Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
I’m plodding away on my next ‘mini-book’ on real enterprise-architecture, with a working-title of Bridging the Silos: enterprise-architecture for IT-architects. Currently on the third chapter, of nineteen planned – which is further on than it sounds, ‘cos much of the …
Oh joys – snuffling through a vile cold that, unlike the usual pattern, has been getting steadily worse for days… Oh well, such is life and other four-letter words… Mainly working at present on the ‘enterprise-architecture for IT-architects‘ mini-book – …
Just heard from itSMF (IT Services Management Forum – the people who promote ITIL beyond its UK Government roots) that they’ve accepted my proposal for a chapter in their upcoming IT Services Best Practices book. Basic theme for the chapter …
More internet searches. Been chasing down the distinctions between taxonomy, ontology and suchlike for the new mini-book on ‘enterprise-architecture for IT-architects’. There’s a useful set of Wikipedia links, of course: taxonomy (literally, “the arrangement of names”) – one of the …
Finally got round to doing my TOGAF Certified Practitioner exam for IT-architecture (I will not call what they do ‘enterprise architecture…). And happy to report that I did indeed pass, and quite well, too (84%), despite a bunch of highly …
One more item from the Michael Ellyett conversation, and then I really must back to some of my other work! 🙂
In one of the previous posts on this general thread I wailed: The catch is that there really isn’t any other term for what we do than ‘enterprise architecture’. To try to get round this ‘poisoning’ of the term, I’ve …
More from the email conversations with Michael Ellyett. [Oops… this post’s gotten even longer than the previous one – better put in a ‘More’ link:]
Starting point for this thread was my comment that though I agreed with Michael Ellyett that some kind of repository-based toolset was essential for enterprise-architecture, it was also necessary to trial it on paper first. Michael disagreed: I don’t think …
Been having a truly excellent back-and-forth via email on enterprise-architecture and the like with Michael Ellyett, CTO of RHE & Associates, a New Zealand/Australia-based EA consultancy and ANZ distributor for the Troux Metis toolset. I’ll try to summarise what’s been …