(This is part of an ongoing series that attempts to resolve problems in (mis)interpretation of the Cynefin framework, and in particular the commonly-used Cynefin diagram. For the correct interpretation and use of the Cynefin framework and Cynefin techniques, please contact …
The previous posts on ‘chaos and Cynefin’ were intended to contribute to an ongoing debate about how to use concepts from the published Cynefin framework and the like, and particularly to underpin a systematic exploration of what many Cynefin aficionados …
Courtesy of a link by fellow enterprise-architect Sally Bean, I’ve just spent the past couple of hours viewing and then reviewing an online seminar on complexity by one of the thought-leaders on complexity-theory and practice, Dave Snowden: From Induction to …
Been having a long interaction on Twitter over the last couple of days with Jon H Ayre (otherwise known as ‘The Enterprising Architect’, @EnterprisingA) and others, about enterprise-architecture frameworks. (If you’re not interested in enterprise-architecture, probably best to skip this …
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 …
A long post-TOGAF conversation on Friday with enterprise architect and academic Erik Proper brought up the question of what I’ve been calling ‘bindedness’ in metamodels and compliance reference models for enterprise architecture. In conventional models and metamodels, links between items …
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 …
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 …