Keynote from Australasian Enterprise Architecture Conference, Sydney, 19 October 2015
http://enterprisearchitectureconference.com.au/
What is it that makes an enterprise into an enterprise? The answer is a story…
Most current approaches to enterprise-architecture start from technology – which works well enough if you are only working on the technology itself. But as enterprise-architecture expands outward into the business, or we need to work on ‘digital transformation’ where people and their needs necessarily come to the fore, a technology centred approach starts to show its limitations.
This lively session introduces a complementary, more people-oriented approach to enterprise-architecture, built around a concept of ‘the enterprise as story’. We’ll explore:
• what story is, in the context for enterprise-architecture
• how story acts as a unifying theme for the architecture
• how to identify and develop the enterprise-story
• how story underlies enterprise values and principles
• how story provides guidance and governance for information-architecture, technology-architecture, digital-transformation and service-design
After this session, you’ll see your architecture with new eyes – open to new possibilities and new ways to engage with all of your stakeholders in the broader business. Share and Enjoy!
Value analysis with Value Stream and Capability modelingCOMPETENSIS
The new Archimate 3.1 has improved the strategy layer with major modeling objects related to value analysis: value stream and capability.
These objects are linked and answer major questions :
- [VALUE STREAM] What value do we deliver to customers ? What value do we want to deliver to customers ? This is the enterprise business model.
- [CAPABILITY] What operational model do we need to deliver value ? The capability model describes the operational model required to deliver value to customers.
You cannot succeed to transform a business model, enterprise activities without considering Value Stream & Capability analysis. Technology considerations are necessary but not sufficient.
Feel free to contact if you wish to get more support with your transformation projet.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
As we head into a new year, one thing is for sure, the world of technology and IT will continue to evolve and be disrupted at a frightening pace. The role of the modern IT organisation will thus need to adapt and be agile in order to keep pace with this changing landscape and to continue to be valuable to the organisations that they service. As IT estates become more complex, internal IT functions will need to become more mature and efficient in the way they operate in order to be perceived as a valued asset to the business. The release of IT4IT at the end of last year provides an interesting and potentially highly valuable reference architecture for IT organisations to use to help achieve this level of maturity and efficiency.
The IT4IT standard has really started to pick up momentum as we start 2016 and it is great to see the increase in the membership of the IT4IT forum as well as the general interest that is being seen in the industry for this new standard. I recently co-presented a webinar in collaboration with the Open Group where we looked at the potential real-world application and benefits that IT4IT can offer. Mandate and mindset will be critical to the successful use of IT4IT but I am confident that this approach has the potential to be very beneficial for many organisations as the role of the IT function continues to be redefined.
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
Value analysis with Value Stream and Capability modelingCOMPETENSIS
The new Archimate 3.1 has improved the strategy layer with major modeling objects related to value analysis: value stream and capability.
These objects are linked and answer major questions :
- [VALUE STREAM] What value do we deliver to customers ? What value do we want to deliver to customers ? This is the enterprise business model.
- [CAPABILITY] What operational model do we need to deliver value ? The capability model describes the operational model required to deliver value to customers.
You cannot succeed to transform a business model, enterprise activities without considering Value Stream & Capability analysis. Technology considerations are necessary but not sufficient.
Feel free to contact if you wish to get more support with your transformation projet.
The TOGAF® Architecture Development Method recommends that "an architecture description be encoded in a standard language". As the Open Group standard for enterprise modeling, Archimate is a strong candidate for this role. This presentation will explore how a diversified financial services company selected and is using Archimate for its TOGAF® implementation. The speaker will compare available enterprise modeling languages and explain why Archimate was selected, and will explain how his organization developed an enabling metamodel and diagram templates using a leading enterprise modeling tool. Methodology transition will also be covered, including how existing diagram types were mapped to TOGAF®, and how TOGAF® diagram content was mapped to Archimate.
Delivered at February 2011 Open Group San Diego Conference
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
As we head into a new year, one thing is for sure, the world of technology and IT will continue to evolve and be disrupted at a frightening pace. The role of the modern IT organisation will thus need to adapt and be agile in order to keep pace with this changing landscape and to continue to be valuable to the organisations that they service. As IT estates become more complex, internal IT functions will need to become more mature and efficient in the way they operate in order to be perceived as a valued asset to the business. The release of IT4IT at the end of last year provides an interesting and potentially highly valuable reference architecture for IT organisations to use to help achieve this level of maturity and efficiency.
The IT4IT standard has really started to pick up momentum as we start 2016 and it is great to see the increase in the membership of the IT4IT forum as well as the general interest that is being seen in the industry for this new standard. I recently co-presented a webinar in collaboration with the Open Group where we looked at the potential real-world application and benefits that IT4IT can offer. Mandate and mindset will be critical to the successful use of IT4IT but I am confident that this approach has the potential to be very beneficial for many organisations as the role of the IT function continues to be redefined.
An overview of The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture. It is a vendor and product-agnostic value chain-based operating model for managing the business of IT. While providing guidance on the design, procurement and implementation of the functionality needed to run IT, it also enables the systematic tracking of the state of IT services across the service life-cycle using four value streams - Strategy to Portfolio, Request to Fulfill, Requirement to Deploy, and Detect to Correct.
Download presentation from http://opengroup.co.za/presentations
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Platform Strategy to Deliver Digital Experiences on AzureWSO2
This slide deck introduces Choreo, a cloud native internal developer platform by Microsoft independent software vendor (ISV) Partner, WSO2. It enables your developers to create, deploy, and run new digital components like APIs, microservices, and integrations in serverless mode on any Kubernetes cluster with built-in DevSecOps.
Recording: https://wso2.com/choreo/resources/webinar/platform-strategy-to-deliver-digital-experiences-on-azure/
Presentation for the IASA January 2016 eSummit on business-architecture - see http://iasaglobal.org/monthly-esummit/
Exploring the context of business-architecture: upwards to the big-picture, downwards to implementation, sideways to connections and qualities, and avoiding design-mistakes that take us backward to business-models that really don't work...
(subtitle: Extending enterprise architecture beyond IT)
This presentation (in Notes View, to show slides and script) reviews some of the themes needed to break out enterprise architecture from the usual IT-centric constraints, as represented by most of the existing EA frameworks and toolsets.
[Core content copyright (c) Tetradian 2007; other copyrights and trademarks as indicated]
In this presentation Bruno Vandenborre, The Open Group accredited trainer at Real IRM, explores the purpose and utility of the new version of the ArchiMate standard. As well as a look at the updates and changes to the new version, he discusses the various responses and critiques to ArchiMate, and provide insight into how ArchiMate benefits the South African market.
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
What Can We Do With The ArchiMate Language?Iver Band
Last year, the Open Group released version 3.0 of the ArchiMate® standard, which provides a language with concepts for describing enterprise and solution architectures, a framework for organizing these concepts, a graphical notation for these concepts, and recommendations for viewpoints, which are visualization templates that address the concerns of particular stakeholders. The standard is public and free for end users. It can be extended through specialization of its concepts and relationships, and is supported by an increasing number of tools, consultancies and training organizations.
We use a fictitious—but realistic—case study to describe what we can do with the ArchiMate language. Each of the sections in this article presents one or more views of an ArchiMate model that tells a story about the collection and analysis of Big Data to create business value. Big Data consists of datasets that cannot be handled efficiently with traditional centralized data architectures due to their extensive volume, variety, velocity and variability. These characteristics demand scalable architectures for efficient storage, manipulation and analysis.
Target architecture: Overcoming barriers to effective Enterprise ArchitectureDave Hornford
Target architecture, and the resulting roadmap, is the fast path to effective business engagement. Change leaders are looking for help in effecting transformation. Dave will explore the real and self-imposed barriers to developing Target Architecture. Why most ‘Targets’ look more like a first Transition Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
2019 07 Bizbok with Archimate 3 v3 [UPDATED !]COMPETENSIS
ARCHIMATE & BIZBOK templates
Here is an interpretation on how to implement the BIZBOK recommendation with Archimate 3.
This is an update of the previous documents published in 2018 and 2017.
Any comments or requirements to chdessus@competensis.com
Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Arch...Iver Band
The difficulty of strategy execution should not be underestimated
Capability-based planning helps make strategy concrete
Enterprise architecture closes the remainder of this gap, and ensures alignment and coherence
Enterprise portfolio management allows managing large enterprise landscapes based on business value
ArchiMate models tie it all together, providing a clear line of sight from strategy definition to realization
Powerful tool support makes this a strong combination!
Slide-deck from talk at BAEA EA Cafe, Heverlee, Belgium, 26 September 2013
Where do people fit within enterprise-architecture? This slidedeck explores why we need to include people-issues and people-themes in our EA, and gives a set of practical exercises on how to do this, using standard EA methods.
ValueFlowIT: A new IT Operating Model EmergesDavid Favelle
ValueFlow IT has synthesised the old and the new of IT management frameworks into a multi-speed operating model. This accommodates the different pace layers (thanks Gartner) of the portfolio and tunes the IT organisational structures processes and tools.
Platform Strategy to Deliver Digital Experiences on AzureWSO2
This slide deck introduces Choreo, a cloud native internal developer platform by Microsoft independent software vendor (ISV) Partner, WSO2. It enables your developers to create, deploy, and run new digital components like APIs, microservices, and integrations in serverless mode on any Kubernetes cluster with built-in DevSecOps.
Recording: https://wso2.com/choreo/resources/webinar/platform-strategy-to-deliver-digital-experiences-on-azure/
Presentation for the IASA January 2016 eSummit on business-architecture - see http://iasaglobal.org/monthly-esummit/
Exploring the context of business-architecture: upwards to the big-picture, downwards to implementation, sideways to connections and qualities, and avoiding design-mistakes that take us backward to business-models that really don't work...
(subtitle: Extending enterprise architecture beyond IT)
This presentation (in Notes View, to show slides and script) reviews some of the themes needed to break out enterprise architecture from the usual IT-centric constraints, as represented by most of the existing EA frameworks and toolsets.
[Core content copyright (c) Tetradian 2007; other copyrights and trademarks as indicated]
In this presentation Bruno Vandenborre, The Open Group accredited trainer at Real IRM, explores the purpose and utility of the new version of the ArchiMate standard. As well as a look at the updates and changes to the new version, he discusses the various responses and critiques to ArchiMate, and provide insight into how ArchiMate benefits the South African market.
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
What Can We Do With The ArchiMate Language?Iver Band
Last year, the Open Group released version 3.0 of the ArchiMate® standard, which provides a language with concepts for describing enterprise and solution architectures, a framework for organizing these concepts, a graphical notation for these concepts, and recommendations for viewpoints, which are visualization templates that address the concerns of particular stakeholders. The standard is public and free for end users. It can be extended through specialization of its concepts and relationships, and is supported by an increasing number of tools, consultancies and training organizations.
We use a fictitious—but realistic—case study to describe what we can do with the ArchiMate language. Each of the sections in this article presents one or more views of an ArchiMate model that tells a story about the collection and analysis of Big Data to create business value. Big Data consists of datasets that cannot be handled efficiently with traditional centralized data architectures due to their extensive volume, variety, velocity and variability. These characteristics demand scalable architectures for efficient storage, manipulation and analysis.
Target architecture: Overcoming barriers to effective Enterprise ArchitectureDave Hornford
Target architecture, and the resulting roadmap, is the fast path to effective business engagement. Change leaders are looking for help in effecting transformation. Dave will explore the real and self-imposed barriers to developing Target Architecture. Why most ‘Targets’ look more like a first Transition Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture vs. Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides a visual blueprint of the organization, and shows key interrelationships between data, process, applications, and more. By abstracting these assets in a graphical view, it’s possible to see key interrelationships, particularly as they relate to data and its business impact across the organization. Join us for a discussion on how Data Architecture is a key component of an overall Enterprise Architecture for enhanced business value and success.
2019 07 Bizbok with Archimate 3 v3 [UPDATED !]COMPETENSIS
ARCHIMATE & BIZBOK templates
Here is an interpretation on how to implement the BIZBOK recommendation with Archimate 3.
This is an update of the previous documents published in 2018 and 2017.
Any comments or requirements to chdessus@competensis.com
Effective Strategy Execution with Capability-Based Planning, Enterprise Arch...Iver Band
The difficulty of strategy execution should not be underestimated
Capability-based planning helps make strategy concrete
Enterprise architecture closes the remainder of this gap, and ensures alignment and coherence
Enterprise portfolio management allows managing large enterprise landscapes based on business value
ArchiMate models tie it all together, providing a clear line of sight from strategy definition to realization
Powerful tool support makes this a strong combination!
Slide-deck from talk at BAEA EA Cafe, Heverlee, Belgium, 26 September 2013
Where do people fit within enterprise-architecture? This slidedeck explores why we need to include people-issues and people-themes in our EA, and gives a set of practical exercises on how to do this, using standard EA methods.
Attracting, retaining and getting the best from your architectsTetradian Consulting
Meetup sessions at x:pand Melbourne and x:pand Sydney, October 2015
(hosted by x:pand and Australasian Architecture Network)
The Australasian Architecture Network has hosted a number of recent meet ups aimed at educating talented people across a range of new technologies and technical areas. This time we’re looking at something much more important, the people. In particular it will focus on how you can get the best from the Architects in your business and how they can deliver the best results to you.
It will look at the age old debate which always exists in this field between art and science, the creative vs. the coder. What types of projects require what types of people and how do you get the best results from such a diverse range of individuals.
A 'mini-workshop' on insights from current developments and practice in enterprise-architecture (BCS-EA conference, London, October 2012)
The main part of the presentation is split into eight 'chunks', each tackling a single 'lesson-learnt' from trying to explain EA themes to others in real-world EA practice. Each 'chunk' is timed as around two minutes of background and overview (the bulk of the slides, between the respective 'Challenge' and 'Practice'), and then four minutes pair-discussion around the questions summarised on the respective 'Practice' slide. With two minutes at the start for overall lead-in, and ten minutes at the end for general discussion about what came up for participants during the Practice sections, this fits exactly into a one-hour time-slot.
(See http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/lessonslearnt-in-ea-articulation-worksheet for the associated worksheet.)
How do we explore the context for a business-architecture? Short-answer: raid the kids' toy-box!
This slidedeck provides a practical overview of how to explore and identify service-context or business-context, whilst developing a business-architecture. The key theme here is that it's easier to engage people in architecture-development if we make it both fun and thought-provoking, in an immediate, tangible way. As shown in the slidedeck, tools to do this include a wooden train-set and a Victorian toy-theatre - cheap, easily-obtainable and directly practical. Share And Enjoy!
Slidedeck for presentation at IASA-ITARC conference, London, 25 November 2016 - http://iasaglobal.org/itarc-london/
(Note: This is a big slidedeck - almost 75Mb. It'll take some time to download. But worth it, I trust!)
Serving the story: how process-management and enterprise-architecture work together in the overall enterprise.
Presentation and practical-exercises for BPM Portugal conference, April 2013.
Slidedeck from Conferenz IT&EA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 2016; also an extended version of slidedeck for IASA Architecture Summit, Dublin, Ireland, July 2016
This provides an overview of whole-enterprise architecture, and how it differs from and extends classic IT-centric 'enterprise'-architecture. It also provides a practical overview of methods, including three worked-examples.
My presentation for Open Group London #ogLON enterprise-architecture conference, October 2013
Classic enterprise-architectures seem to focus mainly on IT and replicable IT-based processes. By contrast, many business-contexts such as healthcare, recruitment, education, customer-service and retail, all need to emphasise 'mass-uniqueness' - individual difference or uniqueness at scale. This slidedeck explores some of the themes and techniques that can be used to develop enterprise-architectures with appropriate balance between 'same' and 'different'.
Disintegrated EA? - how to fight against fragmentation of the architecture
What are the factors that cause fragmentation of an enterprise-architecture? And what can we do about them? Focussing more on the human-factors in enterprise-architecture, this presentation explores a set of meta-disciplines that can be used to guide EA practice - and 'Seven Sins of Dubious Discipline' that can lead us astray!
Presentation at Integrated-EA 2016, London, 2 March 2016
Integrated-EA http://www.integrated-ea.com/ is a conference on enterprise-architecture in Defence and related contexts - hence the military flavour of some of the content and visual-jokes in the slidedeck.
(In case the number of slides here causes you some concern: yes, it's almost 200 slides, but it's fast-paced - it all fits into a 30-minute conference-slot.)
Session for IASA ITARC Conference on digital-transformation, London, 26 May 2017: https://www.iasaglobal.org/itarc-london-may/
By definition a transformation will always be complex, often to extremes. So how can we, as architects, address all of that complexity, and still stay somewhat sane?
One long-proven answer is the humble checklist – a list of essential items that people tend to forget when the going gets tough. This session introduces a seven-point transformation-checklist for architects: purpose and story; scope and scale; governance; constraints; structure-flaws; test at the extremes; resistance to change.
This checklist can be used within almost any type of architecture-guided transformation. We’ll explore its practical application, usage and implications in a variety of real-world architecture contexts. But beware: you may be surprised at what a simple checklist can show you…
Slidedeck for keynote at Enterprise Architektura conference, Prague, 2 November 2017 - http://archforum.eu/
A unique reflection on different views of architecture. How to eliminate fears of change, work with cultural stereotypes, and how architecture is related to Czech black-humour and why we have a tendency, as architects, to cut ourselves down. Also, how the architect should prepare the 'battle-plan' and how to succeed in the fight itself.
(Description above adapted from original Czech text in the conference programme, via Google Translate - see http://archforum.eu/agenda/ .)
Enterprise Architecture: Perspectives, conflicts and how to resolve themTetradian Consulting
Slidedeck for Brighttalk webinar, 06 December 2017
Enterprise-architecture used to be about IT and not much else: but not any more. These days, enterprise-architects in digital-transformation and the like must negotiate an ever-expanding maze of perspectives and conflicts across every aspect of the organisation and beyond.
So how do we resolve those conflicts, and identify the common factors across the perspectives that link everyone together? This seminar introduces some practical, proven approaches that can help architects explore any change-context, and lead them to the solutions they need.
Slidedeck for IASA / Irish Computer Society IT-architecture conference 'Show me the money!'
(Don't worry too much about the title - the talk is actually about the relation between money and value, and why value, values and trust are actually the core concerns for any enterprise-architecture.)
A keynote by Andrew Taylor, Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Wisconsin School of Business, for the 2011 Arts Enterprise Summit in Kansas City, MO.
From my presentation at the Internet Summit 2011 in Raleigh, NC. Focused on leveraging skills as a 'designer as website maker' to 'designer as catalyst.' Illustrating four areas where catalysts can approach adaptive challenges (wicked problems) and urging a move from user-centric design towards community-centric design.
An extended narrated version of a presentation I gave at The Pixel Lab, UK, July 2010 - http://www.powertothepixel.com/events-and-training/pttp-events/pixel-lab.
Explaining SSI to C-suite executives, and anyone else for that matterSSIMeetup
https://ssimeetup.org/explaining-ssi-c-suite-executives-anyone-else-john-phillips-webinar-48/
John Phillips from 460degrees in Australia has been exploring with his team for more than two years for a way to describe Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) that was easy to understand. We think he has found a good method to make SSI easy to understand for any C-suite executive and business people that goes beyond the technology.
John published a video in late 2019 that we found deeply insightful and we have invited him to share this with the SSI Meetup audience. This demo has been going down amazingly well with audiences from c-suite technology execs to design students.
This approach quite literally animates the discussion. People add other objects into the mix, move things around, ask relevant, insightful, questions.
John will share the learnings he is gaining from University research, as well as the results of work in supporting capstone projects for higher education students, and how this has led us to a storytelling model to explain SSI.
Heavyweight agile Processes? Let's make them leaner!Michael Mahlberg
When the Agile movement began, it started with the term “lightweight processes”. Lean was closely interwoven with some of the approaches and very often referred to in the general discussion - nowadays you hardly ever read about it.
If you really want to use “Agile” approaches for more than just pushing notes over the wall, or holding meetings as ceremonies, a look at Lean is not only helpful, but actually inevitable. Straight from ‘Lean' come many approaches that are helpful in the agile realm like:
* Visual Management (as an approach to empowerment),
* the Improvement Kata (as a leadership method),
* the Jidoka concept (as an approach to deal with automation),
and many other ideas for change and organization,
which we will present in this talk. We also put them in the context of currently fashionable approaches (like the Kanban method, Scrum, SAFe, etc.).
Why do enterprise-architecture fail? Three of the most common causes are:
-- Blurring between the distinct rolesof architecture and design
-- Starting architecture too lateand/or finishing too early in the process for making something real
-- Placing arbitrary constraintson content, scope and/or scale
Each of these errors causes the architecture to fragment and then fail.
In this slidedeck, we explore the causes for each of these errors, why they occur, the effects that the errors have, and what to do to avoid them.
As enterprise architecture expands outward towards the full whole-enterprise scope, what tools and methods will we need?
Presentation for IQPC Enterprise Architecture Summit, Sydney, 20-21 April 2021.
(This slidedeck includes extensive links to further sources of information - blog-posts, videos and other slidedecks.)
What is data-driven architecture? And if we use one, what data should we use to drive it?
A data-driven architecture should provide many real advantages - timeliness, self-adapting to change, and more anchored in the real-world context. Yet we can only reach those advantages when we have the right data - so how do we identify the right data to use?
The danger with ‘data-driven’ is that it often points us towards the wrong end of that challenge - the ‘What’ of the data, rather than the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ that underpins the architecture itself. For example, one common trap is saying “We have this data-source: how can we use it in our architecture?” - the classic architecture-error called ‘solutioneering’.
Instead, we need to start our architecture at the other end, moving from stakeholders to story to solution. In this webinar we’ll re-purpose the classic DIKW set - data information, knowledge, wisdom - to help us make sense of how a data-driven architecture actually operates, and thence point us towards the data-sources and sensors that we need to make it all work.
(Webinar for The Bridge / MongoDB, organised by Andrew Blades, Sydney, Australia, 06 August 2020.)
Webinar on power, leadership and change, for the Strategy, Execution and Leadership meetup, Adelaide, July 2020
For more details on the Strategy, Execution and Leadership meetup, see https://www.meetup.com/StrategyExecutionLeadership/
Webinar on sensemaking and action for planning and response to disruption, in business, in the family and in the community.
Joint webinar with Peoplerise and Vulcano, 22 June 2020
Presentation for IASA 24hr Online Summit, 30 April - 01 May 2020.
In every country, all of our enterprises are facing unprecedented levels of challenge and change. To help our organisations not just to weather the storm, but thrive in the new environment, enterprise architects would do well to extend their toolkit with tools from other strategic disciplines. This session provides a practical overview of some of the tools available from the futures/strategic-foresight domains, and shows how to use them in enterprise-architecture practice.
This session from the BCS EASG (British Computer Society Enterprise Architecture Special Group) conference, London, 26 June 2018, introduces a simple tool and technique that anyone can use to explore options for or in response to a business-change.
Presentation/workshop for British Computer Society (BCS) Enterprise-Architecture Special-Interest Group conference, London, 17 July 2017.
A simple step-by-step process to build a habit of reviewing benefits-realisation and lessons-learned from each iteration of architecture, with further actions to develop individual skills and shared-skills for teams. As shown in the workshop part of the session, the process can take as little as ten minutes, to deliver real, usable insights on a team's architecture-practice.
IASA / ICS Dublin workshop 'Tracking value in the enterprise'Tetradian Consulting
Slidedeck for an intended workshop at the IASA / Irish Computer Society conference, Dublin, June 2017
This slidedeck provides a ten-step process to identify what 'value' means within an organisation, and how to track and balance the flows of value across that organisation and its broader shared-enterprise.)
Slidedeck for workshop session at Local Lives Global Matters conference: presented by Helena Read with Tom Graves.
The Ecology of Enterprise
This practical workshop will use the Tetradian Enterprise Canvas as a tool to explore the ecology of our organisations.
ACS EA-SIG - Bridging enterprise-architecture and systems-thinkingTetradian Consulting
Webinar for Australian Computer Society - Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group, September 2015
A core aim in Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Systems-Thinking (ST): things work better when they work together on purpose. For this to happen, we need guided conversations that are actually everyone’s responsibility. What visual tools can we use to engage people in this?
This webinar introduces these concepts, and provides the tools and techniques need to bridge this gap. We will highlight some of the common approaches, frameworks and tools used in both of these highly related and important disciplines.
We will discuss how they can be used together and enhanced to deliver a common sense approach for everyday EA and ST practice. Included in this discussion is an introduction to the Enterprise Canvas, which is a powerful tool to enable visualisations of the enterprise by defining the services it offers and their relationships and interactions.
Invisible Armies: information, purpose and the real enterpriseTetradian Consulting
Presentation for Integrated-EA 2015 (enterprise-architecture conference, London, March 2015)
Every enterprise-architecture needs to address not only the visible elements of the context, but also its invisible elements - information, connections between people, and purpose.
(The focus of the conference is enterprise-architecture for the Defence context - hence the decidedly military flavour of the overall slidedeck and some of the visual-jokes. There's also some new work on complexity and the SCAN sensemaking/decision-making framework, around the importance and interdependence of 'commander's intent' and real-world information-flows.)
Presentation at Open Day on Enterprise-Architecture and Systems-Thinking, London, 21 October 2104, for SCiO (Systems and Cybernetics in Organisations) http://scio.org.uk/
This used my development-work on the Enterprise Canvas framework as a worked-example of how we might create tools to bridge the gaps between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking, in support of organisations' needs.
(This slidedeck also provides a useful overview and primer for Enterprise Canvas itself.)
This is an old slidedeck (March 2006) that I rediscovered the other day on my filesystem, but it still seems relevant in that, even at that early stage, it illustrates strong crosslinks between enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking - particularly service-oriented architectures, the 'tetradian' dimensions (here as machines, knowledge, people and business-purpose), and a somewhat-extended version of Stafford Beer's classic Viable Systems Model. It's also slightly unusual in that it cross-references to FEAF (US Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework) rather than TOGAF, as we'd found the latter to be unhelpful and misleading for that particular client. The client themselves were in the logistics industry - hence the pseudo-logo in the upper left of each slide.
It was a real presentation for a real client, presenting to other architects in our team some research I'd been doing, on how we could rethink our approach to enterprise-architecture as we started to break out of the classic IT-centric box. It's in a style I wouldn't use these days - way too many words! - and it's been somewhat 'de-identified' for reasons of commercial confidentiality, but otherwise it's exactly as presented to my colleagues at that client.
One minor note: the 'X/C/M/P' extensions to the Viable System Model, in slides 19, 20 and 28, relate to work we'd been doing at the time on integrating quality-system concerns - management of exceptions, corrective-action, issue-tracking and process-improvement - into both enterprise-architecture and the Viable System Model itself. I haven't seen any other reference to this type of integration, either before or since: it may be useful to quite a few people, on both the enterprise-architecture and systems-thinking sides of that discussion, and also to quality-system folks as well.
In short, yes, it's old, but it may still be useful for some folks in enterprise-architectures and elsewhere. Hope it helps, anyway.
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(It's a conference on enterprise-architecture in the Defence context, hence a somewhat military flavour and various military in-jokes.)
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7. “Enterprise architecture is done
to build better enterprises,
not merely better IT systems.”
One useful suggestion…
(Pallab Saha: ePragati)
[Andhra Pradesh State Enterprise Architecture]
8. …it’s Not A Good Idea…
Why architecture?
“the purpose of the system is
[expressed in] what it does”
Without architecture as anchor,
what we’d get is a random mix
of POSIWID:
9. Yes, this is EA…
(well, part of it, anyway…)
CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…and yes, IT-infrastructure is where current EA started
(back with frameworks like TOGAF versions 1-7)
10. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
Yet to understand the IT-infrastructure
(TOGAF versions 1-7)
we need to understand the applications
and the data in those applications…
(TOGAF version 8)
11. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…to understand the applications and data
(TOGAF version 8)
we need to understand the business use
and meaning of the data…
(TOGAF version 8.1)
12. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…to understand the business use of data
(TOGAF version 8.1)
we need to understand quite a bit more
about the business itself…
(TOGAF version 9)
13. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…and to understand the business
(TOGAF version 9)
we need to understand the broader context
in which the business operates…
(TOGAF X, we hope?)
14. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…because, in short,
everything in the enterprise
depends on everything else
(yes – even the IT)
15. CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via Flickr
…which gives us the real reason
for enterprise-architecture:
things work better
when they work together,
on purpose.
(kinda straightforward, yes?)
39. “Two points of view on architecture”
• Architecture is an exercise in truth
A proper building is responsible to universal
knowledge and is wholly honest in the expression of
its functions and materials
• Architecture is an exercise in narrative
Architecture is a vehicle for the telling of stories,
a canvas for relaying societal myths, a stage for the
theatre of everyday life
Chapter 84, in Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School, MIT Press, 2007
40. • Architecture is an exercise in truth
A proper building is responsible to universal
knowledge and is wholly honest in the expression of
its functions and materials
• Architecture is an exercise in narrative
Architecture is a vehicle for the telling of stories,
a canvas for relaying societal myths, a stage for the
theatre of everyday life
The TL;DR version...
- architecture is about structure
- architecture is about story
43. CC-BY Avodrocc via Flickr
Which, on its own,
doesn’t really tell us anything...
That’s the problem with structure.
To make sense of a structure,
we need the story...
52. CC-BY sfmission via Flickr
Yet when the party’s over,
and it’s time to head home…
53. CC-BY otubo via Flickr
Someone must be there to clean up...
- because that’s part of the story too.
54. CC-BY jorgeBRAZIL via Flickr
Process, assets, data, locations....
- all the usual structure-stuff...
...all those necessary details
of organisation.
58. Structures may be re-used
for other stories,
but the structure itself
is not the story.
59. CC-BY SheilaTostes via Flickr
A key task of enterprise-architecture
is to remember
and design for that fact,
Architecture is about structure.
Architecture is also about story.
We need both, to make it all happen.
maintaining the balance
between structure and story.
62. “An architecture
describes structure
to support a shared-story.”
Whose architecture?
Organisation aligns with structure, enterprise with story.
We need a balance of both for the architecture to work.
Tom Graves, The Enterprise As Story, Tetradian, 2012
63. “We create an architecture
for an organisation,
but about an enterprise.”
Tom Graves, Mapping the Enterprise, Tetradian, 2010
Whose architecture?
Organisation aligns with structure, enterprise with story.
We need a balance of both for the architecture to work.
64. “An organisation is bounded by
rules, roles and responsibilities;
an enterprise is bounded by
vision, values and commitments.”
Tom Graves, Mapping the Enterprise, Tetradian, 2010
Whose architecture?
Organisation aligns with structure, enterprise with story.
We need a balance of both for the architecture to work.
65. A useful guideline:
“The enterprise in scope
should be three steps larger
than the organisation in scope.”
Tom Graves, Mapping the Enterprise, Tetradian, 2010
Whose architecture?
66. Whose story?
If the organisation says it ‘is’ the enterprise,
there’s no shared-story - and often, no story at all.
68. Whose story?
The organisation and enterprise of the supply-chain
take place within a broader organisation of the market.
69. Whose story?
The market itself exists within a context of ‘intangible’
interactions with the broader shared-enterprise story.
70. A stakeholder
in the story
is anyone
who can wield
a sharp-pointed
stake
in your direction…
CC-BY-NC-SA evilpeacock via Flickr
Stakeholders in the enterprise
(Hint: there are a lot
more of them than you
might at first think…)
71. “Customers do not appear
in our processes...
...we appear in their
experiences.”
Chris Potts, recrEAtion, Technics, 2010
Whose story?
We must create the architecture around the shared-story
- not solely around our organisation’s structures.
73. …what story would be a ‘guiding star’,
to bring all of these stakeholders together?
Vision and values…
What works best is a three-part ‘story’:
-shared-concern (‘What’)
-action (‘How’)
- qualifier (‘Why’)
74. A myriad of ‘guiding stars’ out there…
…choose one that looks right to you.
Use it as your guiding-star. Everywhere.
Example (TED conferences): “Ideas worth spreading”
75. Concern: the focus of
interest to everyone in
the shared-enterprise
“Ideas worth
spreading”
CC-BY UK DFID via Flickr
92. …it’s Not A Good Idea…
Warning:
“the purpose of the system is
[expressed in] what it does”
Without shared-vision as anchor,
what we’d get is a random mix
of POSIWID:
96. Whose enterprise?
• We choose to align with an enterprise
• We do not possess that enterprise
(if anything, it possesses us...)
• We have our own business-values,
but those must uphold the enterprise-values
• Note: values are not necessarily monetary
(for Carnaval, a monetary focus may destroy
enterprise-values of pride and community)
98. Whose enterprise?
• Each player is in relation with all other players
(the relation may be indirect, but it always exists)
• Players whose values align most closely with
the enterprise-values should take the lead
• Anti-clients may share same enterprise-vision
(but disagree with us on how it should be achieved)
• “All complex systems have parasites” [Cory Doctorow]
(grey-economy is parasitic to Carnaval)
100. “Process is the use of structure
(the organisation view)
Plot is the unfolding of story
(the enterprise view)”
Tom Graves, The Enterprise As Story, Tetradian, 2012
Process and plot
101. “Each traverse through
a business-process
is a self-contained story
with its own actors, actions
and events”
Tom Graves, The Enterprise As Story, Tetradian, 2012
Process as story
103. Where’s the story?
Tom Graves, The Enterprise As Story, Tetradian, 2012
“Story is everywhere
in enterprise-architecture
(once you know where to look)”
116. “Customers do not appear
in our processes...
...we appear in their stories.”
paraphrase from Chris Potts, recrEAtion, Technics, 2010
And remember...
Our organisation acts within the scope of the enterprise:
think broader-enterprise first - outside-in, not inside-out.
118. Four types of stories
• Single-shot: enterprise delimited by one project
with a clear ‘character-arc’ or change
• Sequel: re-uses a previous enterprise,
but often without any new character-arc
• Series: different stories within the same ‘world’
bounded by the enterprise
• Serial: continuing stories within a ‘world’
(Most enterprise-stories work best as series or serial.)
127. “The world is made of stories”
• The enterprise itself is a story –an overarching theme
• Enterprise as ongoing story of relations between people
– the actors of the story
• Enterprise-story comprised of smaller stories – the
scenes or story-lines (aka ‘processes’)
• Enterprise-story takes place in a setting – the stage and
its context (technology), location, props (artefacts) etc
• Stories thrive on conflict, tension and uncertainty – in
contrast to machines, which generally don’t…
128. Scenes in the story
Split story into identifiable scenes, with begin, middle, end
CC-BY TheArches via Flickr
129. Scenes in the story
Process-story as identifiable scenes, with begin, middle, end
130. Show, don’t tell
Each line of action drives the story forward
CC-BY TheArches via Flickr
131. Show, don’t tell
Each line of action drives the story forward
CC-BY-ND Kecko via Flickr
132. The role of props
Each item has its place, and drives the story onward
CC-BY TheArches via Flickr
133. Each item has its place, and drives the story onward
CC-BY-ND Kecko via Flickr
The role of props
134. Maintain the mood
Computers may not have feelings, but people do:
how does the whole EA support the mood we need?
CC-BY-ND alanclarkdesign via Flickr
136. Simple changes
have roadmaps like
city streets…
…that story of change
is quite easy to
describe and explain…
…mapped out in terms
of (time)-horizons and
simple cross-
dependencies
137. Large-scale change is
more like setting out
to explore an
uncharted ocean…
…it needs a different kind
of planning…
…a different kind of
story…
138. A real example
Major business-
transformation project
(c.5 years, US$100mil)
Model developed by and provided
courtesy of Ondrej Gálik
140. Essentials for the journey…
Platform for change: tools, systems,
processes, models, records, funds,
resources
People for change: skills, experience,
teamwork, commitment; tools for
sensemaking, decisions, governance
Guidance for change: maps of the
known (as-is) and ideal (to-be); rules,
principles, navigation, ‘guiding-star’
144. CC-BY Avodrocc via Flickr
Most current EA toolsets
are for design of static structures...
145. CC-BY Boban021 via Flickr
...yet we also need our tools
to support the story.
146. “A challenge to vendors of
EA toolsets: we need
stronger support for story
within our EA tools:
images, audio, video and more.”
Tom Graves, The Enterprise As Story, Tetradian, 2012
Supporting the story
147. From structure to story
(Published variants of Business Model Canvas)
Alex Osterwalder / Alan Smith and others (cc) 2012
148. From structure to story
(Published variants of Business Model Canvas)
Alex Osterwalder / Alan Smith and others (cc) 2012
149. From structure to story
(Published variants of Business Model Canvas)
Alex Osterwalder / Alan Smith and others (cc) 2012
150. From structure to story
“Business Model Canvas In 2 Minutes” (YouTube: http://youtu.be/QoAOzMTLP5s )
Alex Osterwalder / Alan Smith / businessmodeltv and others (cc) 2012
162. “it’s not not about the
technology”
– Andrew McAfee
Sure, the technology
is an important ‘enabler’…
163. it’s about the enterprise
Yet it should never be about
technology itself…
– about people and
their enterprise
164. “Enterprise architecture is done
to build better enterprises,
not merely better IT systems.”
Remember that earlier suggestion…
(Pallab Saha: ePragati)
[Andhra Pradesh State Enterprise Architecture]
171. …people are the story.
People are the enterprise…
The enterprise as story.
172. What’s the story?So wherever we are in architecture,
we also need to be able to describe...
wherever we see structure,
CC-BY SheilaTostes via Flickr
175. Contact: Tom Graves
Company: Tetradian Consulting
Email: tom@tetradian.com
Twitter: @tetradian ( http://twitter.com/tetradian )
Weblog: http://weblog.tetradian.com
Slidedecks: http://www.slideshare.net/tetradian
Publications: http://tetradianbooks.com
Books: • The enterprise as story: the role of narrative in enterprise-
architecture (2012)
• Mapping the enterprise: modelling the enterprise as services
with the Enterprise Canvas (2010)
• Everyday enterprise-architecture: sensemaking, strategy,
structures and solutions (2010)
• Doing enterprise-architecture: process and practice in the real
enterprise (2009)
Further information: