Delighted to say that Lightning Source have done it again with my new book Doing Enterprise Architecture: a one-week turn-round from sending in the PDF source-files to delivery of the first fifty copies on my doorstep. Very impressive. And the …
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More cross-posts from the LinkedIn enterprise-architecture lists, this time about cloud-computing and enterprise architecture. (This one’s long, so I’ll put a ‘More’ link in here.)
Been thinking of another way to distinguish between enterprise architecture (the real ‘whole of enterprise’ form, not IT-architecture masquerading as ‘enterprise’ architecture) and business architecture, because at first glance they seem to cover much the same scope. Perhaps the simplest …
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Delighted to say that I’ve now completed the next book in my ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, Doing Enterprise Architecture: process and practice in the real enterprise, with the master-files now delivered to Lightning Source for printing. The sample-version PDF is …
Following along the ‘Assets and enterprise architecture‘ theme, one of the questions that came up in the matching thread on LinkedIn was from Mike Stewart, which in effect illustrates well some of the distinctions about physical assets versus data-assets. His …
In another interesting thread on LinkedIn, Roderick Lim Banda suggested that one way to resolve some of the arguments about what enterprise architecture is would be to ask what it isn’t. The discussion has gone round the houses a bit, …
Another cross-post from the discussions on LinkedIn. Over there, Pat Ferdinandi has been throwing me some really valuable challenges around this whole issue of assets in enterprise architecture – for example: hmmm…service is not an asset? That made my mind …
(This is a thread I’ve started over on the enterprise-architecture lists on LinkedIn, but thought I’d also place it here.) The start-point was a throwaway comment by a guy on one of the lists that was probably meant to be …
Just had confirmation from the Open Group that they’ve accepted my proposed presentation for the TOGAF London enterprise architecture conference at the end of April. Working title is Stepping-Stones of Enterprise Architecture, with the following abstract: TOGAF 9 includes a …
Still in catch-up mode after a very useful (and pleasant) trip over to the Netherlands, to see Bas van Gils, Erik Proper at Capgemini Utrecht, and Jos van Oosten of Q-Tips NL. Bas is characteristic of a new generation of …