I am one of those people who love to do things that “can’t be done”. At the end of 2008, I was researching real time transaction processing and cloud computing. I could not find many examples where people had pulled this off. To make matters more challenging, I was looking for case studies where these transactions were also being done with consumer and financial data. When I polled my Twitter network for case studies of... Read More
Struggling for an ROI? Why not practice EA?
I have read many articles giving advice on how to sell a technology to the business. It seems that the ROI is a hard thing to derive and explain in business terms these days. You see it with SOA, Cloud Computing, Social Computing, and even with security (yes, having to prove the value of security)! Being a practitioner and addict of Enterprise Architecture, I find this method of thinking to be amusing and even backwards. It sounds to... Read More
Free E2AF Cheat Sheet
I have put together a very high level cheat sheet for the Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF). I Basically took all of the topics from the E2AF matrix and built a document with bullets representing each topic. It is organized by the six key questions (Why, With Who, What, How, With What, and When) and has sub categories for each question by the four different view points (Business, Information, Information Systems, Technology... Read More
