April 2009 - Posts
In many ways, the task of creating a complete roadmap for the evolution of an enterprise architecture is similar to the task of creating an optimum path to solving rubik’s cube. With rubik’s cube, the number of total possible combinations of faces
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The dark cloud of the economic downturn has produced a silver lining within Microsoft IT: an increased emphasis on Agile development techniques. This does not mean that MS IT is new to using Agile. Far from it. Agile development practices
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Today marks the end of a long dry spell. As of today, I’m back in print with an article in the Architecture Journal called “ Towards an Enterprise Business Motivation Model .” Of interest to Business Architects, Strategists, Business Planners, and
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In tough economic times, we tend to look for ways to cut costs and reduce overhead, so that we can “do more with less.” In our team, we’ve stumbled upon one such way that I’d like to share. One of the responsibilities that tend to fall to Enterprise
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A friend was kind enough to remind me, this morning, that Archimate is still kicking around and making noises. In fact, for a modeling language that’s been in quiet development for many years, Archimate having something of a rebirth as it is now part
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As we look to using tools for Strategic Planning in IT, I am constantly reminded of the fact that many business people don’t know what Strategic planning is, or why anyone should bother doing it. This is not a Microsoft thing. As I read the reports from
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