So with time, I am starting to get depressed on the status of enterprise architecture. What was hailed as a revolutionary approach to capturing the holistic view of the enterprise, is now a nightmare that everyone wants to run away from. Or at least, a manager has a business unit labeled with EA under his [...]
NORA, What a mess!
Here in Saudi Arabia, we have our local Enterprise Architecture framework which is called the National Overall Reference Architecture (NORA in short and not to be confused by the other NORA in the Netherlands) which is developed and maintained by the Saudi E-Government Program (Yesser Program). To be frank, I have never adopted this methodology [...]
Another look at Business Capabilities
“Don’t forget they will learn, and don’t forget recorders. Now, Chaplain, you’ve got a problem about Moties and Creation. The Empire has another. For a long time we’ve talked about the Great Galactic Wizards showing up and deciding whether to let the humans join, right? Only it’s the other way around, isn’t it? We’ve got [...]
Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture
So I have been fortunate to read Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture book by Gerben Wierda which has a lot of great material that opened my eyes to a much broader view beyond whatever I know so far. Wierda has a very long experience which meshing up everything that relates to technology and [...]
The thing they call Agility
A New day, new people, and as is tradition new methodologies. I know everyone wants to show the world how his/her new approach will solve much of the lacking aspects of other approaches (The majority are not of these types, but I will do it to show the world I know). We have seen this [...]