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Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Understanding your enterprise architect
1. Establish clear goals and expectations before day one.
2. Introduce the EA to the key players at a single meeting, no later than day two.
3. Run blocker for your EA.
4. Don't expect your EA to drive the business.
5. Your EA is not just the über-tech-geek.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Understanding Your Enterprise Architect: A Guide for Managers
1. Establish clear goals and expectations before day one.
2. Introduce the EA to the key players at a single meeting, no later than day two.
3. Run blocker for your EA.
4. Don't expect your EA to drive the business.
5. Your EA is not just the über-tech-geek.
For the rest of his article, click here.
Monday, February 2, 2009
SOA needs supporting architecture
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Seven rules of business alignment
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Alignment among all parties involved in business change is the issue: the business consists of multiple parties that need to be aligned; IT is just one of these parties.
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The starting point for alignment is communication.
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Enterprise architecture is a vehicle for facilitating alignment. It provides an information base that shows us where we are and allows us to assess potential futures.
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Enterprise architecture as an approach has a part to play in business strategy, business change, and its traditional home in IT.
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Enterprise architecture provides tools to understand, plan, and govern change, but for effective delivery, it must be integrated with program management.
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The information, stakeholders, and processes used to manage alignment through enterprise architecture are different but related for business strategy, business change, and IT. The change management organization must draw on people from across the organization at all levels.
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While alignment must be driven from "the business," the business side may not always be best equipped to do this. If this is the case, it may need support in the form of "business architecture as a service."
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Evolution of Video Game Business Models
With free-to-play and open source the norm for video game software, where are these business models headed? We'd like to hear your thoughts.
Monday, January 26, 2009
SOA is Not Dead
Friday, January 23, 2009
EA: The ability to manage change
They look at how employees roles can be defined:
* Role accountability matrix: Showing where each person is responsible, accountable, consulted or informed. Such an approach allows management to determine ideal staffing levels with 100% precision. This aligns departmental and divisional staffing requirements with budgets, allowing absolute precision and accountability.
* Deriving and associating all supporting documents electronically and automatically with the person’s role, including job description, performance appraisal and performance against balanced scorecard.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
CIO: The Case Against Cloud Computing
It seems that everyone's jumping on the bandwagon for cloud computing--but not just yet. CIO has come out with their case against this movement. According to CIO, they see that there are 5 impediments to cloud computing, and they are:
Current enterprise apps can't be migrated conveniently
Risk: Legal, regulatory, and business
Difficulty of managing cloud applications
Lack of SLA
Lack of cost advantage for cloud computing
What do you think? We're very interested to see what CIO has to say in their subsequent posts. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
2009 Focus for EA
Friday, January 16, 2009
Take our Poll: Is SOA dead?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Metastorm ProVision Used by Delta
"Start modeling your environment and showing the impact of conflicting strategies before you’re engaged officially, using whatever published documentation you can. Once you gain the support of your most visible leaders, brag, brag, brag. Others will soon want to be on that same bandwagon of success, able to effectively plan and execute any strategy.”
What do you think of this quote? Do you see your company moving forward with EA technologies?
Monday, January 12, 2009
Worst practices of Enterprise Architects
1. Instead of focusing on perception management, concentrate on becoming a skilled negotiator. We need to strike balance between technical complexity and business needs. Don't just change perception, focus on reality.
2. Spread the wealth. Enterprise architects who are the single source of knowledge on a given topic within an enterprise is dangerous. We all need to plan for when we all get thrown under the bus and the best way to do this is to make all decisions transparent and all communications open.
3. Governance is not about financial controls but is all about a behavior model. Command and control doesn't work, neither does design by committee. Remember that the best architectures are realized by self-organizing teams.
4. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Enterprise architecture is not about posturing and hand waving. It is important to understand your limitations and ask for help when you don't have a clue.
5. Think like a developer. Way too many architects throw daggers at developers, yet we haven't thought about what it is like to walk in their shoes. By using minimalist architecture approaches such as keeping things simple, you increase the odds that the code will be as high quality as the architecture.
For the complete list, click here. Were there any practices you noticed missing from the list?
Friday, January 9, 2009
Will you pay for open source in 2009?
What are your thoughts?
Free versus paid offers to completely different business models and it will be interesting to see how each hold up in the upcoming year.
Share with us your comments here or on LinkedIn.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Is there universal definition for EA? Chris Potts from CIO.com recently answered this question found on LinkedIn in this post. Here’s the question:
Do you think we need to have a universally agreed definition of
Chris states that there is really no agreed definition of EA, but it is very important to understand what business executives think the two component words mean. Many people mistakenly believe that the term “
"The art or science of designing and constructing undertakings, especially bold or difficult ones, and of the readiness to be involved in them; the style of such undertakings."
What’s your definition of EA?