EA effectiveness
EA Rediscovered – The Future State
One of the fundamental concepts in enterprise architecture is the creation of a Future State that holistically embodies directional guidance for decision-making. The concept is often mis-understood and seems to have recently been lost in the noisy sea of conversations about models, frameworks, digital transformation, bimodal, driving short term results, and other methodology discussions. In this podcast … Read more
EA and the Internet of Things – 10 Thoughts
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the Internet of Things, from both a personal perspective and as it applies to EA. In fact, I wrote about it in my “From the Editor” column in the most recent Architecture and Governance magazine (v12n2): I once thought consumer-oriented “Internet of Things” (IoT) device were novelties. The … Read more
Lack of Enterprise View a Hindrance? Good Solution Architecture is Not Enough
We are consistently being exposed to ENTERPRISE architecture teams without an enterprise perspective in the deliverables and activities in which they are engaged. Sometimes this is due to a cyclical shift in the priorities between defining enterprise architecture and applying enterprise architecture via solution architecture. This is a normal, healthy shift that we see happening in maturing EA … Read more
A Question for Practicing EAs
Why are you doing enterprise architecture? If you don’t know the answer to this, how can you expect others to understand EA? This is a simple question, but we are looking for comments from your readers to help others (without their answer) come up with the answer that meets their situation. While everyone probably has … Read more