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Enterprise Architecture has a role to play in both developing a vision of the future, and in providing governance and oversight to make sure that the organization can measure its progress towards that future. The governance part is tricky. Architectural
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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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The single hardest thing to get a person to do, is think. If you can get a person to think, the next most difficult thing to get them to do is change. Therefore, if you want people to change, don’t ask them to think. My father used to tell me, “You have
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“Waiter, Waiter!” The customer sat in the corner of the busy cafe, with a seaming bowl of soup, frantically waving to the retreating waiter who had just set the bowl down and hurried away. Frustrated, he turned, but did not advance. “What is it,
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Recently, Tim Westbrock asked, in his blog , if we should drop the term “Enterprise Architecture” when referring to the strategic business planning perspective within the EA role. “The question that I will leave you all with is this: Can EA
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I had the opportunity recently to review an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on strategy development, and consider the notion of a business motivation model with respect to how a strategy is constructed. (“Can you say what your strategy
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For most of the last decade, we’ve seen a steady growth in the use of a simple “recommended practice” in the world of software architecture. Well known by it’s designation, IEEE-1471 is officially titled “ Recommended Practice for Architectural
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About a month back, I asked if it was time to create an MBA in Business Architecture . I’m going to follow up with a suggestion for a curriculum for such an odd degree. The degree is provocative on its face. After all, an MBA is first and foremost, a
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On a blog post titled “ what good looks like ,” Alan Inglis detailed a list of “project architectectural artifacts” that he wishes that previous architects would leave behind when a project is completed. In his list, Alan details 10 artifacts (actually
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I'm a process guy. I'm not a big fan of the claims of process management software, but I'm a huge fan of developing and using process models to organize the activities of people, and then to drive the requirements for software from those models. So when
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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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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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