One of those great back-and-forth Tweet-conversations: this time about the relationship between technology-architecture and enterprise-architecture, triggered by a post by Forrester consultant Gene Leganza on ‘15 Tech Trends EA Should Watch‘ (ZDNet summary here). The conversation meandered to a set …
Have been having a bit of a struggle with two particularly intransigent types over on LinkedIn, in the long-running thread on “EA is the glue between strategy and execution”. They’ve been insisting that their own particular views on enterprise-architecture are …
I’m occasionally accused of being overly pedantic about definitions in enterprise architecture, but there are times when it matters a lot. This came up this morning in a long-running thread on LinkedIn, where someone had been telling me off for …
What are principles? And are they ends or means? This came up in a great conversation the other day with Kevin Smith, creator of the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PEAF). He’d been having a fairly intense online discussion with another …
One of the most essential tasks in enterprise-architecture is that of enabling conversations on architectural issues, with any groups of stakeholders, anywhere across the enterprise. Our toolsets play an important role in those conversations. The right tool used in the …
Next-generation toolsets for enterprise-architecture? Read more »
At last – at last – there’s now a ‘framework for enterprise-architecture’ that’s actually worthy of that title. (Many thanks to Craig Martin of Australian consultancy Enterprise Architects for the Tweet that brought this to my attention, though I suppose …
One of the comments on the previous post on the unacknowledged risks of  ‘cooperative IT’ triggered off an essay-length response that really deserves its own post. So here it is. 🙂 The comment that started it off was from Ric …
Architecture disaster? – we have an app for that! Read more »
Twitter-correspondent Craig Hepburn posted a Tweet this morning pointing to Dion Hinchcliffe‘s excellent ZDNet article, ‘CoIT: how an accidental future is becoming reality‘, about the current rise and rise of ‘consumer IT’ or ‘cooperative IT’: It’s a story as old …
History seems to be all in vogue in Cynefin circles at present. On one side, for example, there’s Cynthia Kurtz – the too-often-unacknowledged co-creator of Cynefin, and originator of some of its key concepts such as the crucial distinctions between …
There’s a core theme that reaches right to the heart of every enterprise-architecture: what is the appropriate tradeoff between sameness versus uniqueness? The classic Taylorist solution has been to emphasise extreme sameness: to force everything – and everyone – to be …