In the book, I've written about several standard instruments of the orthodox enterprise architecture approach. One of these is the use of 'architecture principles'. I'm convinced, personally, that these often do more bad than good and this has to do…
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I work in the trenches of real enterprise architecture and write on the basis of that.
Open Letter to TOG #4
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
What is wrong with this picture?
It is time for another one in the "What's wrong with this picture?" series. This time, I might maybe better have called it "What is not wrong with this picture?". Here is the story. A company I know has started…
Open Letter to TOG #3
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
Modelling a rich business service (What was wrong with that picture?)
In the post What is wrong with this picture? I showed a pattern devised by an enterprise architect to model the standard services they want to provide to customers. The idea of such a service is that is is largely some sort of…
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Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available as PDF
Chess and the Art of Enterprise is now also available as PDF for those who like to read it on a device instead of on paper. This version looks exactly like the paper version (which means: more elegant than the iBook).…
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Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture now available as iBook
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture is also available as an iBook. The price depends on where you are, as iBooks prices are inclusive of tax. However, the book has been priced at roughly two thirds of the paperback…
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Open Letter to TOG #2
Dear TOG, I hope this letter finds you well. As shepherd of the ArchiMate standard, you are currently working on its next iteration. As I am not part of the ArchiMate Forum, I am going to send you a few…
A worthwhile reality check
I came across the following post on LinkedIn Pulse: The 5 Resource Bottle Necks In Big Data, Including The Intangible 5th. I think this post is important for all the programmers, software designers and architects that are so infatuated with battling…
Another milestone: 200,000 views for the Mastering #ArchiMate blog
http://masteringarchimate.com has passed the 200,000 view mark during my vacation. I started this blog in 2011. In June 2014 it passed the 100,000 view mark. It took 14 months to get the next 100,000 views. That is a milestone I wanted…
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