On the road again?
After three months of time-wasting travail in this “foggy, dull and raw… nook-shotten isle of Albion”, turns out the only place I can get a real enterprise-architecture gig is back in Australia… So it looks like I’m back on the …
More on the EA book
Shawn Callahan at Anecdote kindly asked for a ‘preview of the topics’ in the enterprise-architecture book that I’m brewing. Existing enterprise-architecture frameworks – particularly TOGAF – all have a blurry, ill-described box labelled ‘business architecture’, which you’re supposed to deal …
Out in the back-room
Apologies for being a bit quiet lately: I’m working flat-out on a mini-book on enterprise-architecture, with the aim of having it ready, preferably in printed form, in time for the next TOGAF conference, in Paris, in late April 2007 (23-25, …
The relationship economy, and more
One of the few online newsletters I subscribe to is that of Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and other great ideas – and this time he came up trumps, with an article called “Building a Relationship Economy” (not …
And more enterprise-architecture
Been hammering away over the past few weeks, trying to get down on paper (or equivalent) some of the ideas I’ve been brewing on enterprise-architecture and such-like. Hence yet another Powerpoint on the Tetradian website, on the exciting (to very …
Skill-sets for enterprise-architects
A really good article on the skill-sets needed by enterprise-architects: Sally Bean, The elusive enterprise architect. I’d say it’s the closest I’ve ever seen to a straight business-type description of what I do in my professional work as Tetradian Consulting …
More on 'Vision, role, mission, goal'
Some considerable time ago I promised more on the ‘Vision, role, mission, goal’ framework, my basic model for an ‘audit-trail’ for business motivation. So yup, I’ve finally gotten Round To It: it’s now up on the Tetradian site as a …
Architecture as system
Probably the wrong meaning of ‘architecture’ for most people, unfortunately. But if your bent is what’s known as ‘enterprise architecture’ in the IT-systems field, you may find useful a new presentation available for download from my Tetradian website. Full title …
TWoPS at first-hand
Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work, which I ‘must’ do in order to be able to …
More on TWPS
A few more comments on That Worst Possible System (TWPS), whilst I’m still bashing the ideas around in my head. It’s interesting to look at some of the other artefacts and distortions of TWPS, aka the ‘normal’ money-based (or more …