EA Foundations

In James McGovern’s post Enterprise Architecture and Sailing, he has discovered a great way to articulate the way EA behaves and...

Your puzzled by the title aren't you? In a recent e-mail discussion the question came up regarding enterprise architecture frameworks....

All the time I get the questions about how to do current state architecture or “as-is” architecture at executive briefings (EBC), at...

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine that resulted in some disagreements on root issues architects face. The topic of...

Last week Sohel Aziz’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Infosys released there annual EA survey from their very large customer base....

There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture...

Mike Kavis posted a high level cheat sheet for the Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF) on his blog today. Here is the...

Ran across an interesting post from Johan den Haan in which he shares his thoughts on the Top Ten Misperceptions and Challenges of Model...

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Allen Brown, president of the Open Group regarding the latest TOGAF release. Thanks to...

The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be interesting to folks in that area. See below...

If you would like a free version of the report from Forrester Troux is giving away a limited number of copies. See the details below from...

There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in...

Gabriel Morgan really hit the ball out of the park with his post on Enterprise Solution Architects and Leadership. He did a great job of...

As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those decks from the conference or event....

Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF). I did skim and let me stress that I...

I had an interesting e-mail thread with some folks here at Microsoft talking about delivering content for architects and thought I would...

Obviously, this whitepaper is used as a catalyst to drive services from IBM and I am not supporting that here. However,  there is some...

I did observe that there was quite the drop-off between day 1 and day 2 for some reason. I am not sure if it was due to work pressures by...

At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution showcase floor regarding an architecture...

Just so everyone knows, this is Gartner's London EA Summit event and not the North American event. It does seem a lot smaller than the...