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Practical enterprise architecture

Henrik Gustafsson has written an article on practical approaches to enterprise architecture. To quote:

I was bewildered when I first started working with Enterprise Architecture (EA). To me, so far, the subject had belonged to some strange guys working somewhere in a remote part of the enterprise. Once in a while, a decision or model came in the mail or were posted on the intranet with regards from those guys. Rarely anybody knew how to interpret the much too abstract or detailed directives, and consequently these directives were never followed. If you turned to them for some kind of advice, their advice was always delivered too late or was not applicable to the problem at hand.

The little example above is representative for a common esoteric approach to EA where only the few cult members of the EA team are able to decode or appreciate the runic messages and unworldly divinations. What constitutes a more practical and productive approach? Below are some short statements I once set up to find an alternative approach and EA.

This is a lovely list of common-sense principles for this type of work, all of which is much needed. (I have a similar list of 10 principles of effective information management.)

Posted by jamesr on July 25, 2007 09:49 AM
Categories: Information management