Understanding Your Enterprise Architect: A Guide for Managers

If you're a manager of an Enterprise Architect or if your manager could use a little push in the right direction, JP Morgenthal's piece in CIO offers some tips to keep the peace and the productivity flowing.

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.

Metastorm ProVision Used by Delta

Delta's IT professionals have adopted Metastorm ProVision for all of their Enterprise Architecture needs. An article at ITworld.com goes into the specific processes behind Delta's decision to go with Metastorm ProVision. A statement by a Delta professional properly relayed the reasoning behind going with something new and different with EA,

"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?

Top Tech Resolutions of 2009

Moving forward in 2009, its time to work better with less. Infoworld.com stripped 2009 down to the bare essential goals that all companies should aim for this year. Among them, get out of old IT dogma and archaic thinking. This business climate will leave old thinkers in the dust. Don't settle for less just because you have to work with less. Think future think progress. Definitely read their resolutions and add a few of your own.