Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
My career started in the true meaning of the word – I found myself careering like a go-cart out of control downhill. It is said that “necessity is the mother of invention”; this applied to my mindset as a teenager faced with the reality that as soon as…
My career started in the true meaning of the word – I found myself careering like a go-cart out of control downhill. It is said that “necessity is the mother of invention”; this applied to my mindset as a teenager faced with the reality that as soon as…
I have long considered the discipline of “architecture” as a problem solving technique that brings together art, philosophy, engineering, physics, culture, technology, etc. Producing a high quality architecture is to provide a platfor…
I have long considered the discipline of “architecture” as a problem solving technique that brings together art, philosophy, engineering, physics, culture, technology, etc. Producing a high quality architecture is to provide a platfor…
In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture. Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided fou…
I have long considered the discipline of “architecture” as a problem solving technique that brings together art, philosophy, engineering, physics, culture, technology, etc. Producing a high quality architecture is to provide a platform for the enterprise to balance form, function, and elegance. Or using today’s parlance: structure, behaviors, and desire. I know the term “desire”…
In this session at the Open Group Conference, Dr. Brian Cameron walked us through Penn State Enterprise Architecture Initiative at the College of ISTEA IST. I have blogged about this program before (Enterprise Architecture Goes To College, EA Becoming Academically…
I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate. The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end…
Along side the release of the ArchiMate 2.0 specification, a new certification for the ArchiMate has been released this week. ArchiMate, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by different…
I often don’t like when EA discussions take the route into meta concepts. Enterprise architects – as the abstract thinkers they often are – have a tendency to discuss meta concepts. “What does the meta model of that method look like?”, “What do you mean when you say capability?”, “How do you define enterprise architecture?”. […]
A set of Tweets from the third and final main day (01 Feb 2012) of the Open Group conference in San Francisco, collated via the#ogSFO hashtag. (Tweets from Day 1 are here; from Day 2 are here.) Once again, many thanks indeed to all those who Tweeted, to help us all get a better picture of the current […]
In keeping with the tradition of opening blog posts of the year with reports from Davos, listing highlights from Davos 2012… Digital Norms
The digital age brings transparency but also increasing threats to confidentiality.
Greater and…