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ArchiMate Modeling in Practice – Gap Analysis

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With the pressure on, the team has the feeling that they are “working around the clock”. Surely, the target model keeps growing fast, also because the reference models provide a good starting point. Still, the team has clearly stated that they had hoped to have more concrete results. This is probably due to the fact that a lot of people in the organization want to get started in realizing the architecture, rather than continually fleshing it out in more detail. Here, Brenda realizes she must strike a balance between getting a complete picture of the target architecture in ArchiMate® and giving her team what they want and need.

FEAC Annual EA Awards

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The FEAC Annual Enterprise Architecture Awards

 

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in partnership with:

1105 media

 

Since 2002, The FEAC Institute has partnered with 1105Media to bring the EA community the annual Enterprise Architecture event and awards ceremony in Washington DC: The GovEA Conference.

The GoveEA Conference is the premier educational forum for enterprise architects and project managers to convene and learn from expert practitioners in EA on the latest methods, frameworks and policies impacting the EA community. For example, the 2013 event  focused on how EA is making the mission possible today; topics included cutting-edge EA methodologies to increase efficiencies, fostering innovation, using EA as a medium for restructuring and more.

Every year includes pre-conference workshops, conference sessions in different information-packed tracks. Keynot presentations by EA leaders, a technology roundtable luncheon, a networking reception, digital downloads, availabel CEUs and the annual EA awards ceremony.

Each year, the FEAC Institute hosts the Annual Excellence in Enterprise Architecture Awards, recognizing the impacts of Enterprise Architecture best practices on achieving efficiencies, greater effectiveness, transparency, increased collaboration or innovation in solutions to government mission outcomes. Nominations are encouraged from all types of enterprises in industry and all levels of government, including U.S. federal, state, and local government organizations, education, as well as successful industry, government and education programs outside the United States.

Seven awards are given each year:

  1. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Government Project, Civilian
  2. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Government Project, Defense
  3. Leadership in Government Transformation using EA – Government Project, Civilian
  4. Leadership in Government Transformation using EA – Government Project, Defense
  5. Leadership in Enterprise Architecture Driven Results – Industry
  6. Leadership in Enterprise Transformation using EA – Industry
  7. EA Hall of Fame – Individual Leadership in EA Practice, Promotion and Professionalization (open to industry, as well as current and former Government employees)

 

 

Enterprise Architecture Inquiry

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I’ve had this outline of a book project laying dormant on Google drive for a couple of years. The working title was “The Art of Documenting Enterprise Architecture”. I’m not to fond of that title since I wasn’t aiming to document an architecture, rather capture and think through questions one would need answered to get […]

Enterprise Architecture Inquiry

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I’ve had this outline of a book project laying dormant on Google drive for a couple of years. The working title was “The Art of Documenting Enterprise Architecture”. I’m not to fond of that title since I wasn’t aiming to document an architecture, rather capture and think through questions one would need answered to get […]

A Presentation on ICT for Lawyers

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This post is a summary of a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers on ICT fundamentals. It represents my own opinion, and not that of my employers or anyone else! I apologies for it being so wordy – but a lot of material was covered. My presentation walked through some fundamental concepts in […]

A Presentation on ICT for Lawyers

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This post is a summary of a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers on ICT fundamentals. It represents my own opinion, and not that of my employers or anyone else! I apologies for it being so wordy – but a lot of material was covered. My presentation walked through some fundamental concepts in […]

Form Follows Function on SPaMCast 365

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This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 365, features Tom’s essay on Agile Project Charters, Kim Pries on improvisation in software development, and a Form Follows Function installment on customer-driven development. Customer-driven development refers to my post “Maybe It’s Time for Customer Driven Development”, where I discussed the need […]

First Do No Harm – the Practice of Software Development

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Analogies are never perfect, but reading Erik Dietrich’s “Do Programmers Practice Computer Science?” brought one to mind. Software development has much in common with the practice of medicine. Software development, like medicine, involves the application of knowledge. Also like medicine, this application is made complex by considerations of context. Yet another commonality is that in […]

Enterprise Thinking

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When you work as an architect in an enterprise there are some general unrealistic thought pattern present in any enterprise. The first thought pattern is that of being the chosen one. Often companies survive a downtime in the markets (or survive their start up phase with many similar companies failing)with no real explanation or when … Continue reading Enterprise Thinking →

Enterprise Architecture Management IS Collaboration – Gartner Doesn’t Get It

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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 […]