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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....
Mike J. Walker
Feb 24, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 23, 20091 min read
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Massive P&P Compile of Resources for Architects
As some of you may know I aided with the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 materials which will soon be a blue book this upcoming year....
Mike J. Walker
Feb 18, 20095 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 9, 20092 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 6, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 30, 20097 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 29, 20092 min read
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Taking the Data Center to Sea
A interesting post from Michael Bullock talks about Google’s new patient approach to put data centers on ships. This was also covered in...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 29, 20093 min read
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Reducing the Cost of IT
I ran across a good post by Ed Carroll called "Reducing the Cost of Engineering/IT" on the CIO forums. He outlines 4 Areas to Reduce...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 28, 20091 min read
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Two New Walker's Join the World
I am excited to announce a new Microsoft employee product, two new Walker's. On Thursday January 22nd the proud mom and dad (me)...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 26, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 21, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 21, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
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Microsoft's Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects' Perspective
I ran across an interesting post and interview on the MS Data Center Blog on the infrastructure architecture aspects of the new Microsoft...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
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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....
Mike J. Walker
Jan 20, 20091 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 17, 20093 min read
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Azure CTP Released
In this release both the Windows Azure Tools & the SDK was updated Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Windows Azure SDK...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 15, 20091 min read
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Facebook Shakes Things Up
Facebook is the hot new platform to integrate to these days. Yes, I said platform… Facebook isn’t just a MySpace.com clone, but another...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 14, 20092 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jan 6, 20093 min read
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John Doerr gives advice on Economy and advice on first Federal CTO
John Doerr at Web 2.0 Summit - (Credit: CNET Networks / Josh Lowensohn) For those who are concerned about what the economic crisis means...
Mike J. Walker
Nov 6, 20081 min read
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