Back on track
With much help from the guys at The Computer Shop (49a Crouch Street, Colchester CO3 3EN; 01206 576043; www.tcs2000.co.uk) – they’ve definitely earned a free advert!) I now have my laptop back, and seem to be back on track. (And …
With much help from the guys at The Computer Shop (49a Crouch Street, Colchester CO3 3EN; 01206 576043; www.tcs2000.co.uk) – they’ve definitely earned a free advert!) I now have my laptop back, and seem to be back on track. (And …
Laptop has been giving the merry ‘blue screen of death’ every couple of days for the past couple of weeks, but has always recovered up till now. Not yesterday. 🙁 Hoping it’s just memory problems. as the shop’s first tests …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …