by Philip Allega | October 28, 2010 | 8 Comments
I think that the push for considering an alternative means to engage in EA is, indeed, already underway. In organizations who treat “people as strategy” (e.g., SEMCO, Whole Foods, HCL, Topcoder), wherein people are give broad self-directed control of creating and executing strategy in real time, the notion that one will “translate business vision [...]
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by Philip Allega | October 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
In Gartner’s recent report, IT Metrics: Office of the CIO Staffing Report, 2010 , we noted that: The top-ranked function employed or implemented within the OCIO (Office of the CIO) is enterprise architecture, with 76% of respondents reporting a full-time equivalent (FTE) response to this role So, why so much angst over whether EA is “dead”? [...]
Category: Enterprise Architect Enterprise Architecture Office of the CIO Tags: EA Reporting Relationships, EA Value, OCIO, Office of the CIO
by Philip Allega | September 1, 2010 | 15 Comments
Typically, the world of EA is boring. In this last few weeks, all bets are off as John Zachman goes to court and questions are raised about the near term and long term effects to the commercialization of EA Frameworks and the EA certification marketplace. It’s still early days, but challenges from the “father of EA” require consideration.
Category: Enterprise Architect John Zachman Uncategorized Tags: EA, Enterprise Architecture, Stan Locke, Zachman
by Philip Allega | August 30, 2010 | 11 Comments
A common misperception being hyped in EA circles concerns the notion that business architecture is something different from enterprise architecture. This is a blatant attempt to classify EA as something only applicable to IT when, in fact, EA is applicable to the ENTERPRISE that covers numerous viewpoints for stakeholders, including business, information, technology and solution [...]
Category: Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Tags: Business Architecture, Business Context, Enterprise Architecture
by Philip Allega | August 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
Sometimes it’s a just a little mental slip, but many times is purposeful obfuscation on the part of the person speaking. And, there’s only one reason to do such a terrible thing, that’s because the person speaking isn’t certain about what they’re talking about. The crowd-sourced definition of “architecture” on wikipedia gives a nod towards [...]
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by Philip Allega | August 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
Leo de Sousa shared a blog that covered his experience of doing the current state first, supporting Adrian Grigoriu’s response to my posting last week entitled Applying EA to Your Life . I do, in fact, support the contention that current state is an “input to gap analysis” and is “useful for benchmarking”, but I would [...]
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by Philip Allega | August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
I took a tour of The Pearl Brewery last week, led by REAL ARCHITECTS. Although I’m not associated with such building architects normally, I was pleased to see how ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE is applicable in the work associated with the development of this former brewery, originally built in 1883, as it transforms itself it 1.2 million square feet [...]
Category: Enterprise Architect Enterprise Architecture Tags: Enterprise Architecture
by Philip Allega | August 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
Private complaints, sent outside of public social networking messages, to me have state that only “real enterprise architects” should be free to comment on issues pertinent to EA.
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by Philip Allega | August 17, 2010 | 8 Comments
A lot of buzz at the end of last week of the IT vs. Biz camps in the world of EA. And, it was a buzz-killer. I, however, am ready to look forward and am not thinking about calling the undertaker. Here’s a blog that consolidates a lot of the heated discussion online: http://enterprisearchitecture.ulitzer.com/node/1385669 This [...]
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by Philip Allega | August 16, 2010 | 4 Comments
There are a lot of smart people in the world of Enterprise Architecture evangelizing a position or attempting to influence others that their view is correct. At Gartner, I find lots of smart people providing advice based upon facts, plus a zeal for understanding what works, what doesn’t and what’s going to happen next. Not [...]
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