What can we call EA?
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 …
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 …
Michael Ellyett brought up some very good points in his comments on rethinking Zachman and TOGAF. The reply is going to have to be long, so I’ll put a ‘More’ link in at this point. 🙂
Another perhaps-not-so-minor tweak in rethinking the Zachman columns. My mistake: should have spotted it earlier. Seems that Zachman’s labelling of the ‘When’ column as ‘Time’ is a bit like his description of the ‘Who’ column as ‘People’ – it’s ‘obvious’, …
…and on a totally different subject… …just been to see the new Jason Bourne film, The Bourne Ultimatum, with Matt Damon again as the lead, and one of my favourite female actors, the ever-versatile Joan Allen, back in a strong …
Had a few responses already to this ‘Rethinking Zachman’ set of posts, some of them as comments, others direct by email. Although the emails are obviously personal, and need to remain anonymous unless otherwise indicated, the content of one of …
To summarise this overall review of the Zachman framework over the past few posts: The rows or perspectives: Row 0: ‘Universals‘ (Zachman: not present) – core constants to which everything should align Row 1: ‘Scope‘ (Zachman: ‘Planner’) – core entities …
Finally, the last of the amended Zachman columns – the ‘Why‘ column. Zachman describes this column as ‘motivation’, and defines the primitive as ‘ends / means’. That definition would give us problems straight away, because it’s another pseudo-primitive: not ‘Why’ …