Managing Information

The CMDB as an architecture source

Every company that I’ve helped start their enterprise architecture practice so far, always tell me that they might not have architecture setup yet, but they do have a ton of information in the …

Solution designs should only be a few pages

Architects always get a bad rap when it comes to design documents.

We get blamed for delivering these massive solution design documents that take weeks to produce, eat into the time for development …

How teams grow organically

I’ve been working a lot with service line architecture recently. If you’re not familiar with that; it’s how business units such as IT, HR, or Sales bring services to clients, both …

People, Processes, Technology and Information

In my last post¹, I briefly talked about how I include information (PPTI) in my operating model (PPT), and I even promised to write a post about it. This is that post.

People, processes, and …

What's the use of Archimate anyway

Last week, I discovered a new podcast called The Enterprise Architecture Experience. …

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. …