Thursday evening, April 7, marks the inaugural event for the new IASA Chicago Chapter. The meeting will be from 6:00pm-7:30pm at Illinois Technology Association (ITA), 200 S. Wacker, 15th Floor, Chicago. The new chapter provides a networking and educational forum for IT and Enterprise Architects from across the Chicago area. I will be leading a session on “Changing … Read more
I had the opportunity last week to moderate two panels at the Troux Worldwide Conference. The first panel included EAdirections’ Tim Westbrock along with Mike Walker from Microsoft, Aleks Buterman from SenseAgility and Paul Preiss from IASA. The theme of the panel was a general discussion on characteristics of top-performing EA Teams. To begin the conversation, I asked each panelist to … Read more
In a keynote presentation at the upcoming IASA ITARC Denver Event I will be discussing the leadership challenges that many current and aspiring IT leaders face in their organizations, and how they can overcome those challenges by applying selected enterprise architecture concepts to their decision-making framework. Not surprisingly, I advocate moving EA “upstream” within the management structure and … Read more
Most organizations that claim to have an “enterprise” architecture practice are really only doing “IT” architecture (ITA). What leads us to say that? Our research shows that most organizations have limited their scope to include only IT elements like infrastructure, data and applications. That’s OK in and of itself and it is a step up for many organizations, but that’s not EA.
“Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an immature discipline and possibly getting even more immature. As the scope of EA extends beyond the areas that IT-centric efforts are prepared for (data, app, infrastructure), the competency, credibility and effectiveness of an EA team may decrease. However, there are a variety of ways to increase these characteristics for EA … Read more
“Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an immature discipline and possibly getting even more immature. As the scope of EA extends beyond the areas that IT-centric efforts are prepared for (data, app, infrastructure), the competency, credibility and effectiveness of an EA team may decrease. However, there are a variety of ways to increase these characteristics for EA … Read more
Over the last several months we have seen a measurable increase in companies recruiting Enterprise Architects and Chief Enterprise Architects. It indicates that senior leadership understands and appeciates the distinction between enterprise architects and other architects, that they want what EA does, and that they can justify and attach expected value to having individuals in the EA role.