March 2009 - Posts
When you want to find an answer to a problem, it is critical that you ask the right question. This bit of advice is playing out in my life, yet again. Every couple of months, I bump up against one of the core reasons for Enterprise Architecture
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Just a quick note. I ran across this interesting post from Leo de Sousa, an Enterprise Architect in the Higher Education setting, who uses a Capability Maturity Model to help him to measure and drive EA maturity. This is one of the most common ways to
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Ah, the sweet sounds of success. I got the opportunity, this week, to collect a list of requirements for a strategic planning tool that we will license and use within Microsoft IT (COTS). The fact that I got to collect requirements is not
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One thing that I've come to truly appreciate: the balanced scorecard. Don't get me wrong: I've been using scorecards and dashboards for over a decade. I helped to build one at American Express. But I have come to see, from an executive
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Assuming that “Architecture” can be generically defined as “the art and science of designing or constructing something” (adapted from here and here ), then what exactly is Business Architecture? Extending the generalized definition above, a Business Architect
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