IBM comes around, agrees with Microsoft on SOA
David Linthicum pointed out this gem from IBM’s Bobby Wolfe that admits, openly, that you cannot buy a product and…
When they are not ready…
Leadership is a funny thing. You cannot lead someone to where they are not ready to go. You have to…
Enterprise Architect: Breadth, Depth, and Interchangable Parts
Alan Inglis has posted a second time about the need for an Enterprise Architect to be oriented more towards breadth…
Leadership vs. Management
It is often said that if you are in a group of explorers hacking through a thick jungle, the manager…
Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback
This is my third post on Feedback loops and EA. At the Gartner EA Summit in the spring, I was…
Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture
I blogged a few days back about agility in EA: Deliver Early, Deliver Often, Take Feedback, Iterate. I’ve said often…
Business Case for Integration, part two
My good friend Harry Pierson took a pass at my ‘business case for integration’ post the other day on his…
Is it time to bring the FEA concepts to the commercial space?
For years, we’ve been living with Zachmann and now TOGAF as commercially available EA frameworks, but honestly, they don’t address…
Agile Enterprise Architecture
One of the things I’ve learned from Agile methods: Deliver Early, Deliver Often, Take Feedback, Iterate. When you do, your…
The Business Case For Integrated Systems
I’ve been looking at the ‘business case for integration.’ How odd does that sound? If I’m going to be able to…