Has Enterprise IT started to forget ETL
One troubling image has started to emerge for me. Perhaps my perspective is too filtered by my own encounters, and…
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…
What You Need to Know About Archimate 3.0
On June 14th, 2016, as part of IRM Enterprise Architecture Europe Conference held in London, The Open Group revealed its…
Welcoming Archimate to Enterprise Architecture
I’m going to get some heat for that title… I’m sure of it. Archimate has been a diagramming standard for…
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…
Diversity Versus Replication of Organizational Processes and Information
I recently had the pleasure of joining a discussion among organizational development professionals. During that discussion, one individual asked an…
Rumination on the concept of “best practice”
I heard some very interesting talks today from Len Fehskens and Jeff Scott at the Open Group conference. One thing…
Aligning the EBMM with Archimate
I just recently had a conversation with a talented enterprise architect who had brought together the EA framework elements from…
Time-to-Release – the missing System Quality Attribute
I’ve been looking at different ways to implement the ATAM method these past few weeks. Why? Because I’m looking at…
The End of Flash
The writing is on the wall. Adobe has abandoned Mobile Flash in favor of HTML5. It is just a matter…