I’ve been taking about Enterprise Architects (EAs) providing solution options vs just one recommendation all week. When presenting these...

In my recent blogs I discussed why Enterprise Architects (EAs) should always present options and not just the final recommendation. I...

Last time I talked about always having Enterprise Architecture (EA) provide options with their recommended solution architecture. I also...

Every time I took over an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team I found that most of my architects didn’t have any standards around how to...

Integrations are hard. They are also one of the key elements that make your company more nimble. So when you build your integration...

THEY are the vendors that have been telling me since 2000 that they have great tools to make application to application integration...

As context read my blog on the return of big software firm domination. It talks about my fear that BoB (Best-of-Bread) SaaS...

In my first blog on Architecture Principles I talked about the most important one was “Keep IT simple”. This is why I believe the SaaS...

This is my first blog on Architecture Principles. The most important I believe is “Keep it simple”. This principle seems obvious. But...

I’m talking to you Chief Architect. Roll up your sleeve. Get some real work done. Leading Enterprise Architecture (EA) is not a job for...

We’ve talked about how we’d love all Enterprise Architecture (EA) core team members to be Unicorns. These are the folks in the light...

The below table shows my opinion of how to structure the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team. I’ve used this chart now 3 or 4 times. If I...

So we’ve talked about where Enterprise Architecture (EA) reports to in the organization, how EA should be structured and what EA team...

Who do Enterprise Architects (EAs) report to has become a very lively debate. For this debate let’s take the organizational construct I...

What does the topic of industry knowledge have to do with Enterprise Architecture organizational design? Nothing and that is the point....

You might have noticed in yesterday’s blog that ideally Enterprise Architecture should be able to dictate the solution architecture for...

I shared my thoughts on Architecture Review Boards in yesterday’s blog. Related to that topic I often got the question on what decision...

A.R.B. The dreaded three letter acronym of your IT community and another one of those mysterious IT things for your business partners....

My first Enterprise Architecture (EA) Operating Model blog was about two key things EA has to do. So we’ve got the following two Keeper...

In my last blog we talked about getting Enterprise Architecture engaged as soon as possible in figuring out how to approach major...