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Mike Walker

Apr 8, 20093 min read

Death by Architecture

Rosen : Quickly create an architectural vision and strategy. It should take about two months to develop this high-level architecture. Use...

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Mike Walker

Apr 2, 20091 min read

Using Sailing as an EA Analogy

In James McGovern’s post Enterprise Architecture and Sailing, he has discovered a great way to articulate the way EA behaves and...

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Mike Walker

Mar 26, 20097 min read

Microsoft Enterprise Architecture Framework?

Your puzzled by the title aren't you? In a recent e-mail discussion the question came up regarding enterprise architecture frameworks....

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Mapping Current State Architectures across the Enterprise

Mike Walker

Mar 11, 20096 min read

Mapping Current State Architectures across the Enterprise

All the time I get the questions about how to do current state architecture or “as-is” architecture at executive briefings (EBC), at...

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Mike Walker

Mar 2, 20093 min read

The Nemesis of Software Architecture

I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine that resulted in some disagreements on root issues architects face. The topic of...

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Mike Walker

Feb 24, 20091 min read

Infosys' Enterprise Architecture Survey 2008 - 2009

Last week Sohel Aziz’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) team at Infosys released there annual EA survey from their very large customer base....

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Mike Walker

Feb 23, 20091 min read

Open Group merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO)

There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture...

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Mike Walker

Feb 9, 20092 min read

Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF) Template

Mike Kavis posted a high level cheat sheet for the Extended Enterprise Architecture Framework (E2AF) on his blog today. Here is the...

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Mike Walker

Feb 6, 20091 min read

10 Misperceptions and challenges of Model Driven Development

Ran across an interesting post from Johan den Haan in which he shares his thoughts on the Top Ten Misperceptions and Challenges of Model...

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Mike Walker

Jan 30, 20097 min read

TOGAF 9 Release and Impressions

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking with Allen Brown, president of the Open Group regarding the latest TOGAF release. Thanks to...

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Mike Walker

Jan 29, 20092 min read

Calgary Offering 1 Day EA Course

The Canadian IT Architecture Connection blog posted about a one day EA course that may be interesting to folks in that area. See below...

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Mike Walker

Jan 21, 20091 min read

Forrester: Leadership in IT Planning and EA Tools Report

If you would like a free version of the report from Forrester Troux is giving away a limited number of copies. See the details below from...

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The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE)

Mike Walker

Jan 21, 20091 min read

The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE)

There is a lot of EA events happening in the next few weeks. The Open Group is having an event that looks to be the most significant in...

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Mike Walker

Jan 20, 20091 min read

Leadership Qualities of an Enterprise Solution Architect

Gabriel Morgan really hit the ball out of the park with his post on Enterprise Solution Architects and Leadership. He did a great job of...

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Mike Walker

Jan 20, 20091 min read

Presentations Uploaded

As followers of my blog know, I do many speaking engagements. Often times I get requests for those decks from the conference or event....

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Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF)

Mike Walker

Jan 17, 20093 min read

Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF)

Another EA framework player emerges in 2009, the Pragmatic Enterprise Architecture Framework (PeaF). I did skim and let me stress that I...

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Is Product Architecture the same as Solution Architecture? NO!

Mike Walker

Jan 6, 20093 min read

Is Product Architecture the same as Solution Architecture? NO!

I had an interesting e-mail thread with some folks here at Microsoft talking about delivering content for architects and thought I would...

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What's Really Going to Make a Difference in Your Transformation - Organizational Change Mgmt.

Mike Walker

Oct 17, 20081 min read

What's Really Going to Make a Difference in Your Transformation - Organizational Change Mgmt.

Obviously, this whitepaper is used as a catalyst to drive services from IBM and I am not supporting that here. However, there is some...

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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 2

Mike Walker

Sep 29, 20084 min read

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2008 - Day 2

I did observe that there was quite the drop-off between day 1 and day 2 for some reason. I am not sure if it was due to work pressures by...

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ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard?

Mike Walker

Sep 26, 20083 min read

ArchiMate - The Emerging Architecture Modeling Standard?

At the Gartner EA Summit in London it seemed like there was quite a bit of talk on the solution showcase floor regarding an architecture...

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