Most of the time principles is viewed as the highest form of governance. From random principles to actual governance entities there is sometimes a long road to travel. I use various templates to ease the pain of crafting the principles such that they can be considered expertly constructed, expressed in the finest of language and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Model’
An extended principles template
Posted in Enterprise architecture, tagged business, ea, Enterprise architecture, Governance, Model, principles, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-27 | Leave a Comment »
Iteration #6 of a new Business Model for MTB Stage Races
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged BMC, BMGEN, business, Canvas, Checklist, Enterprise architecture, Model, Sponsoring, strategy, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-25 | Leave a Comment »
The Sponsoring checklist As you get into it you need some help. Help can come in many forms, mostly what is required is network, money and knowledge. To get that you try to secure the support of sponsors in the form of investors. To ease the communication with the different types of sponsors a basic [...]
Enabling the BMC with the power of Q
Posted in Enterprise architecture, Open for business, tagged BMC, BMGEN, business, Canvas, Enterprise architecture, Model, strategy, The Happy People Business, Tool on 2011-06-21 | Leave a Comment »
I threw the basic grid below together as a tool to reason and visualize about how developers, analysts and architects generally use the BMC. My suspicion was that most users of the BMC scatter their efforts across the grid with an emphasis on “Enable”. If that would prove to be the case then there is [...]
Enterprise Architecture and LEGO
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, tagged ea, Enterprise architecture, Illustration, lego, Model, Tool on 2011-04-28 | Leave a Comment »
When you do illustrations of enterprise architecture using Lego there are a couple of rules of thumb that may make the whole experience and the end result more pleasurable. draw a sketch of the design where you focus on capturing the essence of the architecture. use the LEGO Digital Designer to model the design. remember [...]
Reflections on the missing location in Archimate
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, tagged Concepts, Enterprise architecture, Location, Model on 2011-03-14 | 2 Comments »
Not having a concept for “Location” that stands on its own when creating these EA models will almost certainly create opportunity for misunderstanding. A “usable” Location in any blueprint must always be an instance of the pure logical Location Concept. An instance of a Location as used in an Enterprise context generally carry attributes of [...]
A visual meme on evolving EA
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, SOA, tagged business, COA, DOA, ea, Enterprise architecture, EOA, Evolving, FOA, Maturity, Model, OOA, SOA, Value, visual meme, VOA on 2009-06-01 | Leave a Comment »
EOA = Ecology Oriented Architecture OOA = Outcome Oriented Architecture (Managed Level) VOA = Value Oriented Architecture SOA = Service Oriented Architecture COA = Component Oriented Architecture OOA = Object Oriented Architecture (Initial/Repeatable Level) FOA = Functions Oriented Architecture DOA = Data Oriented Architecture
Using models for reasoning about the E in EA
Posted in Avenues of thought to explore, Enterprise architecture, Open for business, SOA, tagged Enterprise architecture, Gartner, Model, reason, strategy, Togaf on 2007-11-13 | Leave a Comment »
For years I’ve been fascinated by the usage of EA as a means to document and structure all aspects of an enterprise. There are many good sources of information out there today that will show you how to do that. But what about reasoning about the enterprise, what models exists to do that. I’ve put [...]
