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One thing that any new Enterprise Architect realizes, on or around their first day of work, is that there are not very many other Enterprise Architects in their organization. It is easy to look around and discover that you are the one and only Enterprise
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Many of the folks on my Architecture blog roll have been inactive, so I've dropped them. There are other, newer blogs that may deserve attention. If you know of a blog or wiki that covers Architectural issues, and you find it valuable, please send me
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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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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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Content comes from many places, including news sites, media companies, and individual contributors. In fact, as the Web 2.0 era becomes 'mainstream,' it is becoming common to see sites like MSNBC.com where a news story has room for responses, or CNN.Com
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One thing we sometimes forget to do... make time to make relationships. It is good when we do it right. Large organizations are curious things. Some folks like to think of a company as something akin to an organism, with a heart and lungs and nervous
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I work deep in the heart of Microsoft, and I make no secret of it: I like open source. I won't start some great debate about OSS, or the traditional opposition of my employer to OSS. I support my company, and I want the stock price to go up, but I do
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I'd like to draw a distinction that I should have drawn before. I had an interesting discussion in e-mail after my previous blog post on EA and Customer 2.0. I suggested that Kai, our persona for Customer 2.0, learned how to write code and develop mashups
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Aaron Hanks gets credit for coining this term. Ever heard the old saw that says that software reflects the organizational structure of the team that writes it? That begs the question: which came first? The Architecture of the app (to which the organization
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How can we leverage the power, and draw, of massive multiplayer online game experiences to build a shared vision of architecture for an enterprise? I'm not in to multiplayer online games. I have a lot on my mind between being a dad and being supportive
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Todd Biske asks a good question about corporate blogging : how do you build sufficient trust to allow for corporate blogging? It's a good read. Working for a technology company that is very large allows me a level of freedom not seen by my typical peer.
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A collegue reminded me of one of my favorite "architecture" sayings yesterday, which I had on my door for a couple of years: All models are wrong. Some models are useful The point is that we don't create a model to be an exact replica of reality. We create
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