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Mike Walker on Business Architecture, Part 2
In this is Part 2 article, “Walker on Business Architecture” in the Architecture and Governance Magazine , I continue to explore and...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 20, 20134 min read
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Reaching the Pinnacle: A New Enterprise Architecture Book by Sam Holcman
I wanted to share with all of you a new book called, “Reaching the Pinnacle: A Methodology of Business Understanding, Technology...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 20, 20133 min read
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Gartner EA Conference Summary in Top Influential Tweets
I usually don’t post recaps of events in their tweets but since I was unable to do full coverage of the event I have picked out what I...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 6, 20137 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Jun 6, 20131 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
May 30, 20131 min read
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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....
Mike J. Walker
May 29, 20131 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
May 29, 20134 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
May 13, 20132 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
May 9, 20131 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
May 9, 20132 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Apr 17, 20132 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Apr 11, 20133 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Apr 3, 20134 min read
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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,...
Mike J. Walker
Mar 28, 20136 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Mar 27, 20131 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Mar 3, 20132 min read
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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,...
Mike J. Walker
Mar 1, 201313 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 25, 20132 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 17, 20136 min read
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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...
Mike J. Walker
Feb 17, 20131 min read
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