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What does Business and IT alignment mean? #iCMG Architecture World – Linkedin Group discussion http://ow.ly/39LVW Above, is a link to a very long Linkedin discussion about: Rajiv What does Business and IT alignment mean? The objective of this discussion is 1) Define what does IT alignment with business means? 2) Define process needed to […]
A key to any Enterprise Architecture program is solution architecture. Solution architecture is where work gets done. If your EA team is disconnected from the solution architecture effort, you’ll probably hear the term “ivory tower” a lot. Unfortunately, it’s far more common than you may think. Looking the typical project, the first question is where […]
“There is nothing more horrible than to walk to fault line between new and old, seeing what the future holds, screaming about it in your art and writing, and finding only mute incomprehension or dismissal in your audience.” – Joshua Cooper Ramos, T…
“There is nothing more horrible than to walk to fault line between new and old, seeing what the future holds, screaming about it in your art and writing, and finding only mute incomprehension or dismissal in your audience.” – Joshua Cooper Ramos, T…
I am pleased to announce to my readers that the Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) has released the Abstract for the first edition of the CAEAP Professional Practice Guide (PPG). I have been a…
I am pleased to announce to my readers that the Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) has released the Abstract for the first edition of the CAEAP Professional Practice Guide (PPG). I have been a…
A challenge for virtually any position with “Enterprise” in the title, but especially so with Enterprise Architecture, is to continually show that they are adding value to the organization. Why? Because typically enterprise architects are not directly associated with delivery. In most IT organizations, things get delivered through projects, and enterprise architects don’t typically play […]
The Wikipedia community describes Conway’s Law like this; I paraphrase it like this: if the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins. The organizational divides are going to drive the true seams in the system.
The architecture of the system gets cemented in the […]