Still recovering somewhat from a thoroughly nasty run-in with a guy named Wolf, on an on-line list about future vision for enterprise-architecture. (For obvious legal reasons, I’d probably better not give any more details than that.) To give some idea, …

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Been re-reading Len Fehskens’ presentation “Re-thinking architecture” [may require login] at the last TOGAF enterprise architecture practitioners conference in Munich. His intro [public] indicates at last a fundamental shift in thinking about enterprise architecture, away from the inane IT-centric world …

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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 …

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Diana Stobart Wild’s other question on the LinkedIn business architecture forum was about frameworks: What is Business Architecture? What does a Business Architecture Framework look like? I think of Business Architecture as a subset of Enterprise Architecture that describes the …

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Been following a ‘business architecture’ thread on LinkedIn, and came across a couple of discussion-questions by Diana Stobart Wild, who seems to be an enterprise architect somewhere in the north-east US. Thought it might be useful repeating here what I …

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A theme which came up several times in the Troux Directions conference, and came up in several different ways, was the need for some means to share and exchange enterprise-architecture information between multiple organisations, so as to handle the reality …

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