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To make sure that your EA program serves the business, design it to quickly answer the toughest questions facing your senior business and IT executives. Give them answers in exactly the form they find most useful. And then market your su…
To make sure that your EA program serves the business, design it to quickly answer the toughest questions facing your senior business and IT executives. Give them answers in exactly the form they find most useful. And then market your su…
This blog post deals with first day at the summer camp for Enterprise Architecture in Week 22 that was held in Denmark at the IT University of Copenhagen. The participants were mostly students. The tagline for this event is “Scandinavian … Continue reading →
In the May 15th issue of CIO magazine, there is a rather interesting article, especially for Enterprise Architecture practitioners. The article, written by Stephanie Overby (a freelance writer), is titled “RIP I.T. Value” and opens with the f…
Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real maturity. Governance issues in particular have allowed f…
Don’t you believe it! For many larger organizations SOA is only now becoming central to key business strategies. Whilst SOA has been around for almost a decade, few companies have achieved real maturity. Governance issues in particular have allowed f…
Today I was reading an op-ed piece in MIS titled “Maintain or Modernise“. This is a one-pager that summarises some received wisdom on the need for organisations to effectively manage the pressure to adopt new technologies and mitigate the risks they entail. Here is the passage that sets up the thesis of the article…. Businesses […]
I was impressed with Cathay Pacific Airways have created a set of metrics for measuring Enterprise Debt and was struck by the fact they’d omitted the word ‘technical’ from the description. I think the debt metaphor is very powerful for explaining why businesses should pay attention to architecture but I do feel we should not only consider the technical debt, we should also understand the ‘debt’ created by ill-considered processes and hard-to-grasp strategies (all part of EA IMO). Some questions I’m pondering:
What would a 360 degree set of metrics for Enterprise Debt look like? Would VPEC-T analysis help? How can we create a board level visualisation of ED and make a a key tool for a ‘Managing Complexity’ agenda and guide decision-making when designing business change?
All thoughts for my long flight home at the end of the week.
Here’s a link to a piece from my friend Charles Edwards on Enterprise Technical Debt that added to my thoughts:
http://www.agileea.com/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110:what-is-enterprise-technical-debt&catid=51:enterprise-architecture-&Itemid=54
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And it’s catch-up time again… not too delayed this time, though. A rather larger collection of Tweets and links this week – not sure why. Usual categories, usual comments or tags in italics, usual ‘Read more…’ link. As usual.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and the usual stuff that goes around business big-picture:
bartleeten: Agile Architecture […]