Bruce Robertson

I’m presenting at two upcoming Gartner EA Summit events in London (Sept 14-15) and Orlando (Oct 7-9) on the topic of “Architecting for Emergence: New EA Models Embracing Change.”  I’ll also be describing case studies for Emergent or Middle-Out EA approaches in separate presentations.

Gartner’s EA team has been discussing emergent or middle-out EA approaches (we’ve even [...]

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Found this post while lurking a #EA twitter search: ARCHITECTS ARE GOING GREEN (Cute pic, btw.)
Are architects going green?  IT is trying, but I don’t really hear many EA clients I talk to bringing this up.  There are certainly things to do, and green can mean lower cost as well as sustainable.  So, why no [...]

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Yet again, my colleage Lydia Leong has mentioned something that reminded me of something in EA.  In her “A hodgepodge of links” blog entry, she mentioned enjoying Malcolm Gladwell’s “Priced to Sell: Is free the future?” retort in the New Yorker to Chris Anderson’s thesis in his book Free — that information will be free. [...]

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Defining EA as a set of services are a new way to describe what EA does and what the outcome or result or deliverable of EA activity will be.  Using the service term certainly gets a useful clarifying discussion going about who the consumer and provider are, and what is provided by the provider to [...]

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While Google’s App Engine is basically free for users (up to quota limits), it has significant constraints in development languages supported (Python and soon Java) and indeed requires writing code.  Amazon Web Services do not require specific languages and can even run existing applications (there are limitations of course).  But, you have to pay.
Until now. [...]

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One goal, but I hope never the only goal, of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to help understand and manage and indeed improve the value of IT spend.  Many techniques are employed, including tying EA strategic requirements to project portfolio decision making, planning lower cost alternatives, and many others.  
However, one technique that is now visible [...]

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I’m now blogging on the Gartner Blog Network (GBN).  Everyone else blogging at Gartner is here too.
To get started, I suppose it’s good to set a few goals for my efforts.  Among the things I’d really like to do are these:

Link to interesting EA content available online — to help those who don’t look around [...]

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