Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Got a link they other day from an EA colleague on Martha Heller’s recent post Making EA Matter. As an EA I liked the quote about the EA being the smarted person in the room and the least arrogant. We could psycho-analyze our staff to ensure they are t…
In my latest blog post, I outlined a five-scale classification of system views and discussed tentatively how those system views would pertain to Enterprise Architecture. In the following, I will elaborate on the systemic-structural underpinnings of eac…
This morning, Dave, Bill and I exchanged our top 3 cloud computing stories for April. We uncovered a new industry disorder, public-cloud-phobia. Listen here.
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A new technical report and a Quick Reference Guide exploring the synergies and identifying integration points between Frameworx and TOGAF® has been published by The Open Group and TM Forum. Continue reading →
#entarch @MartinHowitt writes “I’m fed up of being told that our IT systems suck. Want better ones? Spend some blinking money. That is all.”
@dougnewdick replies “To get better IT you need to spend money, but it doesn’t follow that if you spend money …
An architecture for a solution requires understanding the problem at hand well enough that solving it can be described in terms that everyone understands. The architect speaks in terms of capabilities, not products.
Oil companies [are] essentially spending twice as much to undertake the same amount of work as in 2000¹. It’s evident that oil and gas companies are under an incredible amount of pressure. Pressure to meet increasing demands for energy, pressure to provide consistency in operations amid (or in spite of) price fluctuations, pressure to find […]
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Much has been said about the general way that EA frameworks divides the world into different domains. Mostly “Architects” rant about the fact that in TOGAF there is the single domain “Business” that is said to “take care of everything not IT” and such. Let’s take a look at how the News profession classify the […]
Typically the EA books I review are a summary of the author’s heuristic experiences; they provide viewpoints, models and tools for managing the challenges of EA. Fewer authors opt for an holistic approach; perhaps these books are best described as being about “approaches to EA” rather than methodological detail. Zoom Effect is unique in the […]
When Cloud reaches its fully adopted level, it will influence application architectures by driving them to be more componentized and service-oriented to support agility, commoditization and choice. Continue reading →
Still in catch-up, as seems to occur all too often – apologies. Another week’s-worth of Tweets and links, anyway. Usual categories, of course, after the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and suchlike:
jdevoo: RT @jpertusa: Fascinating! TED: Repository of open source hardware for development http://bit.ly/fywYGn #sustainability #entarch
JohnPolgreen: RT @pbmobi: real architecture=something where there was an […]
What would it take for your business to view IT as a valuable, essential partner instead of an annoying cost-center that they’re forced to deal with? Wouldn’t that be better for you and better for them?