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 …
More ramblings on the ‘business anarchist’ theme. The conventional ‘scientific’ assumptions about business reality – as in Taylor’s classic ‘Scientific Management‘ – assume that everything is based on predictable Newtonian-style rules and laws. It’s sort-of true, up to a point, …
I’ve been thinking quite a bit more about the ‘business anarchist‘ idea, following a couple of great conversations yesterday with Bas van Gils in the Netherlands and Stuart Curley in London. Hence a few more notes: Every business-consultant is, in …
Back at the TOGAF conference, something that really seemed to be missing was any real description of doing enterprise architecture – in particular, what changes and needs to change in EA practice at each stage of architecture maturity, and how …
For some while now I’ve been using the term ‘business anarchist‘ to describe what I do in the business-architecture context – and yes, it is a sort-of joke, of course, but there’s also something very real behind it. Real anarchy …
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 …
Just realised that I’m doing a whole load of posts to the LinkedIn forums – particularly Serge Thorn’s The Enterprise Architecture Network and Greg Suddreth’s Business Architecture Community – when I really ought to post them here as well. So …
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: …
Okay, so I’m at the TOGAF San Diego conference, where the launch for TOGAF Version 9 is plodding its rather rambling way through. Some very good conversations, but first, a quick first-impressions on the new version – the supposed ‘best …
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 …