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What it's like to listen to the Father of EA, John Zachman
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...
Mike J. Walker
Oct 11, 20091 min read
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Non-Technical Factors that Lead to Poor Architectures
It is easy for us architects to think that we control the architecture design in it's entirety. But the sad truth is that there are too...
Mike J. Walker
Oct 11, 20093 min read
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Open Group SOA Governance Framework
The Open Group SOA Governance Framework provides context and definitions to enable organizations to understand and deploy SOA Governance....
Mike J. Walker
Sep 19, 20091 min read
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SOA Maturity Models
Over the past week another SOA maturity model emerges. The Open Group SOA Working group released a new maturity matrix (OSIMM) for the...
Mike J. Walker
Sep 19, 20092 min read
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The Top 10 Enterprise Architecture Mistakes
This past week I found a very interesting piece of guidance from the  Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2009. I was planning on...
Mike J. Walker
Sep 13, 20096 min read
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IASA Regional Conference in New York
The IASA IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) will be coming up soon (October 12th 2009) in New York city. IASA has positioned...
Mike J. Walker
Sep 6, 20091 min read
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Updates
I wanted to let everyone know that isn't in my LinkedIn or Twitter networks that I have moved on from the Microsoft Corporation. I have...
Mike J. Walker
Aug 9, 20091 min read
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Journal 20: Architecture in Turbulent Times
Check out the recently released Journal 20: Architecture in Turbulent Times. I know, I am a week or so late with the news... Architecture...
Mike J. Walker
Jul 1, 20091 min read
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Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit, based on BizTalk & SQL Server
Mahesh Punyamurthula provides us details on the new Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit. This is a project that came to fruition after nearly...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 30, 20091 min read
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Survey of Surveys on IT Spend for 2009
Craig Roth posted his analysis in which he combines a multiple sources to come up with the Survey of Surveys on IT spend for 2009. You...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 29, 20092 min read
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CIO Priorities for 2009
The following is review of the top CIO priorities for 2009 as published by CIOInsight (www.cioinsight.com). This is what over 220 IT...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 28, 20091 min read
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The Open Group Offers Enterprise Architecture Tool
Capgemini will release and donated an enterprise architecture tool called the TOGAF Customizer. The goal is to assist enterprises in the...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 28, 20092 min read
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Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit, based on BizTalk & SQL Server
Mahesh Punyamurthula provides us details on the new Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit. This is a project that came to fruition after nearly...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 28, 20091 min read
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Microsoft ESB Toolkit
Microsoft recently released what was formally the ESB Guidance 1.0 and 2.0 is now officially called The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0. There...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 28, 20093 min read
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Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0
The Microsoft patterns & practices team is gearing up for development on the next release of Enterprise Library, Enterprise Library 5.0....
Mike J. Walker
Jun 28, 20094 min read
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MEGA Adapting to Economic Times, Implements Try before you Buy
An interesting move from MEGA where they have created what they call the EA Pilot Program. Essentially they are providing the a shrink...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 19, 20093 min read
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CAEAP just released their Enterprise Architecture Doctrine
The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) just released their Enterprise Architecture Doctrine...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 9, 20091 min read
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The Nation’s CTO Lays Out His Priorities
Saul Hansell from the New York times sat down this week with Aneesh Chopra, the newly confirmed chief technology officer of the United...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 9, 20091 min read
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Application Life Cycle Management Reference Architecture and TFS/Project Server Connector
I am excited to announce the availability of the new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) reference architecture. Ben Chamberlain who...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 8, 20093 min read
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IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF)
Ran across an interesting piece of work out of Intel Corp. The IT Capability Maturity Framework trys to take a stab at a common problem....
Mike J. Walker
Jun 4, 20091 min read
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