by Philip Allega | October 14, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s Symposium season. We actually began in South Africa at the end of August and in Brazil in September. We continue this coming Sunday-Thursday in Orlando and then Cannes, France, Japan and Sydney, Australia, to conclude this years largest gathering of CIOs and IT leaders in the world. For me, and my colleagues in enterprise [...]
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by Philip Allega | October 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Enterprise architects use metadata repositories to indicate the enterprise state of the items stored within. Gartner’s IT Market Clock plots the current state and predicted lifecycle of IT products or services within a marketplace. Enterprise architects will benefit from communicating the lifecycle positioning on internally held assets versus the marketplace perspective, as well as be [...]
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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.
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by Philip Allega | August 20, 2010 | 7 Comments
Recently, I was asked to help a friend out. The conversation began with a grand vision of where this person saw himself in a year’s time. I was excited by the vision and we discussed what it would feel like once he was there, what he would with his time, his money, and how wonderful [...]
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by Philip Allega | August 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
Today, 13 August, is International Left Handers Day. According to Wikipedia, 7-10% of the population are left handed, linkshander, sinistra, linkerhanden, vanster, bal, izquierda. I, too, am left-handed. As many who know, I am in my right mind and those who are right handed are dominated by the left side of their brain (note: other [...]
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