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Paul Priess wrote an interesting post called The foundation skill set for architects. He also wrote for the Microsoft Architecture...

Chris Potts wrote an insightful post on People versus Models. Chris's article goes into the current challenges in banking and contrasting...

In recent letter from Zachman International they have announced two updates the popular Zachman Framework. They are relatively small....

Loud Sigh who just joined the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Review Board wrote a great post on how to prepare for the review board,...

There is a great article from Nicholas Carr that is worth a read called "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". There is a similar article on the...

Recently I was asked to chime in on how to setup a global enterprise asset roadmap strategy. This was a fully loaded question and also a...

Have you ever tried to compare EA frameworks? How do you compare and are all frameworks the same. The reader digest version of the answer...

For those who didn't get the updates. Here is a summary of the activates at the Open Group Conference in Chicago. The Open Group’s 19th...

For those interested, the 2008 Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) will happen again this year. Each year my team organizes this...

In a recent article on Network World they highlight security issues with the cloud. Jon Brodkin extracts his thoughts from a Gartner...

The Open Group has recently released a draft version of a SOA ontology. They have been developing a formal ontology for SOA for some time...

Great post on Jeff Adkin's blog, Service Oriented Abstraction. As many of you know I have talked about this too (ITIL moving towards EA &...

Well, yes and no. We are hearing more and more about Global EA with the continuing globalization efforts. Mergers and Acquisitions are...

As a new member of the Architecture Journal Board I would like to let everyone that reads my blog that the upcoming Architecture Journal...

Many have asked for source code to the Loan Origination Reference Architecture and now it's on CodePlex. Source Code...

I thought I would write this potentially controversial post about how traditional productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (Word,...

Over the past month there has been a flurry of interest in what is referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK). The last...

An interesting post from Bill Zack on "What topics architects are interested in?". While it doesn't give us the breadth that we would...

I really enjoyed reading the "10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud " post from Stacey Higginbotham. She highlights some...

If you haven't heard or been to the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference your missing out. This is a great conference for architects....