Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
The Time magazine has selected Mark Zuckerberg as the 2010 Person of the Year. In its Person of the Year article Time magazine states, “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new sys…
A somewhat smaller collection of Tweets and links this time – mainly because people are heading off into their various holiday-seasons, I guess. Same categories as usual, though, preceded by the usual ‘Read more…’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy, innovation and similar business themes:
SAlhir: RT @GreatestQuotes “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should […]
I have not blogged much in the past 12-18 months, not only because of work and projects but also the availability of ‘instant gratification’ services such as Twitter, and to a degree, Facebook. I decided a few weeks ago to…
Just a quick shout-out to all of my readers, colleagues, and friends in the hope that the holiday season is treating your families and you very well! 🙂
I have not blogged much in the past 12-18 months, not only because of work and projects but also the availability of ‘instant gratification’ services such as Twitter, and to a degree, Facebook. I decided a few weeks ago to…
Just a quick shout-out to all of my readers, colleagues, and friends in the hope that the holiday season is treating your families and you very well! 🙂
One challenge with long-running news stories is that it is often difficult to keep track of the “current” bits. Even important news can seem like “old” news because the problem is taking so long to be resolved, or even addressed. Wh…
We boarded the plane, settled down in our seats, to await pushback from the gate – the usual ‘hurry up and wait’ of everyday air-travel. Seemed to take a bit longer than usual, though. Strange clonks and thumps from beneath my seat, down below in the cargo bay. We wait, and we wait.
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One of the fundamental questions of Enterprise Architecture is how to measure the value of the enterprise architecture program. Then again is Enterprise Architecture a program or a business function, I my opinion it can be both. I have investigated how Enterprise Architecture contribute to the enterprise with value but also how the value can […]
I am an Enterprise Architect. It is my job to look at things the way they are, and envision the things that should be. It is my role to describe specific actions that specific people can take to change things (systems, processes, corporate …
The Portfolio Viewpoint is a collection of well-defined capabilities and their relationships across a set of domains. The Portfolio Viewpoint supports executive level discussions and business strategy because it traces stakeholder (CEO, CIO, COO, CISO)…
The Portfolio Viewpoint is a collection of well-defined capabilities and their relationships across a set of domains. The Portfolio Viewpoint supports executive level discussions and business strategy because it traces stakeholder (CEO, CIO, COO, CISO) vision to decision grade information for IT investment.
But the Portfolio View usually doesn’t start out that way.
It frequently begins life as an Inventory Viewpoint that has little value outside of Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture teams. Some attributes of the Inventory Viewpoint are as follows:
As you can see the level of order is much higher and therefore of greater value in the Portfolio Viewpoint and while there are probably other attributes one can add to the mix the table above identifies some important ones.
The danger with the Inventory Viewpoint is that if it is maintained in the same condition long term then it becomes an anti-pattern. Collecting capabilities without understanding the depth of their connections and the wealth of their meaning will end up as shelf-ware in a repository, however sophisticated that repository may feel.
So resist the temptation to hoard capabilities. Don’t be afraid to talk to the business. And, above all, pay attention to what your stakeholders and their deputies tell you, particularly the office of the CEO, CIO, COO, and CISO.