Apologies: this is going to be another long one, and probably more technical than most people want to see (especially at Christmas? 🙂 ). But I do promise that it’ll be useful to you if you’re interested in methodology of …
(Following up on the furore from my previous post – somewhat tongue-in-cheek, of course, but with a serious point.) After Dave Snowden started accusing everyone – especially me – of ‘pseudoscience’ and ‘psychobabble’ – I began to worry. What if …
Many thanks to Tom Cagley of Software Process & Measurement, who interviewed me a few weeks ago for a podcast on enterprise architecture for his SPaMcast.net audience. (Likewise many thanks to Pat Ferdinandi for linking me up with Tom in …
Vision, Role, Mission, Goal: a framework for business motivation View more OpenOffice presentations from Tom Graves.
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 …
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 …
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 …