Archives November 2020

We are proud to announce the beginning of a new series of ->free live webinars dedicated to all of our friends in eastern Asia, Australia and New Zealand (and elsewhere, too, of course!)

Every Wednesday 9am CET held 100% live and free by one of our members.

Topics covered in Dezember:

• Dec.  2nd: “Getting Started with Enterprise Design” – Milan Guenther
• Dec. 9th: “Architectural Thinking Overview” – Wolfgang Goebl
• Dec. 16th: “Milky Way Enterprise Maps” – Annika Klyver
• Dec 23th: “Capability Modeling” – Wolfgang Goebl
• Dec. 30th: “Enterprise Design Impact Patterns” – Bard Papegaaij

Stay tuned at: https://architectural-thinking.com/events/

Whenever I discuss with people from the Agile world what ‘Agile’ is all about, they tell me that it’s very core is a mindset that is established through values and principles.

All agile practices, methods, and frameworks evolve out of this mindset. Ahmed Sidky visualizes this idea in his ->webinar:

When I saw this picture my gut told me that there is something fundamentally wrong with this idea. It took me weeks to find out why: Read More

Since it’s beginning as a discipline, Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) has been performed by a specific “Enterprise Architect” (EA) role. In practice, this role has been far too often reduced to managing the repository of IT applications and drawing fancy, IT-focused diagrams that never reach the reality of solution development. EAM, even after almost four decades, still seems locked in its ivory IT tower with only limited practical influence on strategic business decisions. How many enterprises have been actually architected by EAs?

But why? How comes that EAM fails to do what it is supposed to – architecting enterprises? My answer: Read More