Why don’t EA tools actually help EA?
I’ve worked with a couple of EA vendors over the years and I’ve noticed that most of the tool vendors…
Enterprise Architects should consider IT value streams
Businesses are increasingly looking for IT to be more efficient and to add significant value. In order to achieve this…
Sharing the Solution Domain Taxonomy
Sometimes, Enterprise Architecture efforts fail. This is no surprise to folks in the EA business. This failure occurred slowly, back…
How brand-thinking can kill you, and capability thinking can save you
I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that business strategy work is often about constrained thinking. Thinking “inside the box” is…
Moving Towards a Theory of Enterprise Architecture
I’ve been asked a number of times over the years if I can explain the theory of Enterprise Architecture. I…
Do you perform Information Architecture or a Data Architecture?
So, full disclosure, I care about Wikipedia. Call me dumb, I know. Wikipedia has been described, alternatively, as the best…
The Architecture Manager – the Forgotten Enterprise Architecture Role
I’ve met many Architecture Managers over the years. Sometimes they go by the title of “Chief Enterprise Architect” or “Chief…
When does EA start to care about sociocultural influences?
Organizations do not work, in real life, like they work on paper. On paper, there are departments (all shaped like…
Being Forgotten in the Internet of Things
We all know that Google lost a landmark legal case recently. As of now, a citizen of Europe has the…
EA Debt
(Note: I’ve added an addendum to this post) It has been many years that we have lived with the concept…