Happy Holiday Weekend To My Canadian Friends:- Some of you luck ones may have fled your cubes, offices or project rooms – and for those of you left, you might be in for a little reading. If you have been considering the Canadian training coming up October 20-24th, there are still 3 spots available in the IT Architect Boot Camp workshop, and 4 spots in the Solution Architect workshop. It…
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Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management
Ok – so maybe you haven’t heard the buzz about the marriage between EA and Portfolio Management. It’s been going on long enough to get the seven year itch already – so why should I go on about that today? My head hurts – I’ve been knee deep in the weeds building course ware for about three months and I’ve come up for air. It’s probably the first thing I thought of…
Technical Solutions Architect Prepares for Disaster
This week was interesting. The place at which I spend many minutes had a disaster. There was an explosion below the street, causing one unfortunate soul incredible burns, and an entire block the loss of power. Some residents nearby were without heat for over twenty four hours. That’s not good if you live in a winterizes place. The place I spend many minutes were incredibly equipped to deal with the…
Practical Enterprise Architecture – Let Me Count the Ways
I’m sure as many of you do, you reach home after a weary four days of work and are frustrated because your work seems to be one big giant conflict. You spend an hour and a half of a one hour meeting (notice that we only went over by 50%?) going back and forth and back and forth. You might get a turn with the magic white board markers, confident…