Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
I’ve now posted on the Tetradian Books website a two-page (single-sheet) reference-sheet on the revised TOGAF ADM that I use for whole-of-enterprise architecture. The sheet is an extract from the ‘Methodology’ chapters in my still somewhat delayed book Bridging the …
I hadn’t intended to go to TOGAF Munich this week, but a chance email from Jos van Oosten (the lead for the SqEME process framework, over in the Netherlands) got me glancing at the conference agenda – and what I …
Diana Stobart Wild’s other question on the LinkedIn business architecture forum was about frameworks: What is Business Architecture? What does a Business Architecture Framework look like? I think of Business Architecture as a subset of Enterprise Architecture that describes the …
Been following a ‘business architecture’ thread on LinkedIn, and came across a couple of discussion-questions by Diana Stobart Wild, who seems to be an enterprise architect somewhere in the north-east US. Thought it might be useful repeating here what I …
A theme which came up several times in the Troux Directions conference, and came up in several different ways, was the need for some means to share and exchange enterprise-architecture information between multiple organisations, so as to handle the reality …
Spent Thursday at the Troux Directions conference in London, hosted by Troux, one of the leading vendors of toolsets for for enterprise architecture. A good day in many ways, yet overall I’ll admit I did come away feeling more than …
What happens at the other end of enterprise-architecture? What local knowledge is needed to implement the abstractions of an overall architecture ‘blueprint’ in real practice in the real world? Whilst reviewing research for another book (in another subject area, somewhat …
Following up on my conversation with Chris Potts, a link to another enterprise-architecture group, the Global Enterprise Architecture Organisation – see http://www.geao.org/. Clicking on the ‘What we believe’ link on their home-page brought up this statement: We believe that the …
A great conversation last week with IT-strategy consultant Chris Potts of Dominic Barrow ( http://www.dominicbarrow.com/ ), who’s also a regular columnist for CIO.com, an online magazine for CIOs. In terms of his position on the role of enterprise architecture, in …
This somewhat impenetrable acronym is one of the best things I’ve seen in enterprise architecture for a fair old while, ‘cos it means that someone is thinking wider than just IT boxes… The ‘someone’ in this case is Nigel Green …