EA Foundations

I wanted to give some feedback on some new thoughts from Gartner in their keynote on Emergence Architecture. Overall I thought it was a...

I created the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK) to make Microsoft Word 2007 a first class citizen in the architecture description...

I ran across an interesting post on J.D. Meier's Blog that describes the Patterns & Practices project called the Application Architecture...

Recently, I have had discussions with folks at Microsoft about Architecture Styles. This term has been used in the IT industry for a very...

Paul Priess wrote an interesting post called The foundation skill set for architects. He also wrote for the Microsoft Architecture...

Chris Potts wrote an insightful post on People versus Models. Chris's article goes into the current challenges in banking and contrasting...

In recent letter from Zachman International they have announced two updates the popular Zachman Framework. They are relatively small....

Loud Sigh who just joined the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Review Board wrote a great post on how to prepare for the review board,...

Recently I was asked to chime in on how to setup a global enterprise asset roadmap strategy. This was a fully loaded question and also a...

Have you ever tried to compare EA frameworks? How do you compare and are all frameworks the same. The reader digest version of the answer...

For those who didn't get the updates. Here is a summary of the activates at the Open Group Conference in Chicago. The Open Group’s 19th...

The Open Group has recently released a draft version of a SOA ontology. They have been developing a formal ontology for SOA for some time...

Well, yes and no. We are hearing more and more about Global EA with the continuing globalization efforts. Mergers and Acquisitions are...

I thought I would write this potentially controversial post about how traditional productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (Word,...

Over the past month there has been a flurry of interest in what is referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK). The last...

Are you wondering what EA is? Or maybe you would like to understand what the industry standard definition is... Well your out of luck in...

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) 2nd IT Conference 2008 was the largest IT Architecture event in South East...

Last week I read an article on Twitter's Developer Blog called Twittering about Architecture. It was an interesting read because it...

Mike Rollings will be leading this program from within Burton. I haven't had a chance to review the two articles he has written but the...

I ran across this great post that takes a stab at contrasting the various architecture roles. I think Karthik Vijayakumar does a good job...