A ‘tweet’ on Twitter pointed me to Colin Beveridge’s post ‘Enterprise Aliens‘, on his “Trillion Dollar Bonfire” website. (Colin estimates that over the past few decades at least a trillion dollars have been wasted worldwide on useless corporate IT – …
Another month, another enterprise-architecture conference, in the hope that it won’t be just another more-of-the-same ‘IT-architecture pretending to be enterprise architecture’. This time, at the IRM-UK Enterprise Architecture Conference 2009 (EAC2009) in London earlier this week, that hope actually showed …
Nick Malik of Microsoft kindly wrote back a comment to my (as he put it) “not flattering, to say the least” earlier post on his Enterprise Business Motivation Model (EBMM) First off, many thanks, and I do acknowledge that, to …
Yet another month, yet another enterprise-architecture conference that I need to go to and can’t possibly afford; and yet another month gone by without the slightest hint of any paid work. (Fully half the speakers at that conference are people …
Over the past few weeks and months I’ve been hammering away at ideas for metamodels (or metametamodels) for enterprise architecture, with the longer-term aim of triggering development of an Open Source-style enterprise architecture toolset. So I’ve taken some time off …
Yikes! Talk about misinterpreted in a sound-bite… 🙁 (Before I go any further, a note to all in the TOGAF training/education community: from what you’ve read elsewhere, you may at present believe that I’ve been attacking you personally. As you’ll …
One of the ArchiMate crew, Remco Blom, pointed me to Nick Malik’s article on the Microsoft MSDN site describing and launching his ‘Enterprise Business Motivation Model’. A quick summary: it’s an interesting attempt to unify various other business-motivation models, but …
(This is an edited version of some notes I’ve already posted to the Enterprise Architecture Network list of LinkedIn.) Two points particularly stick in my mind about what transpired at the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture conference in London this past week. …
Still recovering from the TOGAF conference – about which I need to do a blog-report later, ‘cos some major shifts there – and still ridiculously tired from the way-too-early-start, way-too-late-finish days of the conference itself. But a key point came …
Been spending the past couple of days thinking long and hard about what’s needed for an Open Source kind of enterprise architecture toolset. On the one side, there’s the work by people such as Charles Edwards and others at Agile …