I’ve just uploaded to the Tetradian Books website the ZIP archive of the Visio stencil and template for the function-model process described in the Service Oriented Enterprise book I published a few days ago. The archive includes: Visio 2003 stencil …
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Spotted this one in the BMJ again: kind of illustrates the power of the pilots’ simple ‘pre-take-off checklist’ – or in this case a similar checklist for surgeons: Research by World Health Organization (“New England Journal of Medicine” 2009 Jan …
Mildly amazing – I did meet that deadline. 🙂 Another new book in my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture series went off to press yesterday: The Service-Oriented Enterprise: enterprise architecture and viable services. So there’s a good chance it’ll be back in …
I’m currently trundling my way through writing the next book, The Service Oriented Enterprise – still on-track for publication at the end of this month, I’m delighted to say – and came across an interesting point about Stafford Beer’s Viable …
I’ve now posted on the Tetradian Books website a two-page (single-sheet) reference-sheet on the revised Zachman framework that I use for whole-of-enterprise architecture. The sheet is an extract from the ‘Framework’ chapters in my now at-last published book Bridging the …
There’s something special about holding a brand new book for the first time… The first set of Silos came back from print-on-demand providers Lightning Source today – impressed, as I hadn’t expected them to deliver before Christmas. Quite odd, really …
Celebrate with me, perhaps? Bridging the Silos: enterprise architecture for IT-architects has at last gone off to press – hooray! 🙂 Somewhat dependent on production-schedules at Lightning Source, but print versions should be available before the end of the month; …
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, …
Forgot to mention that a couple of weeks back I finalised an agreement with IT Governance Ltd for on-selling my Tetradian Enterprise Architecture Series books. That includes both print editions and e-book editions (which is why I pulled the full …
(Reminder that this ‘last chance’ is only about the Enterprise Architecture series on the Tetradian Books website – not the Alternate Realities series such as Disciplines of Dowsing.) Received the e-book publishing contract yesterday, and is dated to begin 10 …