Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
We use a system context diagram in the early stages of our Investigative Architecture™ process. It provides a high level functional view of a system and, while it is very powerful for the early stages of functional design, it also ensures you have identified any functional needs that impact the non-functional, or architectural, aspects of […]
Continuing on with our demystification series, I will talk about the comments I hear form people with regards to the TOGAF certification itself and the process. When I hear comments about this topic they usually gravitate to one end of…
I have gotten a surprising (or maybe not so surprising) discussion on the TOGAF Demystification Series. In one of the posts entitled, "TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete And Overly Complex" there were many comments made about this one in…
Another week, another conference? Yes, I know it does sometimes seem a bit like that, but that’s part of what I do – getting the word out about enterprise-architecture, particularly at the larger whole-enterprise scope. This time it was in…
Once upon a time, people thought of an information model as defining the structure of the stuff you want to remember. Nowadays, this definition is too restrictive: it might possibly be adequate for a system/database designer, but is not adequat…
I’ve only heard this one a few times but since this myth was recently referenced in one of the comments of the post, "TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Sucks, Incomplete and Overly Complex" I thought it would be good to elevate…
A few weeks back I sat in on a TOGAF 9.1 training course that I had my team ramp up on. This training was two fold, up-level the knowledge of enterprise architecture team on EA methods and it also served…
Manuel Di Toma has created a great resource for Enterprise Architects looking for TOGAF 9 certification. He built a set of TOGAF 9 simulation tests to help prepare you for the big test. Manuel ensures that all the resources in…
Is a market an organisation, or an enterprise? Seems to me the only valid short-answer is ‘Yes’… Can we design a market? We’d probably say ‘Yes’ there too, though perhaps with a fair few ’It depends…‘ riders attached to that answer. And…
Just how applicable are ‘best practices’? How certain can we be that they’ll be ‘best’ for each seemingly-equivalent context? I’ve been brewing on this for quite a while, when via serendipity up comes this retweet by software-architect Simon Brown: RT…
For those that are like me, I use my smartphone or tablet throughout the day. Often times it is much easier to go to those devices than the traditional laptop. Given that I am always on the hunt for mobile…
What is the role of principles in enterprise-architecture? What is a principle? For that matter, when is a principle not a principle? These were questions that came up in response to a post by Simplicable: ‘101 Principles of Enterprise-Architecture‘. Or…