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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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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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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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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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Well, it is February 2nd, and today, the Open Group is announcing the general availability of TOGAF version 9.0 . For those of you not familiar with TOGAF, it is an ambitious and maturing Enterprise Architecture Framework created by the members
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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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I've spent some time of late looking at various EA frameworks. Nothing perfect out there yet, but quite an array of useful things. But what would it take to create a single consistent framework for the IT profession? Let's look at the stuff that's there
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A few weeks ago, in a blog post , I asked about the relationship between business process modeling and business capability modeling. I asked some open ended questions to get honest feedback. I presented two models to illustrate two potential relationships
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Gentle reader: can you help me to solve a debate? Introduction Many companies have adopted the practice of capability modeling in the past few years. Often, this is done to align the portfolio of business initiatives (and often, IT projects) with corporate
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You have probably heard of the Iron Triangle of project management (Cost, Scope, and Time). Did you know that Enterprise Architecture has it's own iron triangle? It does, and understanding the EA triangle is a great way to understand and describe the
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I have a SOA view of the software development lifecycle. And, in that SOA view, BPM fits nicely. First, a comparison: Waterfall looks like this: Waterfall: Plan --> Envision --> Design --> Develop & Test --> Deploy Agile: Plan --> Sprint
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