Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
As some of you know, there will be another Troux Worldwide Conference in Austin, Texas on March 28-29, 2012. As some of you may of noticed from my blog and my tweets, I really enjoyed listening to the customer sessions…
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” – Oscar Wilde You’ve all heard the typical anecdotes about the speed of growth of the Internet and Twitter. Here is…
This is largely an extract of Wikipedia’s Eponymous Lays page. I have added a few other items along the way. There are 3 sections: Fun Laws, General Laws & Technology…
This is some dot points from an excellent article by Richard Veryard discussing Stafford Beer’s maxim that the “Purpose Of a System Is What It Does” or “POSIWID“. Richard points…
This is some notes that I took whilst watching a presentation by Erik Dörnenburg (@erikdoe), Head of Technology Europe at ThoughtWorks. The presentation is titled “What is enterprise architecture?” and…
This article written by Alex Matthews (@remembermytweet) OK, so here is a quick brainstorm of key concepts that every EA should know. It is literally a 5 minute brainstorm exercise…
In her wildly popular book, Enterprise Architecture As Strategy, Dr. Jeanne Ross describes the use of “core diagrams” in Enterprise Architecture. Shortly after introducing the notion of “operating models”, she provided fou…
Hypothesis: One way to change an organization is to join it. Can we prove or disprove this hypothesis? I had a long lunch with a friend of mine (whom I’ll call Joseph) who was interviewing at an analyst firm that freely shares opinions on Ente…
I was at the Architecture Summit this weekend and we spun up a roundtable topic based on Steve Jobs. I quickly stepped back and reflected more precisely on the topic of what we as Enterprise Architects can learn from Steve…
I am really excited about the new release of ArchiMate. The reason I am so excited is that for the first time ArchiMate complements TOGAF with a compelling, versatile and unambiguous visual modeling language that covers the end to end…
Along side the release of the ArchiMate 2.0 specification, a new certification for the ArchiMate has been released this week. ArchiMate, an Open Group Standard, is an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture that is supported by different…
First and foremost, a big thank you to the attendees of my session. We filled the room! All the interaction and questions were top notch. I really enjoyed presenting to all of you. In my session, Why EA’s Must Drive…