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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Green Architects?
by Bruce Robertson | July 10, 2009 | 10 Comments
Architecting “free” — Gladwell v Anderson et. al.
by Bruce Robertson | July 9, 2009 | 12 Comments
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. [...]
Capacity Planning Equals Budget Planning
by Bruce Robertson | July 3, 2009 | 10 Comments
To quote from my Gartner colleague Lydia Leong’s recent post on cloud computing: “Capacity planning equals budget planning, so it’s rarely an, “eh, because we can scale quickly, it doesn’t matter.” I read this three times before it sunk in. Capacity = budget? Yes! We’ve often in our Gartner EA practice discussed that EA should [...]
Category: EA IT Governance Strategic Planning Tags: cloud computing, EA
A Clear Trend for Trends
by Bruce Robertson | May 8, 2009 | 10 Comments
Lately, news in my feed reader (Google), people/entities I follow on Twitter (Twitterfon), and even good old paper newspapers (NY Times, Washington Post) seem to be doing more with trends. You can get trends on Twitter search terms (http://www.twitscoop.com/), trends on searches on Google (http://www.google.com/trends), even trends on American Idol futures. Gartner’s own web site [...]
Category: EA Strategic Planning Tags: EA, metrics, value
Show Me The Money! Using EA to Structure Spend (US Federal VUE-IT)
by Bruce Robertson | April 24, 2009 | 110 Comments
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 [...]
Category: EA Tags: EA, EA, EA Example, FEA, Federal Enterprise Architecture, OMB-300, VUE-IT
One more voice blogging in the EA wilderness
by Bruce Robertson | April 21, 2009 | 10 Comments
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 [...]
