Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Settling down in Sydney, with a client that actually wants real enterprise-architecture rather than the usual the-world-begins-and-ends-with-IT pseudo-architecture. Hooray! The only catch is that where I’m staying is in a non-broadband zone, so it’s back on dialup again, and it’s …
I’m off to Sydney tonight, on a four-month contract to set up an enterprise-architecture capability for a government department there. Will be off-air till I get things settled down in Aus. Shouldn’t be more than a couple of days, though.
Rushing to get everything ready for the trip to Sydney this evening, but I have completed the first draft of the enterprise-architecture book. Working-title is “Real Enterprise-Architecture: Beyond IT to the whole enterprise“. You’ll find the PDF here – though …
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 …
With much help from the guys at The Computer Shop (49a Crouch Street, Colchester CO3 3EN; 01206 576043; www.tcs2000.co.uk) – they’ve definitely earned a free advert!) I now have my laptop back, and seem to be back on track. (And …
Laptop has been giving the merry ‘blue screen of death’ every couple of days for the past couple of weeks, but has always recovered up till now. Not yesterday. 🙁 Hoping it’s just memory problems. as the shop’s first tests …
After three months of time-wasting travail in this “foggy, dull and raw… nook-shotten isle of Albion”, turns out the only place I can get a real enterprise-architecture gig is back in Australia… So it looks like I’m back on the …
Shawn Callahan at Anecdote kindly asked for a ‘preview of the topics’ in the enterprise-architecture book that I’m brewing. Existing enterprise-architecture frameworks – particularly TOGAF – all have a blurry, ill-described box labelled ‘business architecture’, which you’re supposed to deal …
Apologies for being a bit quiet lately: I’m working flat-out on a mini-book on enterprise-architecture, with the aim of having it ready, preferably in printed form, in time for the next TOGAF conference, in Paris, in late April 2007 (23-25, …
One of the few online newsletters I subscribe to is that of Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and other great ideas – and this time he came up trumps, with an article called “Building a Relationship Economy” (not …