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Short post today: my new column on the Enterprise Architecture Professional Journal, titled "The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA" has been published. A somewhat technical subject: service oriented architectures and performance issues. With a few ArchiMate views added to the…
Read More New ‘On Slippery Ice’ column at EAPJ: “The (Forgotten) Other Half of SOA”
Recently, Samuel Holcman published the short Outside-In vs. Inside-Out in Enterprise Architecture document and announced it on LinkedIn. The issue he raises is that the clients of organisations more and more seem to become the ones that perform the organisation's processes (e.g. self-service),…
Read More “I, Robot” – there is no such thing as ‘Customer Self-Service’
I've made a free excerpt of Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture available. It contains the Prologue Loosely Coupled Spaghetti, and the Table of Contents. Please go the the home page of the book.
(Sorry, long story. It will return in an appendix in Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture. It's not related to that book's main message, it is just an 'illustration' used in the book, which I thought would be nice for…
Principles and guidelines are not architecture, and if your main product is principles and guidelines, you’re not an architect.
The site for the next book "Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture" has gone live. It will take some time still before the book is available, but I will already start blogging a bit about the subject. A welcome…
Who needs another blog if the one you have is already reasonably successful? Well, I do. That is because that other blog is about the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modelling language and this one is about enterprise architecture in general. And…
This YouTube video has proven to be useful to explain to organisations why Enterprise Architecture is useful. Description from the YouTube page: Meet Michael, he works at a your company. He needs support from IT to do his job, so…
Earlier, I wrote about an ongoing attempt to map #BPMN to #ArchiMate. Now that some time has passed, we have come to a solution, though at this stage it is not yet 100% complete. In a couple of posts, I…
We architects love abstraction. Abstraction makes the nitty gritty and complex details disappear. Abstraction makes the unmanageable manageable. Our business colleagues also love it when we produce abstractions. It makes our end products easier to digest. In ArchiMate, you can…
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