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The Architecture Guidance Team (AGT) is chartered to provide direction and advisory support on architectural practices, patterns, and standards.

In my last post I talked about the definition of an Architecture Review Board (ARB), let’s talk now about what it means to create one. As...

An Architecture Review Board (ARB) is responsible for validating, recommending, and approving solutions supporting the business that meet a defined criteria, executed through a set of processes to manage outcomes, exceptions, and all decisions that will be in turn cataloged to support future decision making. Realized through the ARB, is the alignment to the strategic goals of the company. Adherence to the company’s principles, policies, standards, and the defined industry pro

Troux has posted the latest Gartner EA Tools Magic Quadrant for download for free. You can download it here: http://www.troux.com/news/ga...

IASA has released another competing architecture certification to the industry. IASA has spent 7 years developing this program with...

Alex Cullen from Forrester posted a good article called Identifying The Technologies That Will Matter. Over the coming months, Forrester...

Yesterday Oracle annonced their EA framework at Open World 2009. Wow, where do we start here? This could be such a big topic. Let's start...

I have seen John Zachman present a hand full of times but never got a chance to write about it. Well Robin Meehan wrote a great post...

The Open Group SOA Governance Framework provides context and definitions to enable organizations to understand and deploy SOA Governance....

Over the past week another SOA maturity model emerges. The Open Group SOA Working group released a new maturity matrix (OSIMM) for the...

This past week I found a very interesting piece of guidance from the  Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2009. I was planning on...

Excellent write-up from Serge Thorn on how IT Architecture (Solution Architecture) is not Enterprise Architecture. One of the key areas I...

It’s official, ArchiMate version 1.0 under the control of the Open Group will be released at the London event in a week. It looks like...

Reuse and Extensibility Through Frameworks, Phanish Chandra, Member IASA Editorial Board One of the goals of software development for...

One common problem I see in the IT industry is the qualification of IT decisions. I talk to architects from all around the world and hear...

In the post from Mohan Babu entitled EA - Enterprise Architecture or Extreme Aggravation: Observations and musings on Enterprise...

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Serge Thorn posted a poll on LinkedIn for companies to chime in on what EA frameworks they use. For those of you that use one of the...

To be fair, here is the Gartner piece on Enterprise Architecture Tools for 2009, EA Magic Quadrant and Cool Vendors in Enterprise...

Interesting webcast from the security architect from Intel. While security isn’t talked about in depth, there are some nuggets that are...