Contents tagged with Architecture
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The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - Day 34-36 (Information Architecture)
Although enterprise architecture consider to be based on four domains (Business, Information, Applications and technology) for me the business and information domains are more important to become successful enterprise architect. There aren’t any doubts about the need to understand what is driving the business and what and how the business is reaching (and planning to reach) it strategy. Business architecture is crucial to make sure that IT is really supporting and planned to increase IT’s business support. Information architecture, which is critical for EA success is usually hide as sub domain of application architecture or doesn’t get the right attitude and resources.
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The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - Day 25-32 (Modeling & decentralized organization)
Working for company with different business units locating in different places around the world requires me to pay visits to our offices. In the last 6 days I paid a visit to our office in London and Manchester area (which belong to different business unit). The trip has two goals: to model changes in those offices current architecture and to reach an agreement regarding our target architecture (using the same principles and blueprints)
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The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - day 22 (from business processes to implemented applications)
After spending time on keeping our repository up to date (add new ETRM application and related data flows as well as changing databases to DB clusters), collecting more data for the root cause analysis and spending time for writing proposal to creating new software infrastructure team ( that will help us to clean the table from a pile of problems that just keep on growing due to BAU control over IT dev team resources). I spend time to adapt our EA tool to support a diagram flow from high level business processes to implementation of new applications that will better support the business process. http://www.theeagroup.net/ea/Default.aspx?tabid=1&newsType=ArticleView&articleId=195
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The Enterprise Architect (EA) diary - day 15-20 (IT architecture)
We’re working on IT architecture or more accurate to-be architecture for very long time. After we spend time to model and understand what IT has to offer as well as what the business is doing (and need) to reach company’s goals and objectives, we started to work on the to-be architecture in two phases.