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Enterprise Architecture, Open Standards, and Aircraft Certification

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Aircraft safely is of interest to everyone around the world. To address aircraft safety there are certification processes in place where two organizations with the greatest involvement are the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency) in the US, and the EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) in Europe.

Certification is how the FAA manages risk through safety assurance. It provides the FAA confidence that a proposed product or operation will meet FAA safety expectations to protect the public. Certification affirms that FAA requirements have been met.

10 Common Issues for Architects In Requirements Management

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I wanted to share some common issues I see when managing requirements in large projects. 1. The blur between the Architect and Project Manager Architects build architecture solutions, and if you read standards like ISO42010 its quite clear that designs have to meet the needs of the stakeholders and clearly stake how they do it. […]

Near Miss

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A serious aviation incident in the news today. A plane took off from Birmingham last year with insufficient fuel, because the weight of the passengers was incorrectly estimated. This is being described as an IT error.As Cathy O’Neil’s maxim reminds us,…

Linked Data uptake

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Linked Data is a universal approach for naming, shaping, and giving meaning to data, using open standards. It was meant to be the second big information revolution after the world wide web. It was supposed to complement the web of documents with the web of data so that humans and machines can use the Internet […]