enterprise architecture ea blog posts

Enterprise Architecture in posts going back a decade (vii)

The type of work an Enterprise Architect does
I realize that many of us, Enterprise Architects, our pay masters, and recruiters emphasize at times different aspects of EA. But they are all part of an ...
The Enterprise Architecture book cover & extracts published in my blog sidebar
Just click on the side bar, in this blog, and you would get: * An Enterprise Architecture Development Framework book cover * An Enterprise Architecture ...
The Value of Enterprise Architecture as data
The EArchitect has to model and document the views that reveal the relevant data for stakeholders but not interpret it for them. Every stakeholder would use the ...
Enterprise SOA CSFs, column in Microsoft's 21st Architecture Journal
SOA should be primarily approached as a business development, a Business Architecture, a way to structure the Enterprise, a style of target Enterprise ...
How to do Business Architecture
EA architecture narrowed to IT fails to reveal the structure or operation of the Enterprise i.e. the Enterprise Architecture. What would a picture with an ERP, ...
The Business and IT alignment issue
An Enterprise Architecture is, amongst other, a late attempt to fix business and IT alignment issues caused by a lack of an overall Enterprise Architectural ...
The Enterprise Architecture 10++ commands
Gartner has recently defined 10 EA pitfalls. I take this opportunity to post here my 10++ EA commands, best practices and key success factors. Please comment ...
The Importance of the EA framework
Without a framework though, it is impossible to have forseeable and repeatable outcomes. Two EA teams would come at very different results for the same ...
Gartner's 10 Enterprise Architecture pitfalls
10 EA pitfalls. They include: "1. The Wrong Lead Architect: Gartner identified the single biggest EA problem as a chief architect who is an ineffective ...
Gartner's Emergent Architecture
There were quite a few reactions to Gartner's Emergent Architecture proposition. "Architect the lines, not the boxes" is one new precept. Well, lines ...
EA, a collaborative business process, organization and IT architecture design and transformation effort
What is EA all about in these times and era? Good question after so many years of "doing" EA. But people seem to ask this question again. Gartner appears to ...
Enterprise Architecture books and other
Back from holidays, eager for news and information. Here is an EA site you may like and need. It reviews quite a few EA books. My book is included, albeit the ...
Enterprise Architecture and its state
EA frameworks should enforce repeatable or predictable results so that even if you build your EA in two different Enterprises in the same industry, they should ...
What is the scope of an Enterprise Architecture?
To what extent an Enterprise Architecture effort, Strategy or a more common IT development can be applied Enterprise wide across geographies or business ...
Enterprise Architecture in 3 minutes or so
My challenge, for a while, was to describe Enterprise Architecture in just a few minutes to people who would give me a chance. That is to explain the ...
IAF, Integrated Architecture Framework, analysis
"Capgemini has been developing its own architecture approach that covers business, information and technology since 1993". Quote from Cap's web site. Here it ...
The Enterprise Architecture training course content
I have recently finalized a training course in Enterprise Architecture and SOA. It cover issues from business case, framework, to single page EA and examples, ...
The Enterprise Architecture Development Framework, book contents
This book, the 3rd edition, is intended to go past the existing taxonomy and process frameworks to help you justify the EA, build it, based on best practices, ...
The Enterprise Architecture Socratic approach
But no EA framework currently provides Enterprise reference maps or templates to show the structure of the Enterprise, the typical parts in interconnection. It ...
The Enterprise Architecture Black Hole (ii)
On the other hand we have the "method" cult. This, in a "deus ex machina" manner, promisses results if you follow the process provided. In my experience, in a ...