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…
Positioning an Enterprise Architect for Success
As I found in our Enterprise Architecture team in Microsoft, each time an Enterprise Architect is assigned to a specific…
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…
How Enterprise Architects can cope with Opportunistic Failure
You may not think that Failure is a desired outcome, and on the surface, there are some negative connotations to…
Using Enterprise Architecture To Get The CIO To The Strategy Table
Recently, Patrick Gray blogged on TechRepublic that IT has a Chicken and Egg problem. In his post, he describes two…
To create a roadmap, we need to know what it is supposed to accomplish
I’ve been involved in a number of meetings recently as our IT teams try to come to consensus on answering…
IT is part of the business, but not for the reasons you think
A colleague of mine, Gabriel Morgan, pointed out a recent Infoworld article by Bob Lewis called “Why running IT as…
Has the concept of “alignment” entered the infamous “trough of disillusionment?”
In the May 15th issue of CIO magazine, there is a rather interesting article, especially for Enterprise Architecture practitioners. The…
Myths of Microsoft Culture
From time to time, I hear interesting anecdotes from colleagues or friends outside Microsoft, telling me a story about what…
What is misalignment?
In order to solve a problem, you have to know the problem you are solving. In a growing number of…