Over on the Enterprise Architecture list on LinkedIn, Bala Somasundaram asked about the concept of value-trees as a means of tracking compliance to enterprise values, and thence as a means for validating the value of enterprise architecture. Value-trees are a …
Another item from the LinkedIn conversations. We’d been having a detailed discussion on the internal structure of TOGAF 9, when the following comment came from one of the other participants: “I see TOGAF 9 as an SDLC method with a …
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: …
In transit to San Diego, for the Open Group conference and the launch of TOGAF 9. Weighed down with what feels like a ton of books (though it’s probably only about 30kg – I’d hate to have to carry a …
Was intending to miss the next TOGAF conference – it’s in February, in San Diego, which means dealing with all the joys of US ‘Homeland Security’ as well as a seriously expensive travel-bill. But it looks like I’d better go, …
I’ve now posted on the Tetradian Books website a two-page (single-sheet) reference-sheet on the revised TOGAF ADM that I use for whole-of-enterprise architecture. The sheet is an extract from the ‘Methodology’ chapters in my still somewhat delayed book Bridging the …
I hadn’t intended to go to TOGAF Munich this week, but a chance email from Jos van Oosten (the lead for the SqEME process framework, over in the Netherlands) got me glancing at the conference agenda – and what I …