New year, new certification

Until recently, virtually all IT certifications have been based on an individual’s recollection of a body of knowledge and their ability to pass a computer-based test. Perhaps a better method of evaluating competence to carry out a specific role is to examine the skills and experience that an individual has demonstrated in his/her work. Continue reading

Aggregated EA wisdom

I have launched a new service called EA Blogs, which is a thematic aggregator of enterprise architecture blog feeds. A ‘planet‘, or as Dave Winer would call it, a river. Or whatever. The EA Blogs engine fetches new blog entries from around 20 enterprise architects within an hour after they are […]

Executives who outsource too much

#entarch @Cybersal found a useful article in MIT Sloan Management Review What Happens When You Outsource Too Much? by Francesco Zirpoli and Markus C. Becker (December 2010).

In my view, the title of the article doesn’t do justice to the content. There…

Establishing an Enterprise Architecture function

When establishing (or indeed re-establishing) a brand new Enterprise Architecture function within an organisation there are perhaps two main approaches: A big bang approach A gradual iterative incremental approach I favour the big bang approach. This is for several reasons: 1) a big bang send a clear and confident message to everyone in the organisation that […]

A week in Tweets: 26 December 2010 – 01 January 2011

Managing to keep up to date at present, so here’s the list of Tweets and links for the week (and year) just past. Usual categories, of course.

Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business strategy and suchlike:

tetradian: [post] Where is the information when we need it? http://bit.ly/hPBME3 #entarch #itarch #orgarch #systems
jdevoo: MIT SMR Analytics: New Path to Value http://bit.ly/g0ExUs – […]

A kind of change-of-year review

Yes, it’s that time of year again, when it’s worthwhile reflecting on the old adage that we overestimate what we can do in a week, or a month, but underestimate what we can do in a whole year.
Right now I’m in one of those dreaded between-project spaces where nothing much seems to be happening. On […]

Week of Tweets – 27 Dec. 2010 – 2 Jan. 2011

Every week I read / react to lot of tweets / posts dealing with a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content to be found on the web that can be of interest to many of my kinds. My only regrets is that I hardly keep memories of these interesting thoughts / information. This blog […]

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section Six – Strengths and weaknesses

The architects who are first in the field and awaits the coming of the problem, will be fresh for the task; the architects who are second in the field and has to react to the problem will be worn out by the task. Therefore the clever architect imposes his will on the problem, but does […]

Time Part 2 – Januray 1, 2011

This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.

In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and…

Time Part 2 – Januray 1, 2011

This post follows on from the introduction to thinking about time posted here.In the previous post, I introduced a few of the nuanaces of time. It isn’t about the obvious things like format, timezone, precision, calendar, etc. Those are important and c…

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