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“We are different! But are we really different?”

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“Many stakeholders consider their organization as unique.” Depending on the level of abstraction you take as viewpoint, you can argue this statement is either right or wrong. It is interesting from an enterprise architecture perspective to understand why stakeholders stress this uniqueness and what are the benefits of understanding where the organization really is different…

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Architecture is theory

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Those who denigrate architecture as ‘only theory’ are seriously missing the point, because the role of architecture is theory – theory to guide the practice of design. Without theory to guide practice, all that we’d have is design that’s built on untested …

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10 Common Issues for Architects In Requirements Management

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I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs have to meet the needs of the stakeholders and clearly stake how they do it. […]

Partner perspective

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Partner perspective The BiZZdesign partner network extends the range and depth of industry expertise available to our customers. In this blog post, our UK partner, Edifit, explains how they have applied their experience as architecture practitioners to extend the document production capabilities of Enterprise Studio. Automating document generation from your architecture model Eddie Walker Good…

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Systems user rights in architecture

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Last week I was asked for a standard definition of what administrative users are in our company. I wanted to talk a bit about user rights because admin or not admin as a way of thinking is dangerous. I wanted to share my thoughts on it, and an approach for defining user rights in architecture. […]

Rethinking RACI

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Probably everyone knows the RACI responsibility-matrix – Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed. But what does it mean, in practice? For some years now I’ve been using a simple organisation-relative way to describe the organisation’s relationships with the broader shared-enterprise: organisation: the organisation itself, …

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Taking compliance to the next level

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Internal regulations governance has become more and more critical both because of exogenous pressures (e.g. an ever-changing legislative environment, increased scrutiny from regulatory institutions) as well as endogenous ones (e.g. frequent organizational changes and corporate acquisitions). A company’s own regulatory framework consists of various sorts of documents. Some have merely an informative purpose, others regulate…

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