Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Following a Twitter chat over the weekend with Alec Sharp, Chris Bird et al, I thought I’d put together this table to show how one company sees the 5W+H focus the main roles involved in designing business change. We had a fair debate about the focus…
Running late again – apologies… (Would you accept “out of my skull on jet-lag” as an excuse? ) The links and Tweets from last week, anyway: usual categories, of course, preceded by the usual ‘Read more’ link.
Enterprise-architecture, business-architecture, business-strategy and related businessy stuff:
getstoried: RT @BBrands: Your brand is far more that […]
book now Workshop: Managing Complexity Using Enterprise Architecture (April 13th, 2011)
#entarch Underlying conventional enterprise architecture theory and practice are some implicit assumptions that could be loosely characterized as modernist…
Working with a variety of clients on EA initiatives one begins to realize that not everyone is a fan of EA. Specifically, they are not a fan of the "a-word". Some organizations have abused this term with creating and assigning…
Working with a variety of clients on EA initiatives one begins to realize that not everyone is a fan of EA. Specifically, they are not a fan of the “a-word”. Some organizations have abused this term with creating and assigning the title to just about a…
As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit in relation to the architecture.
But there’s a catch. A big catch. People should not be […]
This one extends the models-for-enterprise-architecture theme from the previous post. Although for me this theme goes back a long way, the start-point here was a Tweet from Dutch EA consultant Martin van den Berg (@bergmart) that triggered off a veritable flurry of replies:
bergmart: I’m more and more convinced that it should be forbidden to show […]
One thing that I’ve come to appreciate is both the importance, and impermanence, of the Enterprise Architecture metamodel. If that last sentence didn’t piss you off, you weren’t listening. I’ve found two common groups of Enterprise Ar…
#entarch Some people think that what uniquely characterizes enterprise architects is that they are the ones who “get the big picture”.
If this is true, it is because EAs have differently wired brains to the rest of humanity, or because their positi…
This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my surname has changed to Jensen-Waud. I will use thi…
This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my surname has changed to Jensen-Waud. I will use thi…
This blog has been dead for a while, partially due to a major, positive change of circumstances in my private and professional life. First of all, I married my wife on September 25 in Sydney. Hence, my surname has changed to Jensen-Waud. I will use thi…