http://blog.aogea.org Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:47:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Start of the journey This is the beginning of the journey to developing a flourishing professional body. Since it is the Association of rather than for Open Group Enterprise Architects, its success is going to be mostly down to the members. To start out, we have announced the AOGEA and opened it ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=4 I don’t want to shut off discussion of my last post, but I noted there that another of my open questions about enterprise architecture is: “Is it possible for someone to be a competent architect without any experience as a practitioner in the implementation medium of the architectures he/she ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=27 There's increasing interest in developing a university curriculum for educating enterprise architects, and it's inevitable when talking with academics that questions about possible research topics come up. Last year I gave a talk on "Open Questions about Enterprise Architecture and the Enterprise Architecture Profession" at The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=24 It’s that time of year once again. It’s the season for those time honored back-yard barbecues. In the US the barbe season starts around July 4th and goes straight through the end of August – culminating with my birthday party at the end of the summer - the most ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=21 I recently gave a presentation at a CIO Summit, promoting the need for Enterprise Architects in general and for preferring professional grade members of the Association when hiring staff or contracting with service providers. The feedback suggests that the presentation was well received but I came ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=19 I would be interested to know how you deal with architecture governance in your enterprise, how well accepted it is and how effective it is. In some places it is known as the "G" word and not spoken about. One person said that as soon as you ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=18 The San Francisco Chronicle caught my eye recently with a headline: "Bad behavior in the blogosphere" The sub-heading was "Vitriolic comments aimed at tech writer make some worry about downside of anonymity" It always disappoints me when I see flame mails or criticism or comments of a ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=17 The Economist published a special report entitled "The battle for brainpower" in its October 7th-13th, 2006 issue. It is well worth reading in full, not so much because it tells us anything we didn't already know but more because of the way it presents what is occurring in this industry. ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=5 In The Open Group conference and member meeting in San Diego in January, I heard so many people recommend the book, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" that I wished I had been given a dollar each time. A couple of weeks ago, we held our second Architecture Practitioners Conference ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=16 Anyone that's travelled on the London Underground (aka the Tube) will be familiar with the expression, "mind the gap". Some might even have the t-shirt. This is such a problem that the London Undeground web site has a section titled "Tourist info".... not "Tourist information" ... ... http://blog.aogea.org/?p=12