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Bye, Bye My Clustered AMIs…A Cloud Tribute to Don McLean | Rational Survivability @Beaker’s rockin’ tribute to Don McLean, inspired by Amazon’s EC2 woes. [If you aren’t reading Beaker, you are missing out on tremendous cloud knowledge…

Must See Guide for Gartner BPM Summit

As one of the largest BPM conferences in the world, the Gartner BPM Summit offers objective advice and insights into some of the latest issues, disciplines and trends emerging in the BPM community.  With the Gartner BPM Summit coming up next week in Baltimore, we thought we’d take this opportunity to pull together a quick […]

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More on ‘Not-quite VPEC-T’

[Updated to incorporate changes suggested by Nigel Green in the first comment in the comments-section below.]
A great conversation last night with Nigel Green, originator of the VPEC-T frame to elicit requirements and other concerns in enterprise-architecture and business-change design.
As described in my post ‘Not quite VPEC-T‘ back in November, the ’service-flow content’ part of my […]

Launching The EA Game

I announced The EA Game in a recent Twitter status update:
Shall We Play A Game? Introducing The EA Game http://gotze.eu/projects/the-ea-game/ #entarch #systemthinking
I forgot to blog the link too: The EA Game project page/announcement. Still a good background read, but there’s more:
The #entarch […]

Why ‘engineering the enterprise’ doesn’t work

Whilst at the AE-Rio 2011 enterprise-architecture conference, I had the pleasure of sitting through yet another presentation by John Zachman. (He’s the only presenter I know who can get away with reading every word of every slide on a very old-fashioned overhead projector. )
Yet much though I like him as a person, and […]

Enterprise architecture as language

Each enterprise has its own distinct language. More to the point, the enterprise-architecture is a language.
I probably need to take a step or two back at this point…
For quite some while I’ve been using the metaphor of ‘hologram’ to describe how we collect and store and describe information about the enterprise. Once we’ve done the […]