More TOGAF

Despite my previous worries, my current clients have given me the go-ahead to go to the TOGAF Paris conference anyway – much appreciated, though it should be a win/win all round.

Working title is

“Unpacking ‘Phase B’: Business Architecture, Business Transformation and Business Buy-In”

(‘Phase B’ being the rather thin section on business-architecture in the TOGAF methodology).

Summary is as follows:

“Given enterprise-architecture’s IT heritage, it’s not surprising that most EA attention is still focussed on technology, applications and data. But without a strong integration to business-architecture, we have no business buy-in – and, soon, no business support. Using examples from a variety of business-transformation projects in Australia and elsewhere, this presentation explores what works, and what doesn’t, in creating that integration – and illustrates one possible way toward a broader-based enterprise-architecture.”

The ‘one possible way toward a broader-based enterprise-architecture’ will essentially be a very stripped-down summary of the methodology I’m describing in the new book. Which is coming on well, despite last week’s merry blue-screen-of-death hiatus: I’m actually slightly ahead of schedule, just starting Chapter 18 or, to put it another way, the middle chapter in the fourth out of five sections. Sanity-permitting, I’ve a good chance to have the first draft complete by the end of next week: let me know if you’d like to review it for me then.