Does anonymity promote ill-informed consensus?
There are a spate of new Social Media apps that have emerged lately, all of which allow people to post…
Ten Ways to Kill An Enterprise Architecture Practice
Have you seen practices that you know could kill an Enterprise Architecture practice? I have. A recent LinkedIn thread asked…
Has in-person communication become the unwilling victim of technology?
In Enterprise Architecture, one of the most important aspects of the job is not only to communicate, but to lead…
Podcast on the Enterprise Architecture profession–Interview with CIPS’s Stephen Ibaraki
Way back in April, I announced the first of two podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing Society. I just realized…
Speaking at TechEd New Zealand on Business Architecture
Haven’t been to New Zealand yet, but I will be there soon… From September 4 through 7 in Auckland, for…
Conversational Antipatterns on Message Boards
Architects argue. I have, over the past year, spent a good bit of time on LinkedIn Message boards. I’ve watched…
EA Certifications Distilled
Mike Walker, one of my colleagues here at Microsoft, has done an excellent job of distilling various options for EA…
On the road to a Business Architecture Manifesto
One very powerful metaphor that has reverberated throughout the technical community, in the past few years, was the Agile Manifesto. …
Podcasts with the Canadian Information Processing Society
I was honored, recently, when the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) decided to interview me on the topics of Enterprise…
Wikipedia’s EA article, second pass
After a rather protracted discussion on LinkedIn about the Wikipedia article on Enterprise Architecture (blogged here), I took another swing…