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10 EA pitfalls that a real EA implementation might experience by nattYGUR

Doing EA just for the sake of EA : Enterprise architecture is a mean to reach a goal. If you don’t know what is your goal and how you'll use enterprise architecture to reach this goal, you fall into the most common and painful pitfall. There should be...

What needed to be monitored to get better Governance by nattYGUR

Collecting, modeling, validating and analyzing data from different domains to create to-be architecture in a form of principles, standards and blueprints are not enough to create successful enterprise architecture. The real challenge of enterprise architecture...

Communicate highly complex information to a broad audience by nattYGUR

One of the common tasks that enterprise architects are dealing with on a daily basis is the need to explain complex IT issues to different audience, including non IT audience and CxO level. I can find many discussions around this requirement but I can...

Related EA posts of mine by nattYGUR

How to retire (respectfully) legacy systems Information Architecture - The bridge between Business and IT Business Capabilities and Business Strategy Consolidation of CRM solutions Creating IT strategy (with a little help from enterprise architecture...

How to retire (respectfully) legacy systems by nattYGUR

They served us for a long period of time, but (for different reasons that I wont cover in this post) now the time to say good bye and to retire them. Legacy systems exist in each and every enterprise and we all have the experience of retire them. The...

Using Hungarian Cube to demonstrate enterprise architecture by nattYGUR

Those days I'm helping a bank in Thailand to start an enterprise architecture team and practice. As usual I found very technical group that was assigned to do the work. One of the first thing that I tried to do, is to explain them the different between...

Information Architecture - The bridge between Business and IT by nattYGUR

Information is truly the bridge between business and IT. While collecting and modeling business capabilities and business processes we are using information as inputs and outputs for business capabilities and processes. Information architecture is also...

Business Capabilities and Business Strategy by nattYGUR

Every time that I'm writing about business capabilities I'm receiving replays that capabilities won't help me to get business strategy and without business strategy I cant defined the business to-be architecture. In this post I'll try to explain how I...

Using captured EA assets to generate estimated project plan by nattYGUR

One of the tasks while doing EA is to collect relations between different enterprise assets (Roles, Units, Goals, Objectives, Business Capabilities, Information Objects, Entities, Applications, Products, Databases, Technologies, etc'). If the data already...

Consolidation of CRM solutions by nattYGUR

Introduction This white paper demonstrates and discusses solution for fragmented IT, which known as one of the classic IT problems. For demonstrating the problem and solution I chose to use a real life scenario of pharmaceutical IT department. After several...
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