Title Current Role Interests Current Skill Apprentice Architect General IT staff: Developer Analyst Technologist, PM Project Interest; Terminology; Pondering a field in IT Architecture IT analysis, design Construction project management staff management IT Architecture Manager or Director Senior Business or IT Leaders CIO, CTO, Business and IT Strategists PMO and Project Managers Executive Level Understanding of process, approach and benefits of architecture. Strategic planning, IT portfolio management; IT & Enterprise…
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Technical Architecture Landscape – Your Best Target?
In putting some efforts towards my fall seminar schedule, I have been focused on my Technical Architecture Workshops and had a thought today worth sharing. As enterprise architects, we attempt to capture business strategy and put some alignment to our IT Strategy, and formulate an IT Current State and IT Target State architecture. The IT plan is the people, process and technology initiatives that we plan for the year, and…
The Solution Architect and the Merger & Acquisition
Mergers & acquisitions – Calling All Architect’s – We’ve Got a Merger & Acquisition What are your IT Project Priorities – do you have one of those “Yours, Mine & Ours” situations??? What I mean is that when a business decides to buy another company, or merge with one, often there are multiple perspectives to project priorities. If one business arm decides they need a bigger sales force, and another…
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…
No Crystal Ball for Enterprise Architecture Methodology
Do You Have a Crystal Ball: 3 Future State Architecture Keys to Make them Think So! Documenting the current state architecture is a must to any enterprise or system architecture report, and even though we understand this, it’s the future state that everyone is anxious to see and share. Let’s face it – they are also waiting to critique it. There are components of a future architecture that make or…
Ethics in IT Architecture Skills
I’ve been away building and authoring courses, so writing has gone into something other than frivolous blurbs. Just came back from an evening with a speaker on ethics – it was supposed to have something to do with Ethics in IT and although that’s not what it was about, I was able to draw a few lines and relationships to IT from what the speaker had to say. A few…
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…
IT Architecture Workshops – Picasso or Plumber?
I’ve been asked over and over how I became an I.T. Architect. I always hesitate, and say “well…” More often than not, I get into the long stories about my university degrees and my varying path in life and career. The short answer is “I changed careers multiple times within the field of I.T.”. The long answer is experience. The I.T. Architect is a technologist, a leader, a consultant, a…
Message from Zachman — The Midas Touch
Here I am again, bleary eyes but wanting to share all from this year’s Fall EAC. I have so much to share, and tonight will just have to be a summary. I catch the red eye in 6 hours, and suitcases still have to be filled – you know the drill. This year was a little different. More keynotes, but fewer messages. The last one was fabulous, so all is…