Bimodal EA – A New Model for EA If there is one thing I have been able to glean from the class this semester is that the landscape of EA is rapidly changing. In the text this semester Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, the EA drives an operational persona that works well to manage complexities of large waterfall organizations. These…
Zachman Framework Arguably the Zachman framework is the cornerstone for enterprise architecture. The framework, taxonomy is a great way to bucketize the things that matter to a business. On the other hand some of the Framework’s criticisms are centered that it is not really a framework. it is in fact only a taxonomy. This is due to…
Cloud Based Infrastructure and the Future of EA Cloud computing is turning the IT world upside down and especially for areas like Enterprise Architecture who seeks to provide value from the knowledge base of seasoned professionals. The practice itself is threatened, not so much by traditional structures of communication and governance but by a lack of agility within the practice….
Business Reference Model Business architecture is a fairly budding new area within the architecture job family. In the past decade the practice of business architecture is one than has found a place into most practices, but when analyzed in more depth, we find that the focus and boundaries of the each practice differed greatly. this was the impetus for…
Federated Governance This is a hot topic amongst my colleagues. Federated governance take many different forms and the question remains, how much is enough to maintain the value of Enterprise Architecture? The landscape in a federated world is affected by the maturity of the Architecture practice within the Corporation. This is true of both centralized and federated corporations, however…
Capability Analysis Enterprise architecture has a major function of developing artifacts on current and future state. The TOGAF ADM describes artifacts like target architectures, reference architectures and domain architectures. In my experience as an Enterprise Architect, we attempted a new way of looking at the domains that we supported, namely Capability target architectures. These were targets that absolved…
I wanted to dive into the maturity models and attempt to identify some of the challenges inherent around the changing landscape of IT and EA. These disruptive shifts in the way assets are built, acquired and managed within the organization are becoming a challenge to the organization to successfully implement. Namely these shifts are DevOps, Cloud and Agile (referred to…
Enterprise Architecture – Adapt to survive or its all just a history lesson! This week I was lookin through Forrester and stumbled upon some interesting articles relating to trends with project management (agile), the shift to cloud and digital, convergence of IT and. Th and what this means for Enterprise Architecture. This is highly relevant to the company…
Enterprise Architecture Federation EA programs tend to be centralized or at least start out that way. Companies that develop programs using a framework for guidance tend to gravitate towards one of three. They either use Zachman, TOGAF or FEAF . As a company’s architecture practice matures, so does the mix of frameworks, methodologies and processes. This can be…
In a world where artificial intelligence is moving from buzzword to everyday capability, the most compelling projects are those built around AI from the ground up. Imagine a boat whose design, operation, and strategy are guided by AI at every layer—not as a single feature, but as the operating principle. This post explores how you would approach building such…
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