Metablog
Following the lead from one of my TOGAF colleagues, Erik Proper, I really ought to set up a ‘metablog’ – a blog about the things I need to blog about… Today’s example comes from a Twitter exchange with Sarah Runge …
Category: Scribbles / writing
Books, articles, novels, screenwriting and anything in that general genre
"Doing Enterprise Architecture" now available on Amazon
Delighted to say that Lightning Source have done it again with my new book Doing Enterprise Architecture: a one-week turn-round from sending in the PDF source-files to delivery of the first fifty copies on my doorstep. Very impressive. And the …
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"Doing Enterprise Architecture" is complete
Delighted to say that I’ve now completed the next book in my ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, Doing Enterprise Architecture: process and practice in the real enterprise, with the master-files now delivered to Lightning Source for printing. The sample-version PDF is …
Oh no not again…
My colleague Shawn Callahan from Australian business-knowledge consultancy Anecdote kindly posted a link via Twitter to the ‘Girleffect.org’ website Just rewatching http://girleffect.org to remind myself how to use mystery to setup a presentation As he says in the post, the …
Twittering
I’m now on Twitter, if that might be of interest to anyone. 🙂
Metageum conference
A few days ago I had a last-minute request to present at the Metageum conference in London this weekend. (Don’t quite know how to categorise Metageum: kind of an earth-mysteries focus – Stonehenge and that sort of stuff, if you …
TOGAF London
Just had confirmation from the Open Group that they’ve accepted my proposed presentation for the TOGAF London enterprise architecture conference at the end of April. Working title is Stepping-Stones of Enterprise Architecture, with the following abstract: TOGAF 9 includes a …
More on the TOGAF conference
Okay, back ‘home’ in England after the TOGAF conference in San Diego. Time to reflect a bit. First: a real sense that I’m not as on my own in my approach to enterprise-architecture as I thought and felt I’d been: …
Visio function-model stencil for 'Services' book
I’ve just uploaded to the Tetradian Books website the ZIP archive of the Visio stencil and template for the function-model process described in the Service Oriented Enterprise book I published a few days ago. The archive includes: Visio 2003 stencil …
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Lightning Source lives up to its name
A very definite “Thank you” to POD printers Lightning Source, who’ve not only turned round my new book The Service-Oriented Enterprise in the startling time of just under four days from first uploading the initial source-files to the first box …