Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Times are tough: many businesses are struggling to stay afloat in the wild economic currents. Many organizations attempt to find a blue ocean of uncontested space, but lets face it: most of us are stuck in a red ocean with a lot of competition, growin…
How many layers are there in an enterprise-architecture? If we read any of the standard texts, you’ll see there are several popular answers. For example, Archimate says there are three: Business, Application and Technology. TOGAF says there are four: Business, Data,…
Who defines the profession and disciplines for ‘the architecture of the enterprise’? Who is responsible for it, how, and why? The focus in this part of the series is on a comment by Len Fehskens, on an earlier post about EA and certification. As with the previous post, building on…
When Darwin wrote his opus magnum On the Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859) he most likely did not have businesses and other enterprises in mind. Yet, the adage survival of the fittest definitely applies to many modern day enterprises. Opportunities and…
Over the last two decades, Lean management has proved to be very powerful in improving an organizations business process performance. During the same time frame, Enterprise Architecture came up as a discipline for controlling the complexity of organiz…
What skills do we need for enterprise-architecture – for a literal ‘architecture of the enterprise’? And why? And how do we certify those skills? Or should we even try to certify those skills? If so, why? If not, why not? The…
Why do I worry about enterprise-architecture? And who the heck am I to worry about it? What kind of right have I got to criticise anything that anyone does in this space? Okay, let’s forget the idea of ‘rights’ for…
What’s wrong with enterprise-architecture? For that matter, what’s right with it? How can we do more of what’s right and less of what’s wrong? And what is the point of EA, anyway? Following on from those posts on certification and EA,…
In the previous recordings of this series we have presented our view on enterprise architecture (EA), TOGAF and ArchiMate. We see EA as a conceptual tool that adds business value with a model-based approach for getting to grips with the complexities o…
What is the profession of enterprise-architecture? And what should we do about certification, to define and protect that profession? Yeah, it’s much the same questions as before – but perhaps becoming a bit more urgent as the thrust from Open Group…
Architecture levels of abstraction and detail: How to make those work for youOne of the most popular topics to debate amongst architects is: what is the proper level of abstraction needed to be applied when creating architectures. Although always leng…
It was the smell that caught my attention first, I guess – the smell of chemicals as I walked through through the front door of their supposedly upmarket offices. But it’s something I’ve come to recognise, to watch for, as…