A great tale about man and methodology

The Great Master Lea was sitting on his mountain top basking in the sun. Earlier this morning a young man and an old woman had come before him to ask a question. This is what they asked: “Oh great master Lea, which EA methodology should we use?” The great master Lea looked at the man [...]

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Business model of me

2009 is gaining ground on me and it has become time to sit down and deal with this “me” thing again. This time I’ve used the methodology of Osterwalder to map out my personal business model. To get it in a slightly more architectural flavour, I have used the Zachman enterprise framework to sort out the  primitives and [...]

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What do I do?

I’ve been pondering this simple question “what do I do?”. Not the simple what do I do question, but the really hard what do I do with a super capital “I“. It’s so easy to throw out something saying I’m an enterprise architect, or I work in IT and information architecture or I map processes [...]

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What if? Would you buy in to it?

I’ve been actively pursuing what I’d like to see in an offering related to the practice of enterprise architecture. Below is a fictive offering made to the community and all other stakeholders in EA, about a great service that would cater to most of the common needs.

What if I exposed a service to you [...]

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The social graph of the EA world

I came across a piece of software that allows you to map out relations between search results from Google and Amazon. So I decided to map out the prominent terms of the enterprise architecture field, namely “enterprise architecture”, “method”, “framework”, “tool” and “Books”.
I’ll leave it up to you to draw any conclusions from these maps.

Map [...]

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