Comments for Achieving Business Outcome With Enterprise Architecture

Comment on Enterprise Architect “the” Job Description by Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:15:38 +0000

Great exercise, I’m going to have pass this along to fellow EAs. What suprised me is that alignment or facilitate do not show up.

Comment on Enterprise Architect “the” Job Description by Todd Biske

Todd Biske — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:45:04 +0000

It’s disappointing to see how small “communicate” and “communication” are on this diagram. That’s a critical part of being a successful EA.

Comment on Enterpris architecture practitioners a call to arms by Richard Veryard

Richard Veryard — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:58:30 +0000

Half a year? Consider yourself lucky to get a five day workshop.

In my opinion, Enterprise Architecture is much closer to those practices that Popper dismissed as pseudo-scientific than to those Popper accepted as real sciences, even if Popper’s hard distinction between these two categories doesn’t actually work (as both Lakatos and Feyerabend understood).

I think Feyerabend’s analysis is brilliant, but it apparently leads to the conclusion that everything and nothing counts as science. Feyerabend’s criticism of major scientists such as Darwin can easily be taken out of context, especially by the “Intelligent Design” folk. I prefer Lakatos’s “anarchism in disguise”, because it provides a more subtle and (I think) more powerful framework for constructive criticism of scientific and pseudo-scientific practice.

Comment on A great tale on the true focus of Enterprise Architecture by brendasomich

brendasomich — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:34:58 +0000

Great insight! I wonder if you’d be interested in sharing more with our community. MIKE2.0 is a non-profit, open source community for collaborating on IM topics such as Enterprise Architecture. I think you’d be a great fit. Please check it out when you have a moment- http://www.openmethodology.org

Comment on Microsoft moves in to the field of EA tools by jeff shuey

jeff shuey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:25:02 +0000

I think you are right. Microsoft stuff has been rough around the edges to non-existent in certain aspects of EA design tools. Some of that is changing. However, I hope Microsoft continues to foster the growth of a vibrant partner community.

Thanks for the link to Mike Walker’s slide decks. Mike is a very smart guy and I look forward to perusing the EA slide decks he has created. As an aside – I worked with Mike to try and connect my former company (K2 – workflow) to the Office Business Application (OBA) initiatives. He was very candid and willing to work with partners to create joint solutions. I know Mike “gets it” when it comes to partnering and delivering customer facing solutions.

Comment on Rise of the new Nations by Jörgen Dahlberg

Jörgen Dahlberg — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:24:25 +0000

Another interesting take on this is made by Alan Smith and then it’s not about companies, it’s about you and your values.

http://spacecollective.org/AlanSmith/4027/Nationhood-The-future-of-Nationalism

Comment on Business model of me by Alex Osterwalder

Alex Osterwalder — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:35:04 +0000

Interesting perspective on applying my work to You and the connection with Zachman’s framework. All the best for 2009, AO

Comment on Outsourcing your Enterprise architecture practice by Jörgen Dahlberg

Jörgen Dahlberg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:25:10 +0000

I did not intend it to come out so software centric, my personal view of EA is verry much in common with the description you give in your comment. However most organisations today use management and leadership consultants to build or at least initiate any change initiative.

Comment on Outsourcing your Enterprise architecture practice by Sailesh Panchal

Sailesh Panchal — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:14:30 +0000

This is a very narrow view of EA, which is rather software centric. EA does play a vital role in bringing business and IT together without being in either camp. Outsourcing of EA has been done by using the big 4/5 consultancies who help business/IT plan the way forward. EA documenting the information of architecture current and future is barely 20% of its value. It must use this information as a leadership tool within an organisation to lead it. You cannot outsource that!

Comment on Infosys presents their enterprise architecture survey 2008 by Outsourcing your Enterprise architecture practice « Move the future

Outsourcing your Enterprise architecture practice « Move the future — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:46:08 +0000

[...] now that we have the role issue behind us we can get into what this post is all about. I wrote a post the other day about the Infosys yearly EA survey and in that post I commented one of the findings [...]