As mentioned in the previous post, one of the key characteristics of ‘crossing the chasm’ to a viable whole-of-enterprise architecture is the explicit inclusion of people. In short, we need to be able to model and map where people fit …
This one extends the models-for-enterprise-architecture theme from the previous post. Although for me this theme goes back a long way, the start-point here was a Tweet from Dutch EA consultant Martin van den Berg (@bergmart) that triggered off a veritable …
Just posted on Slideshare my slidedeck ‘Unpacking Business-Architecture‘, from the Biner/OpenGroup enterprise-architecture conference in Stockholm earlier this week. It also represented the first fully public outing for the Enterprise Canvas model, and, in effect, the launch for my latest book, …
I managed to grab the chance to jump over to the Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners conference in Amsterdam earlier this week, to take part in the ‘TOGAF Camp’ ‘unconference’ session. As usual, a lot going on, so I’ve collated …
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 …
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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 …
Back at the launch of TOGAF 9, some eighteen months ago, one of the Open Group leads took me aside to a quiet corner of the hall. He looked around, as if to make sure that none of his colleagues …
A great discussion last night, with A Certain Well-Known Architect Who Asked To Remain Nameless, about my previous post on Microsoft EA’s ‘breakthrough’. One related point provided us both with a certain amount of bleak amusement. Microsoft EA have just …
A couple of weeks back, Gabriel Morgan of Microsoft’s internal Enterprise Strategic Planning unit posted an article on what he described as a ‘breakthrough’ in enterprise-architecture, “A Breakthrough: Maturing EA to be a Catalyst to Transform the Company“: It’s time …
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Another collection of Tweets from the Open Group Boston conference, mostly from Day 3 (21 July 2010), and variously on business-architecture, the EA profession, cloud-computing and a few miscellaneous themes. As before, a few additional comments from me in italics.) …