Architect Role Taxonomy
Paul Priess wrote an interesting post called The foundation skill set for architects. He also wrote for the Microsoft Architecture...
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Mike Walker
Aug 21, 20081 min read
The model or the people?
Chris Potts wrote an insightful post on People versus Models. Chris's article goes into the current challenges in banking and contrasting...
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Mike Walker
Aug 19, 20082 min read
John Zachman Provides Updates to His Popular Framework
In recent letter from Zachman International they have announced two updates the popular Zachman Framework. They are relatively small....
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Mike Walker
Aug 14, 20081 min read
The Microsoft Certified Architect Board Member Unravels the Process
Loud Sigh who just joined the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Review Board wrote a great post on how to prepare for the review board,...
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Mike Walker
Jul 29, 20081 min read
Is the pervasiveness of information making us stupid?
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...
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Mike Walker
Jul 28, 20083 min read
Creating a Enterprise Asset Roadmap Strategy
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...
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Mike Walker
Jul 27, 20083 min read
Can you Easily Compare EA Frameworks?
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...
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Mike Walker
Jul 23, 20084 min read
19th Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference: Day 1 Highlights
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...
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Mike Walker
Jul 16, 20081 min read
Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum 2008
For those interested, the 2008 Microsoft Strategic Architect Forum (SAF) will happen again this year. Each year my team organizes this...
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Mike Walker
Jul 14, 20082 min read
Seven Cloud-Computing Security Risks
In a recent article on Network World they highlight security issues with the cloud. Jon Brodkin extracts his thoughts from a Gartner...
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Mike Walker
Jul 11, 20081 min read
Open Group SOA Ontology
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...
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Mike Walker
Jul 11, 20081 min read
Is Enterprise Architecture (EA) and ITIL Getting Closer Aligned?
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 &...
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Mike Walker
Jul 11, 20083 min read
What is Global Enterprise Architecture?
Well, yes and no. We are hearing more and more about Global EA with the continuing globalization efforts. Mergers and Acquisitions are...
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Mike Walker
Jul 10, 20081 min read
Microsoft Architecture Journal Issue 17
As a new member of the Architecture Journal Board I would like to let everyone that reads my blog that the upcoming Architecture Journal...
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Mike Walker
Jul 9, 20081 min read
Loan Origination Reference Architecture v.2.0 Source
Many have asked for source code to the Loan Origination Reference Architecture and now it's on CodePlex. Source Code...
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Mike Walker
Jul 8, 20083 min read
Do Office Tools Still Play a Role in Architecture Design?
I thought I would write this potentially controversial post about how traditional productivity tools such as Microsoft Office (Word,...
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Mike Walker
Jul 7, 20083 min read
The Enterprise Architecture Toolkit
Over the past month there has been a flurry of interest in what is referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit (EATK). The last...
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Mike Walker
Jul 7, 20082 min read
Architect Survey at IASA NYC
An interesting post from Bill Zack on "What topics architects are interested in?". While it doesn't give us the breadth that we would...
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Mike Walker
Jul 7, 20084 min read
Challenges moving to the Cloud
I really enjoyed reading the "10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud " post from Stacey Higginbotham. She highlights some...
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Mike Walker
Jul 2, 20081 min read
Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 Presentations
If you haven't heard or been to the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference your missing out. This is a great conference for architects....
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