Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As I discussed in my previous blog and earlier, the capability concept is a great help in defining a good business architecture. It is used ever more widely and rightly so. As I mentioned in that blog, the concept itself is rooted in the defense domain, and from there it permeated various other domains. To…
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I Wanted to share how I approach motivation modelling, as there are many approaches, and I often see important things missing in this area. .
At work we use Bizzdesign’s Enterprise Studio (BES). I wanted to talk a little about getting the most out of an EA tool like this, if you want to get to a more advanced level of architecture model maturity. Yes its true, I like Enterprise Studio, but not because of any affiliation with the company; […]
Following my previous blog on Working With Projects & Dependencies I wanted to say a little on working with deliverable’s and avoiding some pitfalls.
This blog runs through some basic dependency mapping that we are doing within my team, and the approach I sometimes take to manage project deliverable’s in a large scale project environment. There are many different approaches that can be taken to do this, but i will show how i am doing things now. Road Map […]
For business-continuity after disruption or failure, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. For business-process redesign, what’s the first thing we’ll need? Answer: an alternative way to do things. In both cases, we’ll need…
Yeah, it’s been a while since I wrote anything new here… – kind of overdue for Normal Service Will Be Resumed and all that…? But yes, I am still here, still working, still pushing onward. And gratified to see that, yes,…
In the two previous installments, we discussed planning and roadmapping in the context of enterprise architecture, and how you can use the concepts of the ArchiMate language to model your roadmaps. We showed how you can model the evolution of your ente…
Carrying on from the previous post, with a bit of an explanation about why I’m becoming so much of ‘a grumpy old guy’… Here’s the blunt fact: I’m not a good thinker. I know that. Too many gaps in my knowledge,…
What tools and toolsets do we need, to support our work in the architecture of the enterprise as a whole? The short and more cynical answer is “Not what we have right now”. To be blunt, maybe none of the…
The Open Group’s Healthcare Forum recently published (free, but registration required) their version 0.1 ‘snapshot’ for HERA, their proposed ‘Healthcare Enterprise Reference Architecture’. What follows is a quick(ish) review, together with some practical recommendations. I’ll try to be nice –…
With the increase in regulations governing the privacy of personal…