http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/ Adrian Grigoriu blogs about everything relating to enterprise and business architecture, SOA, frameworks, design, planning, execution, organization and related issues. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 08 May 2012 10:55:10 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A governance framework establishes who makes what decisions and based on what. The EA architects shall propose a governance framework that regulates the EA development itself and its employment in the enterprise. The development governance is the instrument to control the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/05/essential-enterprise-architecture-governance.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/05/essential-enterprise-architecture-governance.php Tue, 08 May 2012 10:55:10 +0000 grigoriu How do you make sure that you chose the right candidate for an EA job? Here are a few questions that, if answered to your satisfaction, may clear the way to the appointment. Indeed, there maybe other questions that you... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/05/questions-to-help-you-recruit-an-ea.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/05/questions-to-help-you-recruit-an-ea.php Thu, 03 May 2012 14:52:31 +0000 grigoriu Requirements apply to projects rather than to Enterprise Architecture.  It is the strategy concept that applies to the EA, rather than the requirements one. The strategy team (which usually, is not the same as the EA team), is responsible for putting together... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/04/are-requirements-necessary-for-ea.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/04/are-requirements-necessary-for-ea.php Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:08:28 +0000 grigoriu FFLV-GODS is an EA methodology (or extended framework...) that integrates the many existing frameworks concepts, classifies them in four different aspects, and integrates them in this framework whole.FFLV-GODS consists of:- 1. The Framework itself describing the EA structure (its layers, views, nodes...). It looks like... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/04/an-enterprise-architecture-framework-fflv-gods.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/04/an-enterprise-architecture-framework-fflv-gods.php Enterprise Architecture Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:26:51 +0000 grigoriu How do we describe an Enterprise? Let me give you an well known example, the human body and illustrate the way the enterprise should be described, by comparison. The description of the structure and operation of the Enterprise is shown here... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/03/enterprise-architecture-the-anatomy-and-physiology-of-the-enterprise.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/03/enterprise-architecture-the-anatomy-and-physiology-of-the-enterprise.php Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:34:54 +0000 grigoriu Currently, many EA architects come from and work in IT. That does not necessarily have to be so. As it happens, some have some knowledge of programming. But that does not mean that such knowledge is required for an EA.... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/03/is-there-programming-language-necessary-for-an-ea-architect.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/03/is-there-programming-language-necessary-for-an-ea-architect.php Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:52:41 +0000 grigoriu The core requirement (the "Must") for an EA architect is a candidate that knows how to uncover the structure of systems, use the proper methods to document the enterprise operation, link parts into the whole, and understands architecture roadmapping... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/the-enterprise-architect-and-specialist-knowledge.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/the-enterprise-architect-and-specialist-knowledge.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:02:42 +0000 grigoriu After a decade (or even two) of banging around the EA concept, there are too many egos and vested interests at play that render the process of objectively defining EA harder than it should be.Well, reputed fora, studiously ignoring... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/the-ea-definition-in-wikipedia.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/the-ea-definition-in-wikipedia.php Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:19:26 +0000 grigoriu Cont'd.Wikipedia: "the United States Government describes enterprise architecture as an Information Technology function. Instead of describing enterprise architecture in relation to the practice of examining an enterprise, the U.S. Government defines the term to refer to the documented results of... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/enterprise-architecture-entry-in-wikipedia-part-2.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/enterprise-architecture-entry-in-wikipedia-part-2.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:23 +0000 grigoriu  Here is a hearty LinkedIn debate about the Enterprise Architecture entry in Wikipedia. I'll comment only the outcome, the Wikipedia entry itself.  It is informative indeed, but how useful is it in practice to you? Ultimately, I found it... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/enterprise-architecture-entry-in-wikipedia.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/02/enterprise-architecture-entry-in-wikipedia.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:38 +0000 grigoriu In time it became rather clear to me that most EA architects usually labour at describing simple capabilities, design solution architectures, police the development of solutions, establish architecture principles - but not the full EA framework -, specify IT... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/01/thw-enterprise-architecture-we-do-today.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2012/01/thw-enterprise-architecture-we-do-today.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:17:27 +0000 grigoriu cnt'd The OM is  rather implicitly created  at the creation of the company or at its extension, rather than deliberately by an EA effort. It is also rather hard to believe that an EA architect, working in IT, would impose or even propose an operating model... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-book-review-2.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-book-review-2.php Enterprise Architecture Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:49:00 +0000 grigoriu I browsed the book "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill and David C. Robertson quite a few times, never quite making my mind about it. It is widely recommended though. But since it landed on the next desk, I decided... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-review.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/enterprise-architecture-as-strategy-review.php Enterprise Architecture Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:17:24 +0000 grigoriu Put together some time ago while working in mobile telecoms. I called it Adrian's Mobile Broadband Law. Lack of imagination perhaps. At the time, I produced it in the desire to forecast the rates to come in the mobile arena, so that I could... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/mobile-broadband-growth-law.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/12/mobile-broadband-growth-law.php Enterprise IT Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:01:28 +0000 grigoriu I just want to expose in one picture the various types of IT outsourcing a Enterprise can employ today. Here is a self-explanatory picture:     You can notice a mixture of good old traditional outsourcing such as Data Centre and Managed Services that... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/11/enterprise-it-outsourcing.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/ea_matters/2011/11/enterprise-it-outsourcing.php Extended Enterprise Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:14:29 +0000 grigoriu