One more voice blogging in the EA wilderness
I’m now blogging on the Gartner Blog Network (GBN). Everyone else blogging at Gartner is here too. To get started, I suppose it’s good to set a few goals for my efforts. Among the things I’d really...
View ArticleShow Me The Money! Using EA to Structure Spend (US Federal VUE-IT)
One goal, but I hope never the only goal, of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to help understand and manage and indeed improve the value of IT spend. Many techniques are employed, including tying EA...
View ArticleA Clear Trend for Trends
Lately, news in my feed reader (Google), people/entities I follow on Twitter (Twitterfon), and even good old paper newspapers (NY Times, Washington Post) seem to be doing more with trends. You can get...
View ArticleCapacity Planning Equals Budget Planning
To quote from my Gartner colleague Lydia Leong’s recent post on cloud computing: “Capacity planning equals budget planning, so it’s rarely an, “eh, because we can scale quickly, it doesn’t matter.” I...
View ArticleArchitecting “free”— Gladwell v Anderson et. al.
Yet again, my colleage Lydia Leong has mentioned something that reminded me of something in EA. In her “A hodgepodge of links” blog entry, she mentioned enjoying Malcolm Gladwell’s “Priced to Sell: Is...
View ArticleGreen Architects?
Found this post while lurking a #EA twitter search: ARCHITECTS ARE GOING GREEN (Cute pic, btw.) Are architects going green? IT is trying, but I don’t really hear many EA clients I talk to bringing...
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