Articles in the Enterprise Architecture Category

EDUCAUSE Live event recording has been posted EDUCAUSE Live event recording has been posted
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Presentations, Work on 16 May 2008

The recording of my EDUCAUSE Live presentation is now available on the EDUCAUSE site. EDUCAUSE Live! IT/EA in Academia recording.

Digital Neighborhoods - Guiding design Digital Neighborhoods - Guiding design
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work, software on 18 April 2008

Digital neighborhoods seem like a powerful tool for discussing technology and its impact on users (students, staff, researchers, etc) and the concept adds interesting new requirements to projects. Getting a good understanding of your users’ digital neighborhoods can guide design and deployment of new technologies and help predict impacts on the users themselves. [...]

Eat your vegis or Have A Little Green Tree - getting EA into the Enterprise Eat your vegis or Have A Little Green Tree - getting EA into the Enterprise
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, Headline, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 17 April 2008

I was thinking about how, when I try to get buy-in for doing Enterprise Architecture as a holistic thing, I tend not get very far with the campus. But, when I parse out little EA bits, they catch on. I was thinking about this in terms of the metaphor: Getting Kids To Eat [...]

EA in Academia Presentation EA in Academia Presentation
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Presentations, TOGAF, The Open Group, Work on 16 April 2008

Below is a repackaged copy of my “Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments” presentation that I gave at EDUCAUSE Mid-West Regional Conference 2008. It is packaged as a Quicktime Movie.
Enterprise Architecture in Academic Environments

Measuring the value of projects
Posted in Academia, Enterprise Architecture, Featured, IT Architecture, ITANA, JimPhelps, Work on 6 February 2008

Jason Uppal of Quickresponse gave a talk on Building Enterprise Architects at the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Summit. He mentioned that Toyota judges project success based on
three corporate objectives:
Profit from the Program
Market Share
Learning
These facets got me thinking about our post project reviews. We tend to measure our projects on whether or not [...]

EA Practitioners - EA Best Practice Management
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, The Open Group, Work on 28 January 2008

Several speakers this afternoon.
Seven Traits of Effective Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Speaker number 1: Mark Denne, Partner, Accenture
Business Alignment - Must define its value in terms of the business measured in the business’ currency. You must show that there are savings when you do EA.

Keynote from EA Practitioners: SOA and EA - in the real world
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, The Open Group, Work on 28 January 2008

David Linthicum of Zapthink is speaking. http://theopengroup.org/sf2008/linthicum.html
Conference materials live at http://www.opengroup.org/conference-live
David Linthicum wrote, “Enterprise Application Integration”
Dysfunctional architectures that are currently deployed have led to enterprise that are locked up and unable to really improve because of the complexity. The activities ahave all be driven by tactical needs not strategic needs.
Enterprise Architecture are raising [...]

Enterprise Architecture as an Academic Study
Posted in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, JimPhelps, The Open Group, Work on 28 January 2008

From the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Francisco.
I had breakfast with David Jackson from Boston university. David is working on building a consortium of business schools who will offer something like an Executive Master’s of Enterprise Architecture degree. This would be similar to Executive MBA programs in that students would [...]