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September 1, 2007
My Dear Technology and Enterprise Architecture
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Oh how dear is my technology? The Wall Street Journal, 1-2 September 2007, wrote about a dying woman and her last words to her daughters: “I...
August 31, 2007
SOA Best Practices
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I came across these Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices and thought they aligned well with User-centric EA and were worth sha...
IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA provides Information Technology (IT) governance services by providing technical reviews for new or substantial changes to IT...
August 30, 2007
CONOPS, Proof of Concepts, Prototypes, Pilots, and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA seeks to implement successful IT governance for the enterprise. As such, it seeks to ensure that new systems not only meet ...
August 29, 2007
SDLC, CPIC, PMBOK, and EA
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User-centric EA seeks to align the various life cycle IT system processes to help users understand, navigate, and complete these as simply a...
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Psychopaths and Enterprise Architecture
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In user-centric EA we are very focused on meeting the needs and requirements of the user community. However we need to beware of the fact th...
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August 28, 2007
Data Architecture Done Right
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Data architecture done right provides for the discovery and exchange of data assets between producers and consumers of data. Data discovery ...
August 27, 2007
Five Pitfalls of Enterprise Architecture Review Boards
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EA Review Boards are necessary for supporting sound technology investment management decisions (a.k.a. CPIC or capital planning and investme...
August 26, 2007
Space Elevator and Enterprise Architecture
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In User-centric EA, having a vision for the future is critical in developing the target architecture and transition plan. At one time, man ...
August 25, 2007
Darwin and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA seeks the long term preservation, maturation, and growth of the organization and its ability to deliver mission execution . ...
August 24, 2007
Why Isn’t There a Chief Data Architect in the Federal Government?
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In the federal government, there is a Chief Enterprise Architect in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) — this is a good thing. But th...
August 23, 2007
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA helps an organization meet its needs on many levels. The great psychologist Abraham Maslow, in the Hierarchy of Human Needs...
August 22, 2007
Leadership Styles and Enterprise Architecture
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Is being a good leader about being a dictator or facilitating decision by consensus? The Wall Street Journal, 11 August, 2007 reports that...
August 21, 2007
Austerity and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA believes in planning for the future —often uncertain, but always full of potential. Fortune Magazine, 20 August, 2007 , iden...
August 20, 2007
Organizational Hubris and Enterprise Architecture
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Organizational arrogance is the anathema of user-centric EA. In Fortune Magazine, 20 August, 2007 , in the article “Don’t be Arrogant”, it ...
August 19, 2007
Enterprise Architecture – Ask Lots of Questions!
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In User-centric Enterprise Architecture, we ask lots and lots of questions. Why do we ask lots of questions? In User-centric EA, we are no...
August 18, 2007
Need to Know or Responsibility to Share
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User-Centric EA is all about information sharing. This vision of information sharing has the support at the United States Coast Guard, of C...
August 17, 2007
Steve Jobs and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA shares Steve Jobs (Apple's) vision for aesthetics, simplicity and minimalism, and innovation. On July 25, 2007, the Wall...
August 16, 2007
EA and the Law of Diminishing Returns
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One of the best known economic laws is the law of diminishing returns, which states that past a certain point, the more input of something, ...
August 15, 2007
A Bar Mitzvah Lesson and Enterprise Architecture
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When I was bar mitzvah (this is the rite of passage when a Jewish Male reaches the age of 13 and accepts upon himself the laws of the Torah)...
August 14, 2007
Kaizen and Enterprise Architecture
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User-Centric Enterprise Architecture and Kaizen are blood brothers — both are dedicated to improvement. I love Kaizen! Kaizen is the Japan...
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August 13, 2007
Hollywood Has the Vision, Why doesn’t the CIO or EA?
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Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Gallactica, James Bond, 24, and so many more films are creative and future looking. Indeed, Hollywood see...
August 12, 2007
Enterprise Architecture: Program or Project?
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Enterprise Architecture is a program with many phases and projects. Several times in my career, I have been brought in to develop an enter...
August 11, 2007
Virtual Relationships and Enterprise Architecture
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User-centric EA is based on establishing relationships. There are relationships with stakeholders, which includes understanding their infor...
August 10, 2007
Bureaucracy and Its Impact on EA (and vice versa!)
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Bureaucracy dulls even Enterprise Architecture, but EA fights back and unleashes innovation, spontaneity, and the human spirit. Bureaucrac...
August 9, 2007
What can ITIL teach us about EA
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The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and User-Centric Enterprise Architecture are both customer driven and focused on pr...
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August 8, 2007
The 4 Step CASA Model to User-Centric EA
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There are four steps in user-centric EA, aligned to the process-outcome model (input, process, output, and outcome): First, we Capture info...
August 7, 2007
Enterprise Solutions: If not one, why not one?
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When I worked at the United States Department of the Treasury in 2002, there was a real push by Secretary Paul O’Neil for enterprise solutio...
August 6, 2007
Enterprise Architecture is not Solutions Architecture
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For many years, there was confusion in the architecture community between EA and solutions architecture. For example, I remember one of t...
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August 5, 2007
EA and Principles of Communication & Design
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User-centric EA is about providing decision makers with not only the relevant information they need (i.e. current, accurate, and complete), ...
August 4, 2007
Is Strategy or Operations King?
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Strategy (read EA) and operations are two sides of the same coin — both ultimately seek to provide service and support to the end-user — and...
August 3, 2007
Why Harry Potter Loves EA
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Harry Potter loves User-Centric EA, which is all about making order out of chaos. No, EA is not wizardry, but it can be “magic” to an organ...
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Is SOA like Legos?
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A “service” is a repeatable business task. In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), applications are built by assembling shared, reusable, m...
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August 2, 2007
EA Modeling is Key to Business Process Improvement
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Modeling & simulation has been hailed as a national critical technology and vital to national economic leadership (Source: Congressiona...
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August 1, 2007
EA and the Singularity
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One of the many definitions of EA is that it provides for a current, target, and transition plan for the organization. However, for those of...
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