Which Enterprise Architect did you mean?

The IT industry has a magnificent history of appropriating titles and then through the process of demand outstripping supply, diluting the skills and requirements for those roles to a new lowest common denominator based average. We have seen this across IT specific roles in each of the pre-millennium “revolutions” (think the desktop design revolution of … Continue reading Which Enterprise Architect did you mean? →

The Fool, the JourneyMan, and the Expert

  Whether I talk about my earliest stints as a masseuse, my forays into agriculture, professional photography, or the mainstay of my employment, the Information Systems and Technology fields – for much of my working life, I have been teetering on the see-saw of comparative knowledge. We all start on our paths as fools. In many … Continue reading The Fool, the JourneyMan, and the Expert →

Is EA broken? Does EA have value?

These are the questions de jour on many forums, in recent trade articles and across the LinkedIn environment. It would be easy to simply respond with “no” and move on, but nobody has time for such a short response, so this longer response is required. I have always been a huge fan of utilising analogies … Continue reading Is EA broken? Does EA have value? →

Implementing a Corporate EA training capability framework?

This is a rambling entry, because one of my biggest issues is that my brain is always churning. I have thoughts that keep cycling, re-cycling and uncovering new stones ad infinitum. So sometimes, when it comes to writing – my thought processes makes it impossible to provide any form of standardised flow of defined structure. So, … Continue reading Implementing a Corporate EA training capability framework? →

expanding the synaptic roadmaps

The value of maths problems from those mathematics classes when we were at school was not about whether you would ever use them in real life (though I have in some of the strangest ways!) but the fact that it rewires your wetworks.

Does agility need an old-fashioned, solid, foundation?

How can an organization anticipate, adapt and respond to whatever complexity the global economy, competition and changing technologies present?