A visual meme on explicit usage of EA

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A visual meme on evolving EA

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

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A great tale about quality

The Great Master Lea was sitting on his mountain top basking in the sun. Earlier this morning a middle aged sea turtle and an old woman had come before him to ask a question. This is what they asked: “Oh great master Lea, how can we be certain that we have quality in our work?” [...]

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A great tale about acting lean

The Great Master Lea was sitting on his mountain top basking in the sun. Earlier this morning an old monkey and a young woman had come before him to ask a question. This is what they asked: “Oh great master Lea, how do we know if we are lean or not?” The great master Lea [...]

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A great tale about being on the true path

The Great Master Lea was sitting on his mountain top basking in the sun. Earlier this morning an old man and a young woman had come before him to ask a question. This is what they asked: “Oh great master Lea, how do we know if we are on the true path to becoming service [...]

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The Open Group Releases a SOA Book

 The Open Group’s SOA Source Book is a collection of source material for use by enterprise architects working with Service-Oriented Architecture.
Read more at: http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa-book/

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EA World – A magazine I’d love to read

I’ve been thinking about the articles I’d like to read if there where an Enterprise architecture magazine on the stands. Maybe this will inspire some to write some good articles, maybe it will inspire me to write a post or two. Whatever, here is the outline as I envision it.
Section: Editors dialogue
In this section the chief [...]

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Why do you upgrade your mistakes

In an article in Computer Sweden today, Ivar Jacobson the father of use-case wrote about being smart. In conclusion he wrote that “you don’t have to repeat the mistakes of others”.
I gave it some thought and of course you should try not to repeat the mistakes of others, but inevitably you’ll make some mistakes that [...]

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The art of architecture

This is just to announce the first in a collection of snippets that I’ll post. All of the snippets will be posted under the same title “The art of architecture #”, they will all be used in a book project about the art of architecture in the enterprise arena.
If you feel like contributing to this [...]

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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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