Category Archives: EnterpriseArchitecture

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If in doubt leave it out – 10 Golden Rules of Enterprise Architecture

Posted on July 6, 2015 by kvoges

10 Golden Rules of Enterprise Architecture Modeling – If in doubt, leave it out Continue reading →

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How to build your corporate EA Function inspired by Google’s Design function

Posted on November 18, 2013 by kvoges

How Google built their central design function (known as UXA – User Experience Alliance) can be a lesson and guidance on how to built a central EnterpriseArchitects function. This dawned on my reading the great Fast Company article about how design finally made … Continue reading →

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What your EA Stakeholders do not care about

Posted on September 19, 2013 by kvoges

This is a list of things your EA Stakeholders do not care about. I always have to retell myself as well as tell clients: Business doesn’t care how clean your IT architecture is. Your stakeholders don’t care how long you … Continue reading →

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Lean Startup Challenge – Accepted

Posted on September 17, 2013 by kvoges

My application to Lean Startup Challenge got accepted! So the next six weeks will be super busy, but I am glad that my concept of enterprise social graph is getting traction and I am looking forward to test it the lean … Continue reading →

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Relationship based visualizations in EA

Posted on August 31, 2013 by kvoges

Why are clusters, graphs and other relations so popular in EA? Very common in Enterprise Architecture are relationship based visualizations. This is in contrast to many other management disciplines. Most other management visualizations often come down to some sort of … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Architecture is like Going Green

Posted on August 27, 2013 by kvoges

Starting with Enterprise Architecture is like Going Green: You will replace things that are working – but the replacement is better You will change gradually – as interdependencies are HUGE It is a long term commitment – maybe with some … Continue reading →

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EA Visualization – Roadmap/Gantt Chart/Life-Cycle

Posted on August 22, 2013 by kvoges

A popular visualization within Enterprise Architecture is the Roadmap or Gantt Chart. Sometimes also called a Masterplan or Timeline. The roadmap diagram presents a timeline showing periods and status information of e.g. applications, projects, servers or business units. Sometimes the … Continue reading →

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The power of visualizations in Enterprise Architecture

Posted on August 21, 2013 by kvoges

The central drivers for Enterprise Architecture Management are the goals and areas of concern of your stakeholders. Valuable tools for answering stakeholder questions are visualizations and reports. Visualizations allow you to see different information combined in one view, often much quicker … Continue reading →

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Alignment in the EA Tool Market

Posted on April 26, 2011 by kvoges

Inspired from Seth’s Blog: Alignment: Seth Godin made me think about the alignment of iteraplan – the OpenSource EA Tool and the rest of EA Tools in the market. So here are my thoughts on it – the good side: … Continue reading →

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Book-Review: Rework from 37signals

Posted on August 3, 2010 by kvoges

The people from 37signals are well known shooting stars in the startup world. Their blogposts are often worth a read and their products pretty well hit the sweet spot. Their latest byproduct is the book Rework. It is a great … Continue reading →

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