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Contrasting Solution Architecture with other Architecture Roles

Mike Walker

May 14, 20081 min read

Contrasting Solution Architecture with other Architecture Roles

I ran across this great post that takes a stab at contrasting the various architecture roles. I think Karthik Vijayakumar does a good job...

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Enterprises are Embracing Architecture Certifications

Mike Walker

May 12, 20082 min read

Enterprises are Embracing Architecture Certifications

I just ran across an article from the IASA organization that was released late last month called "IASA Announces SunTrust Bank as...

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Surfacing a Metadata Repository in SharePoint 2007

Mike Walker

May 1, 20081 min read

Surfacing a Metadata Repository in SharePoint 2007

If you are a SharePoint 2007 shop or thinking about becoming one check out this article on how a Microsoft Partner called Provoke built a...

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Mike Walker

Apr 30, 20083 min read

Should We Continue to Invest in Enterprise Architecture?

http://weblog.infoworld.com/realworldsoa/archives/2008/04/should_we_conti.html Check out this post as it is a good read to at the very...

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Top EA Challenges Are People and Business Issues

Mike Walker

Apr 16, 20085 min read

Top EA Challenges Are People and Business Issues

At the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Foundation Seminar in Chicago (3 and 4 March 2008), Gartner asked the more than 55 participants to...

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Mike Walker

Apr 16, 20084 min read

Making Sense of Architecture Standards

Yesterday I attended the Architecture track at the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Summit. The format was quite different than...

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Mike Walker

Apr 15, 20081 min read

Japan's Largest Publisher talks about the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK)

Sorry, this is only in Japanese. However you can try out the new Live Translator Service to view the page in Jap-Glish....

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Japan Strategic Architecture Forum - Enterprise Architecture Toolkit Launch!

Mike Walker

Apr 14, 20082 min read

Japan Strategic Architecture Forum - Enterprise Architecture Toolkit Launch!

So I am a little late with this content... But I have a good excuse :) The post is a bit delayed as there has been very limited internet...

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Japan Strategic Architecture Forum - Day 1

Mike Walker

Apr 9, 20082 min read

Japan Strategic Architecture Forum - Day 1

Today was the first day of the of the Japan Strategic Architecture Forum (SAF). So far there have been some great sessions. We will also...

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Mike Walker

Mar 24, 20081 min read

Japan Strategic Architecture Forum

Hello everybody! For those of you that read my blog and will just so happen to be in Japan for the Strategic Architecture Forum on the...

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) Relationship to Application Portfolio Management (APM)

Mike Walker

Feb 24, 20087 min read

Enterprise Architecture (EA) Relationship to Application Portfolio Management (APM)

The Enterprise Architecture space is littered with tools that are either address niche areas or just provide high level coverage of EA. I...

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Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference 2008 - Day 3

Mike Walker

Jan 30, 20082 min read

Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference 2008 - Day 3

Keynotes Unfortunately I missed a good portion of the first keynote and then had other business that needed to be taken care of at the...

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Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference 2008 - Day 2

Mike Walker

Jan 29, 20083 min read

Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference 2008 - Day 2

First, a big thanks to everyone that attended my session yesterday. It was a great crowd, even though I was the last presentation of the...

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Mike Walker

Jan 28, 20083 min read

Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference - Day 1

I thought I would share with you a few of my notes from the Open Group conference. I have also added some of my thoughts on the topics.I...

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Article: Integration of Enterprise Architecture and Application Portfolio Management

Mike Walker

Nov 29, 20071 min read

Article: Integration of Enterprise Architecture and Application Portfolio Management

Published today is the new MSDN article that I have written for the Application Portfolio Management space. This primer will walk...

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Is there too much talk about EA Process?

Mike Walker

Nov 12, 20071 min read

Is there too much talk about EA Process?

James McGovern writes an interesting post about how he feels that the Enterprise Architecture blogosphere is talking way too much about...

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Software Factories Approaches

Mike Walker

Nov 9, 20071 min read

Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Software Factories Approaches

James McGovern writes an interesting post worth taking a look at called Enterprise Architecture: Can you build software using the factory...

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Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility

Mike Walker

Nov 9, 20074 min read

Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility

I ran across a great post by Dave Linthicum called Why Enterprise Architecture is a Corporate Responsibility. He made some very good...

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Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect

Mike Walker

Nov 1, 20072 min read

Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect

Sorry for the delay on this, there has been a lot of e-mails asking where this was at and if it was going to happen. The "Day in the Life...

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Review: Evaluating Enterprise Architecture Processes

Mike Walker

Oct 15, 20072 min read

Review: Evaluating Enterprise Architecture Processes

From a recent post from Robert Mcllree he talks about the evaluation of EA. He breaks down the evaluation into a set of factors. When I...

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