Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
This one’s a follow-up to a useful comment today by David Deighton to my ‘TOGAF Certified‘ entry back in August. David asks: However I’m a little concerned about the idea that Enterprise Architecture is somehow bigger than IT Architecture. Who …
A somewhat-belated (sorry, Dave 🙁 ) pointer to David Snowden and Mary Boone’s article A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, in the current Harvard Business Review. Tagline is: Wise executives tailor their approach to fit the complexity of the circumstances …
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:]