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More than 10 billion Euros will be spent on 16 new hospital construction projects in Denmark. One of the larger projects, dubbed a “super-hospital,” is in Odense, where the budget is 1.3 billion Euros. The New Odense University Hospital (…
Many firms in the oil sector are struggling due to the steep drop in oil prices. Across the sector there has been a reduction in investment, and in many cases downsizing. Planning for the future in these times can be tough, and changes need to be made in order to survive. However, some firms are…
We are happy to announce that after a brief hiatus, we will be presenting again at the Open Group Conference, this year in San Francisco, January 25-27. Ben Sommer and I will be presenting in the Architecture Methods and Techniques track. The theme of this conference is “How Enterprise Architecture is empowering companies to build […]
One of my routines around New Year is to look back at the books brought to the market in the last year that caught my attention. In this blog post, I will share my thoughts about the ten most notable books of the year. Notable 2015 additions to the enterprise architect’s bookshelf: Business Architecture Management:…
I’m looking forward to speaking about trends in enterprise architecture at the EA2015 conference on 4 November in Copenhagen. Having spoken at this annual conference over the past several years, it is my annual “state-of-the-union” address to the Danish EA community. This year, I will talk about several trends and issues. The outline of the lecture looks like this: The […]
More and more QualiWare users consider a consensus-driven management philosophy and enterprise collaboration to be a key driver for business agility and innovation. This has always been essential for QualiWare when we design our products and services. For several years, we have been surprised and disappointed that Gartner sticks to a rather traditional view on EA […]
Enterprise Architecture is facing several challenges as a discipline and a practice. In this blog post, John Gøtze outlines four central challenges, and discusses what should be done. He suggests that enterprise architecture management must focus on enterprise collaboration. The Challenges The discipline Enterprise Architecture (EA) is at a crossroads, facing four challenges: The first […]
Everyone in the agile community will understand this (I expect ;-)). If we talk about “managing” we agilists understand that the team “manages” itself. That difference with “traditional” projects, managed by a project leader or -manager, is constantly emphasised by scrum pundits. This article is not for that in-crowd but for people attempting to understand […]
David Horsey Copyright 2013 Tribune Media Services The invention of the modern computer can be seen as a fundamental paradigm shift. But contrary to what the technology geeks want to make us believe, it is not about technology, digital content, the internet, or electronic devices. Since it can (and in a few decades, will) be seen […]
A Solution Architect needs to have a clear understanding of a client’s data architecture. Most – if not all – of the projects to which I’ve been assigned have had the movement of data as a key part of the solution. When it comes to data, operating from a “project-only silo” mindset is a recipe […]
This is a typical artefact from an architect: It consists of the typical modelling constructs found in those work products from architects: squares, blocks, rectangular things stacked on each other. For many people, even architects I am afraid, architecture is more or less synonymous with stacking blocks in layers. The work products in TOGAF are […]
In the Netherlands we have this saying when we want to describe how we “translate” complex documents in esoteric language for a larger audience: “Jip en Janneke taal” (the language of Jip and Janneke). Jip and Janneke are the names of the two main protagonists in a series of children’s novels by a great Dutch writer, Annie […]