Continuing on the theme of the ‘This’ game for engaging people in enterprise-architecture exploration and development, as described in the two previous posts ‘This: an exploratory game for service-oriented EA‘ and ‘More on the ‘This’ game for enterprise-architecture‘. The final …

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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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Architects are designers too. Application-architecture designs link across an array of applications, process-architects design ways to link processes together, business-architects design business-models and their linkage into the everyday practices of the organisation. That much should be obvious, I would presume. …

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A great session last week with tool-vendor Alfabet, at their launch of a new London-based enterprise-architecture interest-group. (There’d been a previous one run by Microsoft, but it’d closed down somewhen late last year. This looks like it’ll be a very …

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I’ve just uploaded to the Tetradian Books website the ZIP archive of the Visio stencil and template for the function-model process described in the Service Oriented Enterprise book I published a few days ago. The archive includes: Visio 2003 stencil …

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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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Spent Thursday at the Troux Directions conference in London, hosted by Troux, one of the leading vendors of toolsets for for enterprise architecture. A good day in many ways, yet overall I’ll admit I did come away feeling more than …

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