TweetA couple of weeks ago, I attended the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture conference in Toronto (my coverage here), and ended up being invited to speak on Dana Gardner’s panel on how the cloud is pushing the enterprise architects’ role beyond IT into business process optimization. You can now find the podcast here, subscribe to the [...]
TweetI attended my first unconference, commonly referred to as “-camps”, almost 2-1/2 years ago, when I went to Mountain View for MashupCamp, and have attended several since then, including more MashupCamps, BarCamp, TransitCamp, ChangeCamp and DemoCamp. I like the unconference format: although I rarely propose and lead a session, I actively participate, and find that [...]
TweetAfter a quick meeting down the street, I made it back within a few minutes of the start of Dana Gardner’s panel on cloud security, including Glenn Brunette of Sun, Doug Howard of Perimeter eSecurity, Chris Hoff of Cisco, Richard Reiner of Enomaly and Tim Grant of NIST. There was a big discussion about what [...]
TweetI was in a panel here on Monday, hosted by Dana Gardner and also including John Gøtze of the Association of Enterprise Architects, and Tim Westbrock of EAdirections, where we discussed the issues of extending the scope of architecture beyond the enterprise. This was recorded and will be included in Dana’s usual podcast series within [...]
TweetI’ve never attended an Open Group event before, but apparently interactive customer requirements workshops are part of what they do. We’re doing a business scenario workshop to gather requirements for cloud computing, led by Terry Blevins of MITRE, also on the board of the Open Group. The goal is to capture real business requirements, with [...]
TweetAnother flashback to Monday, when Jane Varnus of Bank of Montreal and Navdeep Panaich of Capgemini presented the results of a survey about TOGAF 9. They covered a lot of stats about EAs and their organizations, a few of which I found particularly interesting: Architects form 2-4% of IT staff (the fact that the question [...]
TweetMartin Harris from Platform Computing presented what they’ve learned by implementing cloud computing within large enterprises; he doesn’t see cloud as new technology, but an evolution of what we’re already doing. I would tend to agree: the innovations are in the business models and impacts, not the technology itself. He points out that large enterprises [...]
TweetToday has an track devoted mostly to cloud computing, and we started with Ndu Emuchay of IBM discussing the cloud computing landscape and the importance of standards. IBM is pretty innovative in many areas of new technology – I’ve blogged in the past about their Enterprise 2.0 efforts, and just this morning saw an article [...]
TweetAlso on Monday, we heard from Alain Perry from the CIO branch of the Treasury Board Secretariat on how enterprise architecture, supported by the use of TOGAF, is making its way into the Canadian government at all levels. The EA community of practice is supporting the use of TOGAF 9 in order to enable a [...]
TweetI was taking notes in a paper notebook at the conference on Monday, and only now have had time to review them and write up a summary. The general sessions opened with Allen Brown of the Open Group discussing their own use of TOGAF in architecting their internal systems. Since they’re making a push to [...]
TweetIt’s impossible for me to pass up a standards discussion (how sad is that?), so I switched from the business analysis stream to the SOA stream for Heather Kreger’s discussion of SOA standards at an architectural level. OASIS, the Open Group and OMG got together to talk about some of the overlapping standards impacting this: [...]
TweetRon Tolido of Capgemini presented on the case for an open methodology for business analysis. There’s a big component of standardization here, particularly a shared language (terminology, not necessarily natural language) to enable collaboration. He considers the core competencies of business analysis to be information analysis, subject matter expertise and business process management, there’s also [...]
TweetKathleen Barret of the International Institute of Business Analysis discussed how the role of Business Analyst moved from assistant Project Manager and scribe to the focal point for understanding and articulating the business need for a solution or change. She started by talking about why there is such a strong case now for business analysts. [...]
TweetFoote presented some interesting – but for this primarily Canadian audience, not completely relevant – statistics on US unemployment; he added the comment “I assume it’s the same in Canada”. Would have been good if he had actually taken 5 minutes to research our job market before presenting here, because there are some significant differences, [...]
TweetI still haven’t posted my notes from yesterday – I made the mistake of not bringing my laptop yesterday, and my notes are trapped in my paper notebook until I get a chance to review and transcribe them. I only caught the last 10 minutes of Minaz Sarangi’s presentation due to a meeting elsewhere, but [...]
