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Enterprise Architecture
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... or how I learned to stop worrying and love big boxes.
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Often simple questions are the most difficult to answer — be prepared for these 10 Enterprise Architecture interview questions.
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Start squeezing more value from IT.
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It is not easy to interview an Enterprise Architect. These 101 questions should get you started.
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How to win EA supporters and influence people with sound bites.
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This is the way to prove to your stakeholders that your recommendations are not just whims.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
~ Howard Aiken
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So you're a technical guru — these days that's not enough. To be a enterprise architect you absolutely need to have these 11 critical soft skills.
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What is the value of your EA project in 9 words or less?
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Enterprise Architecture (EA) programs often fail due to a lack of support and oversight.
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How to tell if your Enterprise Architect is doing her job.
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CxO level executives are demanding metrics for EA — can you deliver?
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I watch you, you watch me — and 7 other common governance pitfalls.
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Enterprise Architecture (EA) is supposed to help manage IT risks
— but is it possible that EA itself introduces new risks?
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A current state enterprise architecture blueprint represents your organization's high level architecture. It's probably the most important documentation that any IT organization can create and maintain.
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What would Einstein have to say about EA?
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What is the one thing that your business agrees upon?
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The impossible dream: ROI for EA.
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A simple reference process for EA governance.
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Enterprise Architects must choose their words very carefully.
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Enterprise architects are most effective when they both dream and deliver. Conceptualize drunk implement sober is as good an analogy for this process as any.
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8 things an Enterprise Architect should never do.
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Are the architectural messages coming from your EA team consistent and compelling?
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The questions facing the EA community are all about trade-offs: protection vs. freedom, governance vs collaboration etc...
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A bird's eye view of Business Architecture.
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Learn about the work products you can expect from a Business Architect.
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The most difficult job in your IT organization.
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Current state architectural blueprints.
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The planning and design of enterprise information assets.
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Don't expect your ideas to easily fly — ideas are an evolutionary process.
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You heard it here — the days of EA are numbered.
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What patterns can you see in your IT stack?
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The history of Enterprise Architecture is ripe with failures. This one was massive .
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Learn about the 10 most dangerous Enterprise Architecture pitfalls.
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What are Enterprise Architects passionate about? Technology? Business? Communication? How about geometric shapes?
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A few thoughts on introducing yourself to technology leaders.
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Why Enterprise Taxonomies are more exciting than they sound.
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Like it or not — Enterprise Architecture requires marketing, marketing and more marketing.
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Explaining complex business and technical concepts in layman's terms.
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Enterprise Architecture — solving the world's problems one big box at a time.
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So you have defined a set of architectural principles — so now what?
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When architecture is trendy but useless.
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How to make yourself the top candidate by asking the right questions.
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Enterprise Architecture is the last thing that should be boring. It's your high level plan for the evolution of your organization's technology. What's boring about that?
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Is your enterprise architecture program like Television or Internet?
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Imagine (if you will) that you could say the following about your Enterprise Architecture.
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Do EAs need to understand psychology?
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What lessons can Enterprise Architects take from City Planners?
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How to influence with sound bites.
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Enterprise Architects need to be able to sell themselves. Here are 7 pointers for EAs facing an interview.
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The EA community is still struggling with some very basic questions.
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Enterprise architects are leaders. They're near the top of the technical food chain in any organization. As leaders, there are a lot of people in the organization EAs can help.
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Enterprise Integration has traditionally focused on moving data from one database to another. Recent technology trends have challenged this approach.
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The great minds of Enterprise Architecture are still grappling with some very basic questions.
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Does your city have a sewer system? How about water? The 9 essential services of IT are just as critical for enterprises as water for a city.
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A few rules of thumb for Enterprise Architecture success.
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Hemingway's secrets are ever more relevant in today's information intensive world.
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The balance between loaded words and sounding academic and out of touch.
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What's better than TOGAF's ADM?
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Your Enterprise Architecture questions answered.
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The amazing John Zachman. A 24 year old publication about enterprise architecture that reads as if it was written yesterday.
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When it comes to Enterprise Architecture less is usually more — EA is no place for stretch targets.
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The 90 second version of TOGAF — a popular enterprise architecture framework.
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Imagine your hardcore IT geek talking to a company executive. What would they talk about?
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A bird's eye view of IT Governance.
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Should EA report to the CIO? COO? CFO? CEO? How about the Board of Directors?
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Enterprise Architecture (EA) programs often get current state architectural blueprints all wrong. It's a shame — current state blueprints are essential to architectural success. What's more, they should be easy.
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How games became relevant to every industry.
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Believe it or not — security is the most solid EA value proposition.
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In the not too distance future there are going to be a helluva lot of enterprise architects. There will also be plenty of business architects, security architects, data architects and integration architects. Here's why.
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Do you have what it takes to be a good Enterprise Architect?
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EA software has evolved — very soon it will be unthinkable to run a EA team without a tool.
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Enterprise Architects are not always as friendly as spider man.
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Take a few minutes to learn about the Zachman Framework — a framework for Enterprise Architecture.
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John Zachman is a marketer. Sure, he's also a business and technology visionary who helped to lay the ground work for enterprise architecture as a discipline — but he couldn't have achieved so much without his marketing prowess.
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