EA Foundations

Combined with reading some of the latest news in EA and having spent a full week with many architects at an internal Microsoft event...

Today the Open Group has released their yearly state of enterprise architecture on their blog (http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/16/podca...

For those that want to learn about Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) alfabet who is a tools vendor is hosting a webcast on their...

Interesting news from the Open Group in regards to their TOGAF® enterprise architecture framework standard. The Open Group just hit two...

If you follow my blog you will see that I am very hopeful of the future of ArchiMate. There is a great deal of potential here. I wrote a...

Looks like today is the day to release Enterprise Architecture Magazine editions. Paul Preiss, IASA founder and president announced the...

Congratulations to both George Paras and the rest of the Architecture & Governance Magazine team and authors for putting out a great...

Information World published the Enterprise Architecture Awards for 2010 today. Kudos to InfoWorld and Forrester. It is great to see this...

Over the past few weeks MEGA an enterprise architecture (EA) tools provider, has recently announced  MEGA for the TOGAF framework and...

Scott McBride wrote a post announcing the IBM Rational Enterprise Architecture Program a few days ago. This isn't a new program by any...

Recently there was a panel discussion regarding "The State of Enterprise Architecture: Vast Promise or Lost Opportunity?". It was...

In my previous post entitled “Ways to apply the Enterprise Architecture Capability Model (EACM)”, I talked about how to leverage the EACM...

As I was researching the current  industry Enterprise Architecture Capability Models I ran across an interesting observation. I  found...

In this series of posts I am talking about the Enterprise Architecture Maturity Model (EACM) along with it’s usages. In part 1, I provide...

In my last post I showed the Enterprise Architecture Capability Model (EACM). This was developed for a very specific purpose for my...

Enterprise Architecture Capability Model (EACM): a structured approach to developing an EA function that’s robust, resilient, and continuously valuable.

An Architecture Review Board, when designed with intent and carried out thoughtfully, serves as a powerful mechanism to steer an organization in a unified direction. Its true impact is felt when it balances robust governance with agility, fosters a culture of shared ownership, and measures outcomes to demonstrate tangible value.

The Architecture Guidance Team (AGT) is chartered to provide direction and advisory support on architectural practices, patterns, and standards.

In my last post I talked about the definition of an Architecture Review Board (ARB), let’s talk now about what it means to create one. As...

An Architecture Review Board (ARB) is responsible for validating, recommending, and approving solutions supporting the business that meet a defined criteria, executed through a set of processes to manage outcomes, exceptions, and all decisions that will be in turn cataloged to support future decision making. Realized through the ARB, is the alignment to the strategic goals of the company. Adherence to the company’s principles, policies, standards, and the defined industry pro