Enterprise Architecture and the Business of IT

I’ve been following Tom Graves and his Tetradian blog for quite a while. His view of Enterprise Architecture (EA), namely that it is about the architecture of the enterprise and not just the enterprise’s IT systems, is one I find compelling. With some encouragement on Tom’s part, I’ve begun touching on the topic of EA, […]

At Integrated-EA 2016

Always enlivening and enlightening, and working with what is perhaps still the closest we’ll see so far to a real ‘the architecture of the enterprise’, the Defence-oriented Integrated-EA conference in London in early March is one of the regular highlights of my

FUTON Architecture

The FUTON I am after here is not the Japanese mattress, but the ‘Full text on net’ bias. FUTON is the tendency of academics to base their research solely on information free of charge on the internet. Often the opposite is called ‘toll access publications’. Now in architecture there is similar trend to be seen. … Continue reading FUTON Architecture

API Design Challenges: Competing Demands

Working inside an enterprise is constantly a challenge to balance competing demands and chart the best course forward.  Unfortunately, typical corporate IT culture is one where everything is ruled by project delivery metrics: on time and on budget.  Based on behaviors I’ve observed, this results in two common things: Efforts to minimize the teams involved. […]

Designing the Business of IT … but will it add value to my business?

As awareness and interest in the Open Group’s new IT4IT Reference Architecture continues to gather pace in online communities, blogs and industry events, one over-arching question remains; what is the business value of this new […]

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