April 2004 - Posts

• What is enterprise governance anyway?

  I have mentioned in prior blogs my belief that an enterprise architecture is comprised of 3 intertwined components; standards, governance, and a repository of binaries. I will address standards and binaries later. For now, I will focus on the concrete Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:55 PM by Stcohen | 4 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Should an application architecture be forced to comply with the enterprise? I think not.

  Most of us can agree that there is always more than one way to achieve a given piece of functionality. Consider getting a phone number for a person from a Sql database. You can connect with integrated security, or pass in the username & password, Read More... Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:41 PM by Stcohen | 6 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• The life of a “living (enterprise architecture) document”

  A common phrase used to describe an enterprise architecture is a set of “living documents”. I like it. Short, simple, easy to understand … a living document. Of course there is a dangerously complex implication lying just below the veneer Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:20 AM by Stcohen | 2 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Don’t follow the money, lead with it.

  Enterprise architects are the one star generals of their business. They have some authority. Usually less than their subordinates believe they have, and more than their superiors and peers want them to have. Ultimately, it comes down to the individual Read More... Posted Sunday, April 11, 2004 8:05 PM by Stcohen | 8 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Choose carefully when representing the enterprise

  Just as the selection of materials has a substantive impact on the form and function of a structure, the concrete choices made by an enterprise have undeniable impacts on the form and function of the enterprise architecture. Creating products without Read More... Posted Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:10 AM by Stcohen | 4 Comments Filed under: Architecture

• Does your enterprise architecture add up?

  So you have an enterprise architecture ... How well does it work? Here is a quick test, a mere 5 questions, intended to help evaluate it. But first a few rules; This is only applicable to DEPLOYED architectures. Generally, deployed means stable and used Read More... Posted Monday, April 05, 2004 9:45 PM by Stcohen | 1 Comments Filed under: Architecture, MSF