It’s prediction time – what will 2012 bring? I’ve put my thoughts into a blog on the Cutter Consortium site: A Focus on Environment – not Enterprise – as the Context for Architecture.
Environment not Enterprise
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DevOps
DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development and IT operations professionals (see Wikipedia for an overview). The latest Cutter report, Embedding Devops in the Enterprise, features insight from devops guru Patrick Debois, with contributions from Ernest Mueller, Bill Keyworth, Scott Ambler, Alex LeQuoc, and Kief Morris. To deliver the real benefits and value from Enterprise Architecture requires close collaboration with the development and operations teams. So it is surprising that communication and shared knowledge between these three areas is an issue in many organizations. DevOps is an opportunity for the EA community to improve this situation. In particular, DevOps helps provide some common language and terminology between development and operations. A large part of EA is also about establishing a common language to be able to discuss architectural issues at all levels in the enterprise. Architecture is the foundation for development and operations, and so it is vital to bridge gaps between architecture, design and the delivery process, and to gather feedback, metrics and insight from operations. Improved communications in the vital triangle of architecture, development and operations will result in greater agility and an improved response to business [...]
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Enterprise Transformation Role at NAB
The recent restructuring at National Australia Bank (NAB) is typical of a change in role that is likely to impact many CIOs. The NextGen project at NAB, started in 2008, is an enterprise transformation initiative. In the moves, NAB has effectively split the CIO role in two (The Australian headline said National Australia Bank abolishes CIO role in reshuffle): Adam Bennett, whose previous role was CIO, is now executive general manager of enterprise transformation, but also retains the IT strategy responsibilities from the CIO role. [The Wall Street Journal pointed out that the bank see this as a promotion for Bennett] Day-to-day management of IT is now handled by Denis McGee, with the title of chief technology officer. Bennett and McGee, and all technology staff, report to Gavin Slater, who is the group executive of Group Business Services. There are two key changes which convince me that changes like this will be more common in the future: The first is that change management programs that are making a significant difference to the nature and capabilities of an enterprise are increasingly labelled as enterprise transformation. In other words, the complexity and architectural nature of this type of change is being recognised at [...]
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5-Years Journey Of TOGAF In China Is Just A Beginning For EA | Forrester Blogs
As with many things, the potential market for EA in emerging economies is huge. Here is an interesting overview of the potential future for EA in China. Charlie Dai asks “Will standard frameworks like TOGAF catch on? What is the best way to encourage development of robust EA practices?” 5-Years Journey Of TOGAF In China Is Just A Beginning For EA | Forrester Blogs.
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Social Architecture In 3 Minutes
Social Architecture is an exciting application of architecture techniques. It applies techniques from disciplines such as Enterprise Architecture, mixed in with the availability of social technologies, to the need for organizational and community change. In essence it takes architecture beyond the boundaries of an enterprise, and explores the possibility for architectural change in the broader environmental context. Watch Luc Galoppin here as he explains Social Architecture in 3 Minutes.
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Enterprise Leverage
Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…
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Crystal Ball Time
Stealth Enterprise ArchitectureEach year, Anne Mullaney, sets a challenge to the Cutter consultants: to look into their crystal balls for the annual Cutter Predictions campaign! This year I’m predicting more stealth enterprise architecture! I’d like to say that I invented this phrase – but I’ve found at least two previous uses – one in a comment…
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Top Intriguing Business & Enterprise Architecture Articles for 2013
Every year Cutter compile a list of the five most intriguing articles published by their Business & Enterprise Architecture practice. I think it’s a good indication of the topics that are grabbing the top decision makers. How do they come up with this list? They chose articles that garner the most feedback from Cutter Members and…
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Enterprise Architecture Conference 2014 – IRM
What's on the agenda for 2014?Details of this years IRM EA Conference are now available. As usual, there is an interesting mix of topics – ranging from the introductory to the more advanced. I always find it interesting to look at the topics covered as it gives an indication of what organizations are doing and…
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Environment not Enterprise
It’s prediction time – what will 2012 bring? I’ve put my thoughts into a blog on the Cutter Consortium site: A Focus on Environment – not Enterprise – as the Context for Architecture.
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DevOps
DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development and IT operations professionals (see Wikipedia for an overview). The latest Cutter report, Embedding Devops in the Enterprise, features insight from devops guru Patrick Debois, with contributions from Ernest Mueller, Bill Keyworth, Scott Ambler, Alex LeQuoc, and…
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Enterprise Transformation Role at NAB
The recent restructuring at National Australia Bank (NAB) is typical of a change in role that is likely to impact many CIOs. The NextGen project at NAB, started in 2008, is an enterprise transformation initiative. In the moves, NAB has effectively split the CIO role in two (The Australian headline said National Australia Bank abolishes CIO…
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5-Years Journey Of TOGAF In China Is Just A Beginning For EA | Forrester Blogs
As with many things, the potential market for EA in emerging economies is huge. Here is an interesting overview of the potential future for EA in China. Charlie Dai asks “Will standard frameworks like TOGAF catch on? What is the best way to encourage development of robust EA practices?” 5-Years Journey Of TOGAF In China…
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Social Architecture In 3 Minutes
Social Architecture is an exciting application of architecture techniques. It applies techniques from disciplines such as Enterprise Architecture, mixed in with the availability of social technologies, to the need for organizational and community change. In essence it takes architecture beyond the boundaries of an enterprise, and explores the possibility for architectural change in the broader environmental context.…
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Enterprise Leverage
Focused Efforts Producing Significant ResultsEnterprise leverage occurs when a focused effort produces significant results for the enterprise and its strategy. How do Enterprise Architects help the CIO produce enterprise leverage? Enterprise Architecture (EA) has to go beyond simply improving operational efficiency, reducing costs and providing technical excellence. Here are my suggestions for how the EA role could…
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EA Voices
Get to know what's going on in the EA community. It’s always useful to get a sense of what is going on in the EA community. One way to do this is to follow the leading EA practitioners via their blogs… but a better way is to look at this planet, EA Voices, which aggregates…
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5 Take Aways from the Enterprise Architecture Conference – 15-18 June 2015, London
The forthcoming IRM Enterprise Architecture Conference in London is always a good forum to hear what other people are doing in EA. Looking at the topics on the agenda is a good way to get a feeling for the direction that EA is taking. Here are the 5 takeaways that EA are listing for the…
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Capitalizing on Complexity and Uncertainty
Darren Dalcher, one of my colleagues at Cutter Consortium, has written an Advisor about “The Third Knowledge Revolution: Learning to Live with Uncertainty” (Cutter login required) that has a lot of relevance to enterprise architects. My experience, research and client work shows that knowledge is one of eight fundamental factors that we need to include in EA…
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A Meta Framework
It is probably true to say that every book has one major theme running through it, and probably a few sub-themes. Writing the second edition of a book is a great opportunity to revisit its primary topic to see whether it is still relevant or not. I found it really interesting to revisit the book I wrote with Elaine over ten…
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Upgrading the EA Role
Why the EA role is changingLate last year I wrote a post on the Cutter Blog, entitled EA to Reflect On and Upgrade Its Role, as part of the Cutter predictions series. A recent comment asked said that “EA is mainly perceived as IT discipline and so far largely failed to establish Business Capability Evolution…
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