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Open Group Announces Risk Analysts Certification

Mike Walker

Jun 6, 20131 min read

Open Group Announces Risk Analysts Certification

What I find in my Enterprise Architecture travels as both a practitioner and advisor is that risk management is an essential capability...

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Mike Walker

May 30, 20131 min read

Mike Walker Publishing on CIO.com and HP Discover Performance Blogs

Some of you may of noticed from a few of my tweets recently that my posts were coming from a few different sources. This wasn’t a mistake...

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A Different Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference in 2013

Mike Walker

May 29, 20131 min read

A Different Open Group Enterprise Architecture Conference in 2013

This year the Open Group is doing something very different with their conference from previous years, they are verticalizing. Smart move....

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Recapping the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2013

Mike Walker

May 29, 20134 min read

Recapping the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2013

It has been a few years since I have attended this event but this year I had the great opportunity to go to the Gartner Enterprise...

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Intersections Between TOGAF and SABSA Standards

Mike Walker

May 13, 20132 min read

Intersections Between TOGAF and SABSA Standards

This is a known issue within the Open Group. Given this, the TOGAF-SABSA Integration project started in May 2010 as a joint initiative of...

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Mike Walker

May 9, 20131 min read

2013 Conferences Mike Walker will be Attending

For those conference goers out there I wanted to let you all know that I will be at a few US based conferences this year. There may be a...

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The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business

Mike Walker

May 9, 20132 min read

The Business Model Canvas: Know Thy Business

So the question is, do we really know our business before we make architecture decisions? What tools do we use or don’t use to understand...

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Mike Walker

Apr 17, 20132 min read

Mike Walker has Joined Hewlett-Packard

As I was evaluating HP I didn’t fully appreciate HP’s status in the world of IT. I suppose I just thought of some of the acquisitions and...

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EA Practitioners Have Significant Influence on $1.1 Trillion in Enterprise IT Spend

Mike Walker

Apr 11, 20133 min read

EA Practitioners Have Significant Influence on $1.1 Trillion in Enterprise IT Spend

Gartner just released a report entitled, "EA Practitioners Have Significant Influence on $1.1 Trillion in Enterprise IT Spend” that...

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TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Certification is Weak

Mike Walker

Apr 3, 20134 min read

TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Certification is Weak

Continuing on with our demystification series, I will talk about the comments I hear from people with regards to the TOGAF certification...

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Dave Hornford Addresses Misconceptions Surrounding TOGAF

Mike Walker

Mar 28, 20136 min read

Dave Hornford Addresses Misconceptions Surrounding TOGAF

I have gotten a surprising (or maybe not so surprising) discussion on the TOGAF Demystification Series. In one of the posts entitled,...

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EA Effectiveness Series: Highly Impactful EA Organizations Make Value Driven Decisions

Mike Walker

Mar 27, 20131 min read

EA Effectiveness Series: Highly Impactful EA Organizations Make Value Driven Decisions

A big thank you to all the folks that came to my presentation at the Troux World Conference last week. We had a full room of enterprise...

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Mike Walker

Mar 3, 20132 min read

Come See Mike Walker Speak on the EA Industry Expert Panel and Present at the Troux Conference 2013

The Troux Worldwide Conference is returning to Austin, Texas on March 19-20, 2013. If you are a Troux customer, partner, or actively...

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EA Panel on Big Data and Cloud Trends Enabled by ArchiMate and TOGAF

Mike Walker

Mar 1, 201313 min read

EA Panel on Big Data and Cloud Trends Enabled by ArchiMate and TOGAF

I had had the pleasure of being on a panel of Enterprise Architecture (EA) experts at The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach,...

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Mike Walker

Feb 25, 20132 min read

Open CA Gets Top Pay in Enterprise Architecture Certifications

As I was doing some market research for my EA's competency driven strategy I ran across an interesting article from late 2012 that...

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TOGAF Demystification Series: The Truth behind the TOGAF Standard Creation

Mike Walker

Feb 17, 20136 min read

TOGAF Demystification Series: The Truth behind the TOGAF Standard Creation

I've only heard this one a few times but since this myth was recently referenced in one of the comments of the post, "TOGAF...

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Mike Walker

Feb 17, 20131 min read

Big Data's Big Impact on Enterprise IT-- The Open Group Panel Discussion

Today @Dana_Gardner posted on twitter The Open Group Panel discussion on Big Data's Big Impact on Enterprise IT. It worth a watch as it...

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My Architecture & Governance Magizine Article: Business Architecture & Best Practices

Mike Walker

Feb 15, 20131 min read

My Architecture & Governance Magizine Article: Business Architecture & Best Practices

The new issue of Architecture and Governance Magazine is out. This issues is centered around the Business Architecture practice with...

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TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Doesn't Play Well With Others

Mike Walker

Feb 11, 20133 min read

TOGAF Demystification Series: TOGAF Doesn't Play Well With Others

In this post in the TOGAF demystification series I will talk about how well or not so well TOGAF plays with other frameworks in the...

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TOGAF Demystification Series: Comparing TOGAF to Other Frameworks

Mike Walker

Feb 10, 20136 min read

TOGAF Demystification Series: Comparing TOGAF to Other Frameworks

For the second post in the TOGAF Demystification series, let's tackle the common topic of TOGAF to other frameworks. Over the years I've...

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