Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As we begin 2016, I want to extend my warmest greetings to everyone in The Open Group community! I hope each of you had a wonderful holiday filled with family and friends. 2016 promises to be an exciting year for … Continue reading →
Since we don’t know what we don’t know about EA, the first step would be to get to know what we don’t know. Only then we can the right questions.
Eight powerful secrets for retaining delighted clients; or what they don’t teach you in business school.
This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 376, is something new. Tom hosts a discussion of what to expect re: technology in 2016 with the full cast of his regulars: Jeremy Berriault (The QA Corner), Steve Tendon (The TameFlow Approach), Kim Pries (The Software Sensei), and me (Form Follows […]
Enterprise-architecture – what is it? There are so many arguments about this – especially on LinkedIn – that it’s easiest to sidestep the question, and say that enterprise-architecture is the architecture of the enterprise. Kinda straightforward, when we look at…
Instead of creating yet more architecture frameworks, EA practitioners need to collaborate more to describe the EA meta-framework – the underlying foundation that is common to every EA framework and approach. Roger Evernden
Have you ever tried to implement TQM or similar in your family or into your own social environment? Properly not and if then you quickly know that it fails very fast. Usually the reason is that different members have a different definition on the importance of quality and also lack motivation. A typical example is … Continue reading Impossibility of TQM →
Don’t you just love buzzwords and silver bullets? My first post on InfoWorld was about the cloud as a silver bullet. And Scott Adams from Dilbert catches painful realities as well: see this strip. Now, cloud is a real phenomenon (even if it … Continue reading →
Given the EA state today, an EA architect should first create and employ own methodology to model the integrated blueprint of the enterprise and guide the transformation.
Yeah, there’ve been complaints. – “Write simpler! “, says one. – “You write so looong!”, says another. – “I have a problem with your blog-posts”, says yet another. “I know I’ll be required to think hard if I read them…
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few … Continue reading →
While pulling down the lights and placing the holiday decorations back in their boxes your child comes to you and asks you what to do, how to succeed where others have not and what is the difference between success and everything else. What? So, how to respond? 