September 2008 - Posts
I have an open question. I'd love to get community feedback. A process can be decomposed into activities. Who performs the activities? Are activities performed by roles with actors assigned to those roles, or are activities performed by actors in roles?
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I love wiki technology. I'm an editor on Wikipedia and I enjoy contributing to community-based content. The idea that individuals can contribute what they know to the rest of the world, and have it accepted at face value, is tremendous. It is also a bit
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[I tore down this article.]
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Not long ago, I got an e-mail from someone I had not met, directed from this blog. He had used the diagram I had presented in a prior post ( One EA Team, Three EA Functions ) to convince his CIO that their company needed Enterprise Architecture. Direct
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Metadata is a difficult word to define, or so it would appear. After all, why is it that the best that Wikipedia can do is: Metadata ( meta data , or sometimes metainformation ) is "data about data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe
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It is typical to see comparisons of Civil Engineering to Enterprise Architecture. A number of papers from Gartner have made the comparison, as have many articles and conference discussions. I have made the comparison myself. It is a somewhat
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Kudos to Andrea Westernien on her blog about the disjoint between the work that people do and business process automation . Andrea, who blogs under the title of 'Policy Based Business blog,' used eloquent words to capture what I was originally trying
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A friend and colleague, J.D. Meyer, asked me to consider this question, and I have to admit that it's a bit of a tough question: What do .Net Solution Architects need to know? (If you have an opinion, please go here ). Why so tough? For me,
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I always learn more from failure than from success. In that spirit, I'll share a (small) failure with you. In my last post ( Working in the dark ), I mentioned that I would be discussing the metamodel [domain model] underlying all the things we do in
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