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All the time I get the questions about how to do current state architecture or “as-is” architecture at executive briefings (EBC), at events or through our customers. Recently I was asked about this in regards to an effort a large enterprise that is undergoing
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Last week Sohel Aziz’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Infosys released there annual EA survey from their very large customer base. You can download the comprehensive report of the EA survey from their Enterprise Architecture Services portal . Also
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There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO) that will affect the worldwide Enterprise Architecture (EA) professional community. The union
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I just published a new article on the Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Center entitled, A Pragmatic Approach to Describing Solution Architectures . In this article, we will explore how architectures traditionally have been designed and described. By
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Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Allen Brown , president of the Open Group regarding the latest TOGAF release . Thanks to Allen and his team for taking the time to chat about the new aspects of TOGAF 9 . All the details of this release
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The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be interesting to folks in that area. See below for details: Phil Unger, from the Calgary Enterprise Architecture Forum , is organizing a one-day course focused on
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There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in years. They are launching two other practitioner conferences in conjunction with the architecture practitioner conference.
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As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those decks from the conference or event. Instead of sharing with a select few I thought I would share with everyone. You can find some of the major presentations
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Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF) . I did skim and let me stress that I didn’t do a detailed analysis of the framework. Below is the overview of the framework in their words: PeaF has been
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In a fairly recent whitepaper from IBM, global services did a worldwide survey across various roles to see how difficult it is to change an organizations behavior. The article shows some solid numbers around the friction that exists when trying
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We are less than T-3 weeks to PDC and there will be a lot more details on the new Oslo initiative. Below are some links to where the rich media will be published. Keep an eye out. I think that architects and developers will really like what we are building.
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As for the second day of coverage of the EA summit I attended less sessions and did more talking with other architects at the conference so I will not have a whole lot to say about most of the sessions. I did observe that there was quite the drop-off
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At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution showcase floor regarding an architecture modeling standard called Archimate. I'm not sure if this was due to the fact that this was a European event (ArchiMate
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So I figured since I already started a thread on the Gartner keynote ( Gartner EA Summit - Emergence Enterprise Architecture Keynote ) I should finish what I started, huh? Just so everyone knows, this is Gartner's London EA Summit event and not the North
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I wanted to give some feedback on some new thoughts from Gartner in their keynote on Emergence Architecture. Overall I thought it was a great keynote presented by Brian Burke and Nick Gall. It was somewhat of a different theme then in previous years.
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