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Rethinking IT projects? Think service, not product, focus

I’ve read a number of articles and thought pieces recently that explore the problems with approaches to IT delivery that focus too much on projects as the organising concept – particularly when it comes to SOA adoption. The shortcomings of an overly project-focused approach are something I can agree with wholeheartedly. The research we conducted [...]

Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 by

Real-world Enterprise Architecture part II: conversation, federation, road trips and tools

In my previous post I explained how in order to get real value out of Enterprise Architecture (EA) work, it’s critical to focus not only on the outputs of EA work, but also on the process/practice of EA – and moreover that the process/practice has to focus on *conversations*. What does this mean for tools, [...]

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by

Real-world Enterprise Architecture part I: journey vs destination

I was talking to Donna Burbank, Director of Enterprise Modelling and Architecture Solutions at Embarcadero a few days ago – she was briefing me about the company’s new EA/Studio product. We digressed a fair bit along the way, particularly sharing notes regarding our experiences of how Enterprise Architecture (EA) *actually* works in the real world. [...]

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 by

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Sustainable SOA and "closed loop" thinking

Todd Biske of Momentum has a great blog on SOA and EA, and one of his recent posts chimed particularly with something we’ve been talking about for quite a while now – sustainability. This is a theme that NeilM and I and Jon (and also Dale, our partner at Freeform Dynamics and book co-author) – [...]

Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 by