More on the TOGAF conference
Okay, back ‘home’ in England after the TOGAF conference in San Diego. Time to reflect a bit. First: a real sense that I’m not as on my own in my approach to enterprise-architecture as I thought and felt I’d been: …
Category: Enterprise architecture
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
TOGAF 9 – first impressions
Okay, so I’m at the TOGAF San Diego conference, where the launch for TOGAF Version 9 is plodding its rather rambling way through. Some very good conversations, but first, a quick first-impressions on the new version – the supposed ‘best …
Westward ho?
In transit to San Diego, for the Open Group conference and the launch of TOGAF 9. Weighed down with what feels like a ton of books (though it’s probably only about 30kg – I’d hate to have to carry a …
Visio function-model stencil for 'Services' book
I’ve just uploaded to the Tetradian Books website the ZIP archive of the Visio stencil and template for the function-model process described in the Service Oriented Enterprise book I published a few days ago. The archive includes: Visio 2003 stencil …
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The power of checklists
Spotted this one in the BMJ again: kind of illustrates the power of the pilots’ simple ‘pre-take-off checklist’ – or in this case a similar checklist for surgeons: Research by World Health Organization (“New England Journal of Medicine” 2009 Jan …
Lightning Source lives up to its name
A very definite “Thank you” to POD printers Lightning Source, who’ve not only turned round my new book The Service-Oriented Enterprise in the startling time of just under four days from first uploading the initial source-files to the first box …
Services book is published
Mildly amazing – I did meet that deadline. 🙂 Another new book in my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture series went off to press yesterday: The Service-Oriented Enterprise: enterprise architecture and viable services. So there’s a good chance it’ll be back in …
Quietly busy
Apologies, have been a bit quiet of late, whilst recovering from my merry computer-crash (now fixed, with many thanks to the repair-crew at Colchester’s The Computer Shop), and working flat-out trying to finish off the current book – The Service-Oriented …
Viable System Model and Group Dynamics cycle
I’m currently trundling my way through writing the next book, The Service Oriented Enterprise – still on-track for publication at the end of this month, I’m delighted to say – and came across an interesting point about Stafford Beer’s Viable …
Revised-Zachman reference-sheet available
I’ve now posted on the Tetradian Books website a two-page (single-sheet) reference-sheet on the revised Zachman framework that I use for whole-of-enterprise architecture. The sheet is an extract from the ‘Framework’ chapters in my now at-last published book Bridging the …