Enterprise Patterns are one of the most useful tools for the EA team to have emerged in recent years. They are a great way to document an aggregate view of the constraints of a current architecture, or the capabilities that are enabled by a target architecture. TOGAF provides a brief outline of the content of…
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IRM UK January 2015 Newsletter
by Roger Evernden •
Four useful articlesThe IRM newsletter often covers contemporary EA topics. The latest issue (January 2015) has four articles, including one that I’ve written that provides a step-by-step guide to using Enterprise Patterns: Real World Business Processes: There is No Such Thing as a Bad Example – “After the Fire Alarm”, Roger Burlton We Want to…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Enterprise Patterns
by Roger Evernden •
Enterprise architecture “should not only provide value on implementation, but at each stage of the strategy-execution lifecycle.” I’ve recently written “A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Enterprise Patterns,” as an Executive Update for Cutter Consortium. My previous Cutter work has discussed enterprise patterns, and has provided a step-by-step guide to create them. In this Executive Update,…
Enterprise Patterns – Cutter IT Journal
by Roger Evernden •
I was recently guest editor of an issue of Cutter’s IT Journal: the theme was Enterprise Patterns — the Key to Delivering Enterprise Transformation?: Change at an architectural level is always transformational. But too often architects have struggled to demonstrate or realize this potential for making a significant, positive difference at the enterprise level. Instead,…
Special Complimentary Offer – Enterprise Patterns Executive Report
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Follow this link to receive a complimentary copy of an executive report that I produced recently for Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Patterns: The Key to Effective EA Application as Transformation
Architecture – a way of thinking about information and enterprise
by Roger Evernden •
Why do we use “architecture” as a term to describe our discipline? The notion of architecture as a way of thinking about information and enterprise started in the late 1970s. In particular, the writings of Richard Saul Wurman, Richard Nolan, and Christopher Alexander first suggested applying this way of thinking to understand information and information…
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by Roger Evernden •
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…
The Top 10 M&A Fallacies and Self-Deceptions
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The Top 10 M&A Fallacies and Self-Deceptions is another useful article from the strategy+business site. It looks at the key considerations in taking the decision to merge or acquire. In doing so it explores the key dilemma – the M&A deal offers great opportunities, but how often are they delivered? Often overlooked is the sheer complexity…
Enterprise Patterns: The Key to Effective EA Application as Transformation
by Roger Evernden •
Enterprise Patterns: The Key to Effective EA Application as Transformation | Cutter Consortium. This is my latest Executive Report, written for Cutter Consortium: Enterprise architecture is more than IT. It is more than the embodiment of strategy. When it comes to understanding and managing significant enterprise change, enterprise architecture is a crucial discipline; thus, it is…
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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.