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The Next Phase of Agile Development

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Guest post by Alan Morrison It’s human nature for people to build sturdy structures to shield themselves from the unpredictability of the elements. But, if you are too sheltered for too long, you weaken your ability to continuously confront change. That’s the dilemma facing IT departments. Change is raining down on them, and they are having trouble continuously adapting. A term is gaining momentum in the IT community to describe an ideal state for IT […]

Gartner’s 2013 Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant

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Like every year, Gartner has released yet another great resource for Enterprise Architects with their EA Tools Magic Quadrant. This is a very useful tool especially if you are in the market for an Enterepise Architecture tool. Gartner dog a…

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The Open Group TweetJam on Digital-Disruption – by Tom Graves

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On 2 October 2013, the Open Group ran one of its occasional ‘TweetJam’ Twitter-discussions – also known as an #ogChat. This time it was on digital disruption – disruption to existing business-models, typically (but, as we will see, not only) by … Continue reading →

Engineer strategic planning to align your company. Don’t reverse-engineer another company’s strategic plan.

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My engineering background encourages me automate processes. My architect experience encourages me to find patterns and model relationships. My operations experience forces to me to continuously look for ways to institutionalize efficiencies. My business management experience reminds me that it’s all about organizing people and initiatives to achieve strategy through building environments for people to…

Glossary

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A collection of Enterprise Architecture terms and definitions from a variety of sources: EA3 Cube, Introduction to Enterprise Architecture, The Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEAF-II), ISO 42010:2011 and TOGAF 9. 00

SOA Knowledge Exchange 2013 – a beacon of light or the blind leading the blind?

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Some time ago, at a UCISA Enterprise Architecture event, I discussed whether we needed a workshop for Higher Education (HE) sector technical architects to get together and share knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Whilst enthusiastic, colleagues expressed concern at the time that possibly the sector was too immature in this area for any individuals […]

SOA Knowledge Exchange 2013 – a beacon of light or the blind leading the blind?

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Some time ago, at a UCISA Enterprise Architecture event, I discussed whether we needed a workshop for Higher Education (HE) sector technical architects to get together and share knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Whilst enthusiastic, colleagues expressed concern at the time that possibly the sector was too immature in this area for any individuals […]

Crossing The Strategy Chasm

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Strategy is hard to craft and even harder to implement. Executives naively believe because they said it everyone will follow. I wish it were that simple. The innovation diffusion curve, an interesting model used by marketing can help explain how strategy adoption moves through an organization. What is innovation diffusion? The original Innovation diffusion theory […]