Now without vague hand waving: What is Enterprise Architecture

Now without vague hand waving: What is Enterprise Architecture

One of the most confusing things about architecture is the vagueness of the naming surrounding it. This is true not only for non-architects, who often don’t really know in detail what all the different disciplines do, but also for the architects themselves.

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Business strategy is like a lizard

Business strategy is like a lizard

Well, the real title was going to be “Business strategy is like a lizard: It leaves behind its tail while it grows a new one,” but that was just too long.

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What's the use of Archimate anyway

What's the use of Archimate anyway

Last week, I discovered a new podcast called The Enterprise Architecture Experience. They had two episodes featuring interviews with Dr. Svyatoslav Kotusev about his books and work.

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Enterprise architectural skunk works

Enterprise architectural skunk works

Most big organizations I’ve worked with are more akin to an ecosystem of multiple smaller companies. These smaller companies all share the same umbrella of the bigger total but internally compete for resources and priorities.

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Mapping out an organization is a massive task

Mapping out an organization is a massive task

A big part of enterprise architecture is keeping your architecture model up to date. Without this model, it’s impossible to do your real job in advising projects, strategy and general company awareness.

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Modeling data and information in an organization

Modeling data and information in an organization

The last weeks I’ve been focusing a lot on the data and information models in our architecture. Organizations have so much data flowing around that it’s hard to effectively map it all out.

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Turning Complexity into Manageable Complication

Turning Complexity into Manageable Complication

Have you ever made bread before in your life? Like from start to finish? It’s not a difficult thing to do.

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Enterprise architecture needs to get better at architecture strategy

Enterprise architecture needs to get better at architecture strategy

I’ve been reading a lot of strategy books these last weeks 1 (also two James Bond books, but that is probably not related to this post), and I’ve been trying to tie it to my everyday work of enterprise architecture.

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Taming Chaos: Handeling vendor based architecture

Taming Chaos: Handeling vendor based architecture

I’ve noticed a huge shift in the architecture of big companies in the last few years: companies are shifting from in-house development to third-party applications, shedding the traditional ‘Not Invented Here’ stigma in favor of external innovation.

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Communication for team leaders - Ownership

Communication for team leaders - Ownership

And we’ve come to the last post in the series of “communication for team leaders.” This one is about ownership.

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