Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Of late, the online media is flooded with plenty of articles/opinions on the future of Enterprise IT and CIO roles in next decades. Why do we see such futuristic, inspirational, transformational viewpoints doing the rounds these days? I strongly believ…
With ever increasing popularity and acceptance of tablets, ebook readers etc. it is little surprise that the traditional form of paper books and it’s ecosystem is coming under immense pressure to survive and remain profitable. How long will the paper b…
From time to time, I hear interesting anecdotes from colleagues or friends outside Microsoft, telling me a story about what it’s like to work at Microsoft. Often these stories are placed into a comparative context, as in: our culture is dif…
@Cybersal complains about Amazon. “Yet again Amazon ships a tiny book with an unreliable courier that my postman could have shoved through my letterbox.” and explains “Post office 10 min walk. Courier depot 30 min drive. Courier not a good option fo…
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a representation of the business in terms of its components and component relationships in order to facilitate business change. It mediates our knowledge and understanding of the underlying organizational system an…
We’ve all been watching the events in Japan recently and felt the shock of seeing the devastation of the earthquake and resulting tsunami. As of this writing there are still untold victims needing to be rescued. But there is one element of the di…
Tweets and links from the second (and final) day of the Troux users (enterprise-architecture) conference in Austin, Texas, on 23-24 March 2011 – once again courtesy of Brenda Michelson, Todd Biske, Mike Walker, Aleks Buterman and others in a very active Tweet-active band of enterprise-architecture folks.
As on the previous post, I’ve edited slightly to remove most of the #Troux2011 and […]
Courtesy of a very active band of Tweeters – including Brenda Michelson, Todd Biske, Mike Walker and Aleks Buterman, we have a fairly comprehensive description of what’s been going on at the Troux users (enterprise-architecture) conference in Austin, Texas, on 23-24 March 2011.
I’ve edited slightly to remove most of the #Troux2011 and #entarch hash-tags; I’ve […]
Panel discussion. Panelists: Eric Christian, Director of Global Architecture Security at Cummins Sandy McCoy, Executive Director, Business Architecture, Kaiser Permanente Michael Balay, AVP, Technology & Operations, Enterprise Architecture, MetLife Moderator: George Paras Q: Inspiring an EA team is a challenging activity. If you had one bit of advice to an aspiring EA leader, what would […]
Speaker: Michael Pemberton, Enterprise Architect and USAA USAA has had an enterprise architecture practice on the technology side and is now establishing a business architecture practice. First point: Why did USAA take the journey? They realized that without a business-driven, integrated enterprise architecture, it would be like driving without a map. Their challenge was that […]
Building the Business Case For EA Moderated by Chuck Keffer, Troux; Guest speakers: J-P Renaud, Director of Global Network Services and Jennifer Pfaff, Director of Information Technology PMO and Management Support Services at…
Architecture is about holistically describing the system of people, process and technology. It can be abstract and conceptual, or it can be concrete and detailed. But it is never merely a specific product set from a specific vendor.