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Enterprise Architecture (EA) has great potential, no doubt about it.
Because it can describe the enterprise in a structured manner as never before.
Think of the Enterprise as a virtual body consisting of parts, processes, systems, peo…
With the ongoing pressures from budget cuts, escalating demands and and aging workforce, we need to start looking at shared services models.
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Throughout this blog series we talked about using ArchiMate, and approaches for setting up ArchiMate models. We first discussed a top-down, and then a bottom-up approach, and presented examples from our consulting practice for both. Now here i…
This one came through from a colleague on the Twitterstream a couple days back, presumably somewhat channeling John Lennon: Imagine no possessions, we’d all love to see the plan And yeah, it’s a concern (complaint?) I get a lot about…
As soon as you, as an enterprise architect, want to address the problem of the complex Business-IT landscape, and you actually acknowledge in a discussion that Enterprise Architecture has come into existence because of the complexity of modern IT-laden landscapes, … Continue reading →
By Priya Patra, Sr. Manager at IGATE Global Solutions I have been an Agile Practitioner for years now, have been in many successful Agile executed projects. But as an Enterprise Architect I am somewhat skeptical about the fact how the … Continue reading →
TOGAF certification has become a de-facto baseline for endorsing the skills of an enterprise architect. But how does it really help you? This article looks at 5 things you can do, in addition to becoming TOGAF Certified, that will help you develop as an Enterprise Architect. Read the full article: https://www.goodelearning.com/downloads/enterprise-architecture/what-does-togaf-certification-really-mean-to-you?
Often business cases of architects will contain the rule of reuse, especially if those architects are engineers. However there are two inherit problems in this area. the first is that of a business case. The assumption behind a business case is that we can predict the future and break down all complexities into a simple … Continue reading The lie of reuse →
This little canvas is part of my toolbox for detailing and documenting scenarios. The Scenario Canvas Note: I’m currently in a process of changing my presentation design (the image shows what the new design looks like) for all my work. When I’ve stabilized the design and applied it across all canvases and related material I’ll […]
Agile and Architecture seemed to be, rightly or wrongly, often discussed together today. Should Enterprise Architecture be Agile? This is the question we all ask in fact.
Let’s go back to basics.
Agile is the developer’s way to do more work with…
This #eavoices post is the first in a series of n posts about enterprise architecture today and tomorrow. In this first post, I will dig into the EA Voices database and look for some trends. With 3.2 million words in over 5400 posts, written by 135 authors over the past 5 years, EA Voices is …
Sometimes, Enterprise Architecture efforts fail. This is no surprise to folks in the EA business. This failure occurred slowly, back in 2007 and 2008. But it did occur. It took me a while to realize it. I had developed a method useful for Application Portfolio Management as well as for Service Oriented Architecture called “Solution…