Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Often we, the Enterprise Architects make life difficult for ourselves (legacy of complex system thinking?) Example? We label one of the most beautiful constructs in Enterprise Architecture with a dry, “medical sounding” term Taxonomy. This is probably …
Wow, what a great event. It’s been a month since the first the event and we are still getting a great deal of feedback on the value of the event. Thank you to all of you that attended. With close…
Is enterprise-architecture more akin to alchemy than applied-science? And if so – and to what extent as so – what would this imply to how we study, discuss, teach, learn and apply enterprise-architectures in real-world practice? Kinda suggests perhaps, that…
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1st Texas Association of Enterprise Architects Summit! Designed by Enterprise Architects, for Enterprise Architects this summit provides an opportunity to discover the latest approaches and innovative ideas in Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture. This full day event is different…
We already have too many predefined frameworks for enterprise architecture, and that a better approach is to create the frameworks you need as and when you need them, starting from a small set of fundamental factors that are critical for effective EA. So why is this Cutter Advisor about yet another EA framework, and especially…
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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,…
Following the recent The Open Group’s “Business Transformation in Finance, Government & Healthcare” conference in London, I was pleased to see this comment about Lean Enterprise Architecture: “We were told that Standard Frameworks are too complex and multidimensional – people were interested in how we use them to provide simple working guidelines to the architecture…
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…