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It’s still EA, just not as you know it. Of all the things you can voluntarily choose to do in life – there are three things that you would never do without serious justification. One […]
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To quote Terry Pratchett’s character Granny Weatherwax, “I ATEN’T DEAD”. Not yet, anyway. But the blunt fact is that I was born quite a long time ago. A time when there were still a fair few horse-drawn vehicles in our village,…
This year marks thirty years since the publishing of Zachman’s seminal paper. And since then there’s been a torrent of publications on architecture. What’s always puzzled me was that despite all that brain power and all that paper, and believe me I’ve got bookcases and filing cabinets full of it, I’ve never come across a […]
In the previous post ‘Decisions, decisions…‘, I promised to list the tools for sensemaking, strategy, modelling, metagovernance and the like, for use in enterprise-architectures and similar fields, that I’ve been working on over this past decade or so. So here…
We’ve explored the current status for enterprise-architecture; we’ve explored the changes to the discipline over the past few decades. Time now, perhaps, to assess the future – or futures, rather – of its likely onward development and direction. This report…
A couple weeks back I wrote a post about what I see as the current status for enterprise-architecture – where the discipline is right now, how it’s different in different parts of the world, and how some of the big…
One of the huge challenges of trying to make things simple in a complex context is that often it can make at first make things seem more complicated. For a while, anyway, until things settle down a bit, and the…
Kind of a personal landmark, I guess: today I reach so-called ‘retirement-age’, where I’m supposedly meant to kick back, relax and walk away from all of the stresses of a lifetime of work. Hmm… no chance of that happening, is…
For me, the past couple of months or so has been somewhat of a whirl: keynotes and several other presentations at five conferences, a blur of small consultancy-gigs, maybe a dozen workshops, and a whole lot more, across six countries…
From the Editor: Graham Berrisford from Avancier Ltd has provided…
First it is fair to give a definition. Sycophancy is flattery that is very obedient, or an indication of deference to another, to an excessive or servile degree. I recently read articles on establishing architects in all areas of engineering. During the period of 1833 -1854 one of these attempts is well document in the … Continue reading Sycophancy as the architect’s downfall →
I’ve just published a new on-line course called: Enterprise Architecture: Why we need it – an introduction. This is now available on Udemy. Because the course is brand new I’m offering a special promotional price for the course. It is available for only £29 instead of the usual price of £45. There are only 50 discounts available…