Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
One of the most challenging aspects in our role as architects is that we often have to influence without direct authority. We often wrestle with this fact as we may not have the managerial clout and there may be lack of clarity on what precisely we are accountable for. Perhaps simply stated, we have to be THE accountable party for…
I have been working on a business architecture practice dashboard to help BA leaders manage and grow their practice. The dashboard contains three basic metric types: impact, value, and activity. Each type provides valuable insight into business architecture’s performance and organizational impact. In this post, I focus on value contribution metrics. Value contribution metrics report […]
What is magic? And how would it apply in enterprise-architecture? Don’t worry – I haven’t gone crazy! (Well, not completely crazy, anyway…) It’s just I’ve been doing a lot of pondering lately on that classic phrase by Arthur C Clarke, that…
Last week I attended the Business Architecture Innovation Summit sponsored by the Business Architecture Guild. One of the most common hallway topics was how to demonstrate value. I had a number of interesting conversations that led me to the following four business architecture value propositions: Return on investment. An ROI approach may be necessary […]
As I set off on my Sunday morning run, I said to myself “don’t think about your blog”. I’d been having trouble getting this blog to work. I wanted to write about the relationship between circular economy and other fundamental changes that people are trying to achieve – but it kept coming out abstract and, […]
Last week I tweeted If corporations were socially responsible, we wouldn’t need a name for it. and was taken aback by how many retweets I got for it. It obviously struck a chord with a lot of folks. And, picking up on my previous post, it has everything to do with how vested interests respond […]
It didn’t look like much. Not worth much, certainly. It had been a gift from a friend, a former colleague: I’d had it for years, kept it reasonably safe in an old battered ring-case, until finally it was lost somewhere.…
Originally posted on Liliendahl on Data Quality:
All airports have a tree letter code usually being a mnemonic of the city name or airport name. The airport at Saint Petersburg in Russia thus has the code LED because the code was assigned when the city was called LEningraD. That’s how it is with master data:…
If thought precedes action, what idea does enterprise architecture move towards?
The clarity of a signal lifted out of the noise? Tidy cubicles or hacker spaces?
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that that now the task of the enterprise arc…
If thought precedes action, what idea does enterprise architecture move towards?
The clarity of a signal lifted out of the noise? Tidy cubicles or hacker spaces?
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that that now the task of the enterprise architect.
(Apologies to Beckett).
Link: http://enklare.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/architecture-in-the-domain-of-economics/ From Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture 00
Considering which features to realize should be dependent on time to market for the product and difficulty of realization. Properly used this little tool can help architects balance the organization cash flow. Using this kind of diagraming technique it’s easy to get a comparison overview across many products. 