Cynefin again
This one will probably only make sense to those who have some experience of Cynefin (see also Cognitive Edge) – but it should be useful anyway even if you don’t. The diagram shows the usual layout of the Cynefin domains …
Category: Enterprise architecture
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
Recovering from TOGAF, and a Cynefin meetup
It’s taken me about three days to wind down after the flat-out networking / talk-fest that was the TOGAF conference. Today I’ve had to plough my way through something like 45 presentations and half a dozen complete books on various …
At TOGAF
In the area of enterprise-architecture I work in – i.e. real enterprise-level architecture – a real sense of a shift happening since the last TOGAF conference I went to in Paris last year. Last time it was an almost impossible …
TOGAF conference presentation
My presentation for the current TOGAF enterprise-architecture conference in Glasgow is now up on the Tetradian website. Enterprise Architecture and the service-oriented enterprise (PDF, 850kb) – click here It’s another variant on Tom’s usual rant on enterprise-architecture, I suppose. Core …
'Real Enterprise Architecture' book
This is the cover for the first in my new ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, which went off to proof-press a couple of days ago. Aim was to have it ready in time for the TOGAF Glasgow conference on enterprise-architecture – …
Enterprise architecture stuff
I’ve been doing a bit of back-and-forth with editor Annelies vdV for the very final page-proof tweaks to my article (among 32 others) in the upcoming itSMF / Van Haren IT Service Management Global Best Practices Part 1 (2008) . …
Work in progress – an overview
Been kind of hiding again, I guess: partly yet another oh-no-not-again cold – something to do with this house, I think, or just the fact of joyous English weather? – and partly because I’m once again trying to hold together …
Requirements vs constraints
This one’s a follow-on to a comment in one of the Content Economy articles I referenced yesterday: What is Enterprise Architecture? – “Architecture is the art of matching requirements with constraints in complex situations”. In conventional requirements-modelling, we only model …
EA and the Content Economy
Following the trail of links from a starting-point provided by David Gurteen‘s knowledge-management newsletter brought me to a collective of IT-related types in Sweden (I think?) who post to a blog called The Content Economy. Very much worth reading, from …
Signs of movement at the EA Corral
At last, a vendor model of enterprise-architecture that doesn’t assume that the enterprise-architecture world begins and ends with IT. This is from Metastorm, who now own the ProVision EA toolset. The main product page shows the usual oh-yawn ‘business architecture …