Celebrate with me, perhaps? Bridging the Silos: enterprise architecture for IT-architects has at last gone off to press – hooray! 🙂 Somewhat dependent on production-schedules at Lightning Source, but print versions should be available before the end of the month; …

'Silos' is published – at last! Read more »

Delighted to see that Shawn Callahan and some of his Anecdote colleagues who I worked with in Melbourne are coming ‘oop North’ to run a series of narrative-knowledge / business-storytelling workshops in London in June 2009. Shawn was the one …

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Was intending to miss the next TOGAF conference – it’s in February, in San Diego, which means dealing with all the joys of US ‘Homeland Security’ as well as a seriously expensive travel-bill. But it looks like I’d better go, …

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Forgot to mention that a couple of weeks back I finalised an agreement with IT Governance Ltd for on-selling my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture Series books. That includes both print editions and e-book editions (which is why I pulled the full …

Publishing via IT Governance Read more »

Still recovering somewhat from a thoroughly nasty run-in with a guy named Wolf, on an on-line list about future vision for enterprise-architecture. (For obvious legal reasons, I’d probably better not give any more details than that.) To give some idea, …

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Been re-reading Len Fehskens’ presentation “Re-thinking architecture” [may require login] at the last TOGAF enterprise architecture practitioners conference in Munich. His intro [public] indicates at last a fundamental shift in thinking about enterprise architecture, away from the inane IT-centric world …

Architecture versus design Read more »