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.)
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!
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
It is well known that an effective PMO is key to successful and efficient program and project execution. In other words, doing things “right”. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline that plans and monitors enterprise transformation and aligns the business strategy with information technology capabilities. In other words, doing the “right things” to support the business.
Why is it organizations despite having both of these disciplines still struggle with effective enterprise transformation? What can we done to use these disciplines more effectively to effect better business outcomes? What are the roles of each discipline and how do they work together to create business value?
In this presentation, Riaz will address these questions and will provide real life examples that can help build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture.
Learning Objectives:
• How to build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture (EA) to deliver positive outcomes for your organization
• Identify the different roles and functions of the PMO and EA as well as their similarities
How to Use a Semantic Layer to Deliver Actionable Insights at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Learn about using a semantic layer to enable actionable insights for everyone and streamline data and analytics access throughout your organization. This session will offer practical advice based on a decade of experience making semantic layers work for Enterprise customers.
Attend this session to learn about:
- Delivering critical business data to users faster than ever at scale using a semantic layer
- Enabling data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud.
- Maintaining a single source of governed metrics and business data
- Achieving speed of thought query performance and consistent KPIs across any BI/AI tool like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, DataRobot, Databricks and more.
- Providing dimensional analysis capability that accelerates performance with no need to extract data from the cloud data warehouse
Who should attend this session?
Data & Analytics leaders and practitioners (e.g., Chief Data Officers, data scientists, data literacy, business intelligence, and analytics professionals).
Data Architecture Best Practices for Advanced AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
Many organizations are immature when it comes to data and analytics use. The answer lies in delivering a greater level of insight from data, straight to the point of need.
There are so many Data Architecture best practices today, accumulated from years of practice. In this webinar, William will look at some Data Architecture best practices that he believes have emerged in the past two years and are not worked into many enterprise data programs yet. These are keepers and will be required to move towards, by one means or another, so it’s best to mindfully work them into the environment.
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!
Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Platform Architecture — What’s the ...DATAVERSITY
A solid data architecture is critical to the success of any data initiative. But what is meant by “data architecture”? Throughout the industry, there are many different “flavors” of data architecture, each with its own unique value and use cases for describing key aspects of the data landscape. Join this webinar to demystify the various architecture styles and understand how they can add value to your organization.
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
It is well known that an effective PMO is key to successful and efficient program and project execution. In other words, doing things “right”. Enterprise Architecture is the discipline that plans and monitors enterprise transformation and aligns the business strategy with information technology capabilities. In other words, doing the “right things” to support the business.
Why is it organizations despite having both of these disciplines still struggle with effective enterprise transformation? What can we done to use these disciplines more effectively to effect better business outcomes? What are the roles of each discipline and how do they work together to create business value?
In this presentation, Riaz will address these questions and will provide real life examples that can help build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture.
Learning Objectives:
• How to build a strong relationship between the PMO and Enterprise Architecture (EA) to deliver positive outcomes for your organization
• Identify the different roles and functions of the PMO and EA as well as their similarities
How to Use a Semantic Layer to Deliver Actionable Insights at ScaleDATAVERSITY
Learn about using a semantic layer to enable actionable insights for everyone and streamline data and analytics access throughout your organization. This session will offer practical advice based on a decade of experience making semantic layers work for Enterprise customers.
Attend this session to learn about:
- Delivering critical business data to users faster than ever at scale using a semantic layer
- Enabling data teams to model and deliver a semantic layer on data in the cloud.
- Maintaining a single source of governed metrics and business data
- Achieving speed of thought query performance and consistent KPIs across any BI/AI tool like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, DataRobot, Databricks and more.
- Providing dimensional analysis capability that accelerates performance with no need to extract data from the cloud data warehouse
Who should attend this session?
Data & Analytics leaders and practitioners (e.g., Chief Data Officers, data scientists, data literacy, business intelligence, and analytics professionals).
Data Architecture Best Practices for Advanced AnalyticsDATAVERSITY
Many organizations are immature when it comes to data and analytics use. The answer lies in delivering a greater level of insight from data, straight to the point of need.
There are so many Data Architecture best practices today, accumulated from years of practice. In this webinar, William will look at some Data Architecture best practices that he believes have emerged in the past two years and are not worked into many enterprise data programs yet. These are keepers and will be required to move towards, by one means or another, so it’s best to mindfully work them into the environment.
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.
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
Keeping the Pulse of Your Data – Why You Need Data Observability to Improve D...DATAVERSITY
With the explosive growth of DataOps to drive faster and more confident business decisions, proactively understanding the quality and health of your data is more important than ever. Data observability is an emerging discipline within data quality used to expose anomalies in data by continuously monitoring and testing data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to trigger alerts when issues are discovered.
Join Julie Skeen and Shalaish Koul from Precisely, to learn how data observability can be used as part of a DataOps strategy to improve data quality and reliability and to prevent data issues from wreaking havoc on your analytics and ensure that your organization can confidently rely on the data used for advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Topics you will hear addressed in this webinar:
Data observability – what is it and how it can complement your data quality strategy
Why now is the time to incorporate data observability into your DataOps strategy
How data observability helps prevent data issues from impacting downstream analytics
Examples of how data observability can be used to prevent real-world issues
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi introduces Databricks Delta, a new data management system that combines the scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake, the performance and reliability of a data warehouse, and the low latency of streaming.
According to Gartner, “By 2018, organizations with data virtualization capabilities will spend 40% less on building and managing data integration processes for connecting distributed data assets.” This solidifies Data Virtualization as a critical piece of technology for any flexible and agile modern data architecture.
This session will:
• Introduce data virtualization and explain how it differs from traditional data integration approaches
• Discuss key patterns and use cases of Data Virtualization
• Set the scene for subsequent sessions in the Packed Lunch Webinar Series, which will take a deeper dive into various challenges solved by data virtualization.
Agenda:
• Introduction & benefits of DV
• Summary & Next Steps
• Q&A
Watch full webinar here: https://goo.gl/EFQNFs
This webinar is part of the Data Virtualization Packed Lunch Webinar Series: https://goo.gl/W1BeCb
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r2)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a modern data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. They all may sound great in theory, but I'll dig into the concerns you need to be aware of before taking the plunge. I’ll also include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs. And I'll discuss Microsoft version of the data mesh.
Intuit's Data Mesh - Data Mesh Leaning Community meetup 5.13.2021Tristan Baker
Past, present and future of data mesh at Intuit. This deck describes a vision and strategy for improving data worker productivity through a Data Mesh approach to organizing data and holding data producers accountable. Delivered at the inaugural Data Mesh Leaning meetup on 5/13/2021.
This is Part 4 of the GoldenGate series on Data Mesh - a series of webinars helping customers understand how to move off of old-fashioned monolithic data integration architecture and get ready for more agile, cost-effective, event-driven solutions. The Data Mesh is a kind of Data Fabric that emphasizes business-led data products running on event-driven streaming architectures, serverless, and microservices based platforms. These emerging solutions are essential for enterprises that run data-driven services on multi-cloud, multi-vendor ecosystems.
Join this session to get a fresh look at Data Mesh; we'll start with core architecture principles (vendor agnostic) and transition into detailed examples of how Oracle's GoldenGate platform is providing capabilities today. We will discuss essential technical characteristics of a Data Mesh solution, and the benefits that business owners can expect by moving IT in this direction. For more background on Data Mesh, Part 1, 2, and 3 are on the GoldenGate YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqmhpwYrlZJ-583p3KQGDAd6038i1ywe
Webinar Speaker: Jeff Pollock, VP Product (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtpollock/)
Mr. Pollock is an expert technology leader for data platforms, big data, data integration and governance. Jeff has been CTO at California startups and a senior exec at Fortune 100 tech vendors. He is currently Oracle VP of Products and Cloud Services for Data Replication, Streaming Data and Database Migrations. While at IBM, he was head of all Information Integration, Replication and Governance products, and previously Jeff was an independent architect for US Defense Department, VP of Technology at Cerebra and CTO of Modulant – he has been engineering artificial intelligence based data platforms since 2001. As a business consultant, Mr. Pollock was a Head Architect at Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. Jeff is also the author of “Semantic Web for Dummies” and "Adaptive Information,” a frequent keynote at industry conferences, author for books and industry journals, formerly a contributing member of W3C and OASIS, and an engineering instructor with UC Berkeley’s Extension for object-oriented systems, software development process and enterprise architecture.
This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is presented by the Semantech Inc. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. The purpose of the briefing is to provide a better understanding of how Frameworks are used in the practice of EA.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYTICS presentationMohit Negi
SIX SIGMA APPROACH, DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHARTS AND THEIR FUNCTION, DASHBOARD, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, DATA VISUALISATION INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD, BUSINESS REPORTING, BALANCE SCORECARD
Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and their relationships
Apply SOA to Enterprise Architecture – Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Service Oriented Enterprise
Service Oriented Applications and Systems
Service Oriented Infrastructure
Metadata is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Wonder what this data mesh stuff is all about? What are the principles of data mesh? Can you or should you consider data mesh as the approach for your analytics platform? And most important - how can Snowflake help?
Given in Montreal on 14-Dec-2021
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Data Warehouse or Data Lake, Which Do I Choose?DATAVERSITY
Today’s data-driven companies have a choice to make – where do we store our data? As the move to the cloud continues to be a driving factor, the choice becomes either the data warehouse (Snowflake et al) or the data lake (AWS S3 et al). There are pro’s and con’s for each approach. While the data warehouse will give you strong data management with analytics, they don’t do well with semi-structured and unstructured data with tightly coupled storage and compute, not to mention expensive vendor lock-in. On the other hand, data lakes allow you to store all kinds of data and are extremely affordable, but they’re only meant for storage and by themselves provide no direct value to an organization.
Enter the Open Data Lakehouse, the next evolution of the data stack that gives you the openness and flexibility of the data lake with the key aspects of the data warehouse like management and transaction support.
In this webinar, you’ll hear from Ali LeClerc who will discuss the data landscape and why many companies are moving to an open data lakehouse. Ali will share more perspective on how you should think about what fits best based on your use case and workloads, and how some real world customers are using Presto, a SQL query engine, to bring analytics to the data lakehouse.
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.
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.)
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.
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
Keeping the Pulse of Your Data – Why You Need Data Observability to Improve D...DATAVERSITY
With the explosive growth of DataOps to drive faster and more confident business decisions, proactively understanding the quality and health of your data is more important than ever. Data observability is an emerging discipline within data quality used to expose anomalies in data by continuously monitoring and testing data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to trigger alerts when issues are discovered.
Join Julie Skeen and Shalaish Koul from Precisely, to learn how data observability can be used as part of a DataOps strategy to improve data quality and reliability and to prevent data issues from wreaking havoc on your analytics and ensure that your organization can confidently rely on the data used for advanced analytics and business intelligence.
Topics you will hear addressed in this webinar:
Data observability – what is it and how it can complement your data quality strategy
Why now is the time to incorporate data observability into your DataOps strategy
How data observability helps prevent data issues from impacting downstream analytics
Examples of how data observability can be used to prevent real-world issues
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi introduces Databricks Delta, a new data management system that combines the scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake, the performance and reliability of a data warehouse, and the low latency of streaming.
According to Gartner, “By 2018, organizations with data virtualization capabilities will spend 40% less on building and managing data integration processes for connecting distributed data assets.” This solidifies Data Virtualization as a critical piece of technology for any flexible and agile modern data architecture.
This session will:
• Introduce data virtualization and explain how it differs from traditional data integration approaches
• Discuss key patterns and use cases of Data Virtualization
• Set the scene for subsequent sessions in the Packed Lunch Webinar Series, which will take a deeper dive into various challenges solved by data virtualization.
Agenda:
• Introduction & benefits of DV
• Summary & Next Steps
• Q&A
Watch full webinar here: https://goo.gl/EFQNFs
This webinar is part of the Data Virtualization Packed Lunch Webinar Series: https://goo.gl/W1BeCb
Data Catalogs Are the Answer – What is the Question?DATAVERSITY
Organizations with governed metadata made available through their data catalog can answer questions their people have about the organization’s data. These organizations get more value from their data, protect their data better, gain improved ROI from data-centric projects and programs, and have more confidence in their most strategic data.
Join Bob Seiner for this lively webinar where he will talk about the value of a data catalog and how to build the use of the catalog into your stewards’ daily routines. Bob will share how the tool must be positioned for success and viewed as a must-have resource that is a steppingstone and catalyst to governed data across the organization.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r2)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a modern data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. They all may sound great in theory, but I'll dig into the concerns you need to be aware of before taking the plunge. I’ll also include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs. And I'll discuss Microsoft version of the data mesh.
Intuit's Data Mesh - Data Mesh Leaning Community meetup 5.13.2021Tristan Baker
Past, present and future of data mesh at Intuit. This deck describes a vision and strategy for improving data worker productivity through a Data Mesh approach to organizing data and holding data producers accountable. Delivered at the inaugural Data Mesh Leaning meetup on 5/13/2021.
This is Part 4 of the GoldenGate series on Data Mesh - a series of webinars helping customers understand how to move off of old-fashioned monolithic data integration architecture and get ready for more agile, cost-effective, event-driven solutions. The Data Mesh is a kind of Data Fabric that emphasizes business-led data products running on event-driven streaming architectures, serverless, and microservices based platforms. These emerging solutions are essential for enterprises that run data-driven services on multi-cloud, multi-vendor ecosystems.
Join this session to get a fresh look at Data Mesh; we'll start with core architecture principles (vendor agnostic) and transition into detailed examples of how Oracle's GoldenGate platform is providing capabilities today. We will discuss essential technical characteristics of a Data Mesh solution, and the benefits that business owners can expect by moving IT in this direction. For more background on Data Mesh, Part 1, 2, and 3 are on the GoldenGate YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqmhpwYrlZJ-583p3KQGDAd6038i1ywe
Webinar Speaker: Jeff Pollock, VP Product (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtpollock/)
Mr. Pollock is an expert technology leader for data platforms, big data, data integration and governance. Jeff has been CTO at California startups and a senior exec at Fortune 100 tech vendors. He is currently Oracle VP of Products and Cloud Services for Data Replication, Streaming Data and Database Migrations. While at IBM, he was head of all Information Integration, Replication and Governance products, and previously Jeff was an independent architect for US Defense Department, VP of Technology at Cerebra and CTO of Modulant – he has been engineering artificial intelligence based data platforms since 2001. As a business consultant, Mr. Pollock was a Head Architect at Ernst & Young’s Center for Technology Enablement. Jeff is also the author of “Semantic Web for Dummies” and "Adaptive Information,” a frequent keynote at industry conferences, author for books and industry journals, formerly a contributing member of W3C and OASIS, and an engineering instructor with UC Berkeley’s Extension for object-oriented systems, software development process and enterprise architecture.
This presentation provides an overview of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks. It is presented by the Semantech Inc. Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence. The purpose of the briefing is to provide a better understanding of how Frameworks are used in the practice of EA.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYTICS presentationMohit Negi
SIX SIGMA APPROACH, DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHARTS AND THEIR FUNCTION, DASHBOARD, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, DATA VISUALISATION INFORMATION VISUALISATION, PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD, BUSINESS REPORTING, BALANCE SCORECARD
Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and their relationships
Apply SOA to Enterprise Architecture – Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture
Service Oriented Enterprise
Service Oriented Applications and Systems
Service Oriented Infrastructure
Metadata is hotter than ever, according to a number of recent DATAVERSITY surveys. More and more organizations are realizing that in order to drive business value from data, robust metadata is needed to gain the necessary context and lineage around key data assets. At the same time, industry regulations are driving the need for better transparency and understanding of information.
While metadata has been managed for decades, new strategies & approaches have been developed to support the ever-evolving data landscape, and provide more innovative ways to drive business value from metadata. This webinar will provide an overview of metadata strategies & technologies available to today’s organization, and provide insights into building successful business strategies for metadata adoption & use.
What is data literacy? Which organizations, and which workers in those organizations, need to be data-literate? There are seemingly hundreds of definitions of data literacy, along with almost as many opinions about how to achieve it.
In a broader perspective, companies must consider whether data literacy is an isolated goal or one component of a broader learning strategy to address skill deficits. How does data literacy compare to other types of skills or “literacy” such as business acumen?
This session will position data literacy in the context of other worker skills as a framework for understanding how and where it fits and how to advocate for its importance.
Wonder what this data mesh stuff is all about? What are the principles of data mesh? Can you or should you consider data mesh as the approach for your analytics platform? And most important - how can Snowflake help?
Given in Montreal on 14-Dec-2021
Data Integration is a key part of many of today’s data management challenges: from data warehousing, to MDM, to mergers & acquisitions. Issues can arise not only in trying to align technical formats from various databases and legacy systems, but in trying to achieve common business definitions and rules.
Join this webinar to see how a data model can help with both of these challenges – from ‘bottom-up’ technical integration, to the ‘top-down’ business alignment.
Data Warehouse or Data Lake, Which Do I Choose?DATAVERSITY
Today’s data-driven companies have a choice to make – where do we store our data? As the move to the cloud continues to be a driving factor, the choice becomes either the data warehouse (Snowflake et al) or the data lake (AWS S3 et al). There are pro’s and con’s for each approach. While the data warehouse will give you strong data management with analytics, they don’t do well with semi-structured and unstructured data with tightly coupled storage and compute, not to mention expensive vendor lock-in. On the other hand, data lakes allow you to store all kinds of data and are extremely affordable, but they’re only meant for storage and by themselves provide no direct value to an organization.
Enter the Open Data Lakehouse, the next evolution of the data stack that gives you the openness and flexibility of the data lake with the key aspects of the data warehouse like management and transaction support.
In this webinar, you’ll hear from Ali LeClerc who will discuss the data landscape and why many companies are moving to an open data lakehouse. Ali will share more perspective on how you should think about what fits best based on your use case and workloads, and how some real world customers are using Presto, a SQL query engine, to bring analytics to the data lakehouse.
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.
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.)
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.
Respect as an architectural issue: a case-study in business survivalTetradian Consulting
The client: a large bank in Latin America. The business problem: loss of respect of the company in the market and the broader community, plummeting from highest to lowest in the region in a matter of months, with impacts throughout all aspects of the business. This real-life case study explores, step-by-step, the actual practices and underlying architecture principles that were used to tackle a major strategic issue with enterprise-wide scope, and set the groundwork for subsequent process development.
bsides NOVA 2017 So You Want to Be a Cyber Threat Analyst eh?Anthony Melfi
Despite being around for well over six years, the position of a "cyber threat analyst" is one that is still not yet clearly defined. The lack of definition is due to the positions popularity and infancy. This talk isn't about stating which definition is right or wrong. This presentation is about the set of skills, concepts and theories which enable an analyst to be successful under any definition of "cyber threat analyst". For beginners it is a road-map. For experienced analysts it is a cross-pollination of ideas.
I was extremely excited and nervous to deliver the first non-keynote presentation at bsides NOVA 2017. The actual presentation is posted to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzd4ousd8-U&list=PLNhlcxQZJSm95e9Z5mvkAk5H3eEBFuVSf&index=19
The continuous innovation model - combining Toyota Kata and TRIZ Teemu Toivonen
Companies are facing increasingly tough competition in the global economy. Previously sustainable competitive advantage strategies are insufficient in the changed market conditions. The only sustainable advantage is continuous innovation at a faster pace than rival organizations. This requires a systematic approach to innovation and engaging staff on all levels to effectively take part in the innovation efforts.
Toyota Kata is proven and highly successful method for continuous improvement at the whole organization level. Toyota Kata was discovered by Mike Rother while he researched Toyota’s quality improvement methods. It is a holistic system method for improvement efforts which contains processes and behavioral patterns for strategically aligned goal setting, problem solving, coaching, management and training. It is a simple and teachable approach which also covers the management of improvement efforts. The downside of the approach is its focus on incremental improvement instead of breakthrough innovation.
The approach can be improved by adding TRIZ techniques like contradiction analyses, FAA, inventive principles and trends of evolution to various parts of the method. This approach will allow to keep the benefits of the Toyota Kata approach while changing the focus from incremental improvement to true innovation. The combined approach is also better suited for the more complex problems of today’s knowledge workers. Toyota Kata can also be used as method for introducing and training TRIZ to the organization in an effective and incremental way.
The combined method for continuous innovation can be further improved with the Lean Startup methods to validate the solutions. The Lean Startup experimentation approach is geared to design quick and inexpensive approaches for the market validations of service, management and software innovations.
A presentation by Mr Rudolph Louw (Director: Transnet Centre of Systems Engineering: WITS University) at the Transport Forum SIG 21 April 2016 hosted by T-Systems SA Pty)Ltd. The theme for the event was: "Innovation in Transnet" and the topic of the presentation was: "A New Systems Perspective in Context of Transnet One Company"
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.)
"Threat Model Every Story": Practical Continuous Threat Modeling Work for You...Izar Tarandach
How to do threat modeling in the age of Agile and DevOps. A practical methodology for teams focusing on developers. Also, an introduction to PyTM as a tool for threat-modeling-with-code.
Everyone's talking Digital and it's Dangerous - for Henley Business SchoolDavid Terrar
Guest lecture at Henley Business School
The digital backdrop - 20 years of a world gone digital
Why the current business landscape is so disruptive and what we call the Digital Enterprise Wave
Why organisational change is relevant, a look at different models, examples and case studies
Digital transformation defined
The management shift that is emerging (and required)
8 building blocks for digital transformation
This book is not finished. We’ve been developing it over the past few years. It began as a manilla folder with copies of different process models. We completed the first “book” version as part of a project undertaken for Elaine Coleman and Sun’s Virtual Center for Innovation. We present this version for educational purposes only. We have obtained no permissions to reproduce any of the models. Copyrights remain with their owners.
If you know of any models which are not featured in this book, please feel free to share them with us.
Everyone designs. The teacher arranging desks for a discussion. The entrepreneur planning a business. The team building a rocket.
Their results differ. So do their goals. So do the scales of their projects and the media they use. Even their actions appear quite different. What’s similar is that they are designing. What’s similar are the processes they follow.
Our processes determine the quality of our products. If we wish to improve our products, we must improve our processes; we must continually redesign not just our products but also the way we design. That’s why we study the design process. To know what we do and how we do it. To understand it and improve it. To become better designers.
Slides with notes for my workshop at Lean UX 2014. This is an iterated version of my 2013 workshop - different exercise, slightly different content, but much is similar. Includes link to handout!
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.
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.
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 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/ .)
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 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.)
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…
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!)
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.
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.)
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...
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Presentation at Vlerick Business School, Brussels, 26 September 2014 - describes a variety of approaches, techniques and case-studies for mapping out the desired sequence of change in medium- to large-scale business-transformation.
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Enterprise Excellence is Inclusive Excellence.pdfKaiNexus
Enterprise excellence and inclusive excellence are closely linked, and real-world challenges have shown that both are essential to the success of any organization. To achieve enterprise excellence, organizations must focus on improving their operations and processes while creating an inclusive environment that engages everyone. In this interactive session, the facilitator will highlight commonly established business practices and how they limit our ability to engage everyone every day. More importantly, though, participants will likely gain increased awareness of what we can do differently to maximize enterprise excellence through deliberate inclusion.
What is Enterprise Excellence?
Enterprise Excellence is a holistic approach that's aimed at achieving world-class performance across all aspects of the organization.
What might I learn?
A way to engage all in creating Inclusive Excellence. Lessons from the US military and their parallels to the story of Harry Potter. How belt systems and CI teams can destroy inclusive practices. How leadership language invites people to the party. There are three things leaders can do to engage everyone every day: maximizing psychological safety to create environments where folks learn, contribute, and challenge the status quo.
Who might benefit? Anyone and everyone leading folks from the shop floor to top floor.
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This insightful presentation is designed to equip entrepreneurs with the essential knowledge and tools needed to accurately value their businesses. Understanding business valuation is crucial for making informed decisions, whether you're seeking investment, planning to sell, or simply want to gauge your company's worth.
The key differences between the MDR and IVDR in the EUAllensmith572606
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Tools and techniques for whole-enterprise architecture
1. Tools and techniques
for whole-enterprise architecture
Tom Graves, Tetradian
IQPC EA Summit, April 2021
2. Hi.
(yeah, I’ve been working in architectures
for maybe too many years now...?)
I’m Tom.
3. These days I’m best described as
a maker of tools for change...
also on the architecture of change,
linking strategy to execution
and back again, as needed...
4. Four themes for
whole-enterprise architecture…
1. About context and scope for EA
2. About fitness-for-purpose
3. About tools and fractality
4. About methods for whole-EA
6. The role of all architecture is
to ensure effectiveness
across the whole of the scope:
“Things work better when
they work together, on-purpose”
7. Over the years, the scope for
EA has expanded steadily from
IT-infrastructure to business-
architecture and beyond.
Let’s look at that history...
8. A bit of history: 1960s-1970s…
First usages of
the ‘architecture’
term in IT,
such as for the
IBM System/360
series
Image: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-
F038812-0014 / Schaack, Lothar /
CC-BY-SA 3.0
9. A bit of history: 1980s…
IBM-PC etc
provide
standards
for hardware,
OS; also key
theory-elements
such as
Zachman’s
papers
Image: John Zachman via Wikipedia
10. A bit of history: 1990s…
Client-driven
demands for
improved IT-
effectiveness,
such as per US
Clinger-Cohen
Act
Image: CC-BY-SA MysteryBee via
Flickr
11. A bit of history: 2000s…
IT-architecture
now also covers
apps, data and
some aspects of
business, and is
lazily renamed
to ‘enterprise
architecture’
Image: Open Group
12. A bit of history: 2010s onward…
This ‘enterprise-
architecture’ now
aims to cover all
aspects of the
business and its
enterprise
Image: Alex Osterwalder et al
13. ...yet we’ve been here before...
- let’s look at that history too...
14. Dowding System: 1940
The ‘Dowding
System’ for UK
air-defence – full
integration of
process, people,
information-flow,
feedback,
redundancy and
more
15. Ford’s ‘integrated factory’: 1910
Henry Ford’s
‘integrated
factory’, from
raw-materials to
full lifetime of
finished product
(and waste-
management
too)
16. US railroad systems: 1860
US railroads –
mapping
physical-layout,
people and their
responsibilities,
business-
structure and
more
17. Roman Empire: CE100
Full integration
of resource-
management,
security,
economics,
politics and
more, across the
entire Empire
19. Need ‘architecture of architectures’
that’s consistent across:
every type of enterprise,
every scope and scale,
every type of content and context,
every stage of implementation,
every part of the change-lifecycle
21. Do our current tools and techniques
have fitness-for-purpose for:
every type of enterprise,
every scope and scale,
every type of content and context,
every stage of implementation,
every part of the change-lifecycle
23. The main reason for unfitness:
a persistent scope-error
mistaking the scope for
enterprise-wide IT
with the scope for
the enterprise itself
24. One of these is not like the others…
• Data-architecture is the architecture of data
• Security-architecture is the architecture of security
• Process-architecture is the architecture of processes
• Business-architecture is the architecture of business
• Enterprise-architecture is the architectural-analysis for
detail-design of IT-infrastructure in large organisations
32. The scope and architecture for
enterprise-wide IT
is not the same as
the scope and architecture for
the enterprise itself…
- don’t mix them up!
33. Other reasons for poor fitness:
• Over-emphasis on ‘state’
• Over-emphasis on certainty
• Optimised for mass-sameness
• Optimised for single timescales
• Fragmentation into ‘walled-gardens’
34. In most classic
change-models,
we contrast
‘current state’
and ‘future state’
- yet in the real-
world there is no
‘state’ – there is
only change
Concern: Over-emphasis on ‘state’
35. Concern: Over-emphasis on certainty
(after Damien Newman)
Key information is lost
for use in the ‘messy’
part of the next loop
Tools over-focus
on the ‘certainty’
part of the process
36. Concern: Optimised for sameness
A quest for certainty:
analysis, algorithms,
identicality, efficiency,
business-rule
engines, executable
models, Six Sigma...
SAMENESS
(IT-systems do work
well here)
UNIQUENESS
(IT-systems don’t work
well here)
An acceptance of
uncertainty:
experiment, patterns,
probabilities, ‘design-
thinking’, unstructured
process, ‘human’...
certain uncertain
37. Concern: Optimised for single timescales
Like a forest, the
real-world has
many complex,
interleaving
timescales
38. Concern: Tools as ‘walled-gardens’
No connection
between tools –
causes fragmentation
Tools are scattered all
over the exploration-
space
39. • “Architecture is an exercise in truth”
- architecture is about structure
– (IT-architecture is often really good at this)
• “Architecture is an exercise in narrative”
- architecture is about story
– (IT-architecture is often really bad at this…)
We need balance between structure and story
‘Two points of view on architecture’
(adapted from Chapter 84, in Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned In Architecture School, MIT Press, 2007
41. Our sales-pitch to executives:
ensure and enhance effectiveness
across the enterprise as a whole,
adapting to and guiding change,
always ‘on-purpose’
42. Need effectiveness across the whole:
any form of local-optimisation is
Not A Good Idea…
(yet most current tools and methods for EA
are optimised only for specific domains
- mainly IT and ‘business-architecture’)
43. Our ‘architecture of architectures’
needs tools and methods that
work the same way everywhere
across a whole-enterprise scope
(and where everything links together
across the whole, always)
47. For this too, it’s likewise
‘one bite at a time’
- yet each small bit linked into the whole,
each bit getting better at doing the work
48. Tools and methods must address:
• Any/all contexts, scopes, content etc
• Continual change, ‘statelessness’
• Certainty and uncertainty
• Mass-sameness and mass-uniqueness
• Any/all timescales, interleaving
• Integration across all ‘walled-gardens’
• Structure and story
49. Two questions to explore…
• What patterns, tools and guidelines
do we need for this work?
• What techniques and methods do we need,
to map each item of change, to do the right
things right, and learn from each action?
51. The core requirements again:
• tools able to address any type of
enterprise, any scope and scale, and
any content and context, stages of
implementation and change-lifecycle
• must help to link everything together
into a unified whole
52. An architects’ mantra:
“I don’t know” (but I know how to find out)
“It depends” (and I can find out what it depends on)
“Just enough detail” (not too little, not too much)
“Start anywhere” (everything’s connected!)
“Be honest, be kind” (everyone has their challenges)
53. Fractality is our friend…
Once we’ve
identified the
context, we can use
fractal-type ‘self-
similar’ patterns to
gather detail and
help connect across
the whole…
…tools that we can
use everywhere
54. Tools to help identify context:
• Visioning – identify the context-story,
values, guiding, principles, standards etc
• Layers – identify the core stakeholders
and required level or type of detail
55. Identifying context: Visioning
The vision or
story-descriptor
is the ultimate
anchor for
everything that
the enterprise is
and does – the
organisation then
links itself into
that story.
A three-part ‘story’ that makes sense to all enterprise-stakeholders
Elements of a vision-statement
Action (‘How’): what is being done to
or with or about the concern
Example: “Ideas worth spreading”
Qualifier (‘Why’): the emotive driver
for action on the concern
Example: “Ideas worth spreading”
Concern (‘What’): the focus of interest
to everyone in the shared-enterprise
Example: “Ideas worth spreading”
56. Visioning: Derive values, principles etc
Given the vision-
statement, we
can then derive
values and
principles that
can guide
decision-making
within the
organisation
Vision outlines the shared-story…
Principles devolve from values…
Value-propositions must align to
vision, values, principles…
Vision, role, mission, goal…
Values devolve from the vision…
58. Layers: Scope within the context
We can use a
layer-model to
identify which
parts of the
overall context
we will address
(Note that ‘classic’
EA will address only
a subset of these
layers)
59. Layers: Types of stakeholders
The layers that
we choose also
help us identify
the types of
stakeholders
that we will need
to work with and
consult
60. Fractal-checklist tools for content:
• Holomap – describe transactions,
interactions, dependencies, relationships
• SCORE – identify strategic options
• SCAN – model the complexity in context
• Service Canvas – describe services, service-
content and service-relationships
61. Identifying content: Holomap
The B(I)DAT-
stack used in
TOGAF etc is
just one context-
specific instance
of the more
generalised
pattern of the
Holomap
B(I)DAT-stack
Holomap
pattern
62. Holomap: Business-architecture
The Holomap
pattern also
shows why the
‘Business-
Architecture’
description in
TOGAF does not
work well for
business itself…
BIDAT-stack
Holomap
Business-
architecture
Holomap
63. Holomap: Both ‘outward’ and ‘inward’
The complete
Holomap pattern
also extends
downward,
fractally, into the
detail for
implementation
and action
64. Holomap: Organisation and enterprise
When the
‘service-in-focus’
for a Holomap is
the organisation
as a whole, the
pattern looks like
this…
65. Holomap: Implementation-detail
…where the
pattern for real-
world detail of
implementation
– for which the
BIDAT-pattern is
only one subset
– would look
more like this…
applications,
data etc
technology,
infrastructure,
agents etc
purpose,
guidance etc
scope of
BIDAT
66. Holomap: Adapt to context
It’s a checklist-
pattern, so we can
adapt it to more
complex contexts
such as a business’
IT-organisation…
IT-organisation
relationship-pattern
travel-ecommerce
relationship-pattern
…or a multi-partner
ecommerce
transaction-space
67. Holomap: Mapping responsibility
We can also merge
the Holomap with
other fractal-
compatible tools,
such as in linking
Holomap with RACI
to map the
organisation’s types
of responsibilities
with its stakeholders
68. Identifying content: SCORE
SCORE
(Strengths,
Challenges,
Options,
Responses,
Effectiveness)
provides a
consistent means
to explore
strategic choices
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strengths
Strengths / Services / Support
(existing capabilities and resources, potential for
synergies)
challenges
Challenges / Capabilities-needed
(‘weaknesses’ indicate needed capabilities and
resources)
options
Options / Opportunities and risks
(opportunity is also risk, risk is also opportunity)
responses
Responses / Returns / Rewards
(probable or emergent consequences of action or
inaction)
effectiveness
default: efficient, reliable, elegant,
appropriate, integrated
focus-question
69. SCORE: Provenance of choices
With SCORE, we
move around the
space, linking
ideas to feedback
and actions, and
building a trail of
provenance for
each choice along
the way
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strengths
Strengths / Services / Support
(existing capabilities and resources, potential for
synergies)
challenges
Challenges / Capabilities-needed
(‘weaknesses’ indicate needed capabilities and
resources)
options
Options / Opportunities and risks
(opportunity is also risk, risk is also opportunity)
responses
Responses / Returns / Rewards
(probable or emergent consequences of action or
inaction)
effectiveness
default: efficient, reliable, elegant,
appropriate, integrated
focus-question
70. Identifying content: SCAN
SCAN helps us to
map out types and
levels of uncertainty
before, during and
after the action at a
given ‘NOW’
71. SCAN: Resolve uncertainty
One use for SCAN
is to help identify
reducible-
uncertainty to
resolve before
action, versus
non-reducible
uncertainty that
can be resolved
only at run-time
reducible
uncertainty
non-reducible
uncertainty
purported
certainty
72. Identifying content: Service Canvas
A consistent,
symmetric, fully-
fractal way to
model every
type of activity in
the enterprise as
services and
their exchanges
support-
services
child-services
within the
service
(Note: Service Canvas is
also known as Enterprise
Canvas)
73. Service Canvas: Crosslink to Holomap
Support-services
in Service Canvas
link into different
parts of the
respective
Holomap and its
relationships:
transaction,
direct-interaction,
indirect-
interaction
74. Service Canvas: Crosslink with SCAN
Child-services
within each
Service Canvas
crosslink to the
‘before, during,
after’ of SCAN,
and other fractal
models such as
Service Cycle
‘before, during, after’ as in SCAN
75. Service Canvas: Service-content
Service Canvas
includes a
consistent way to
describe service-
content and
structure-
elements,
crosslinked to
context-layers
76. Reprise on core requirements:
• every type of enterprise, any scope and
scale, any content and context, stages of
implementation and change-lifecycle
• link everything together into a unified whole
• fractality is our friend in all of this
78. Core requirements for method:
• works the same way everywhere
• work with every type of enterprise, any
scope, scale, content, context, stage
of implementation, change-lifecycle
• link everything into a unified whole
79. CAUTION:
current ‘EA’ methods will often:
• work well for only one type of context
• work well for only one type of enterprise,
scope, scale, content, context, stage of
implementation, or change-lifecycle
• create fragmented ‘walled-gardens’
80. Down to details for method...
• connect strategy to real-world action
• connect big-picture to fine-detail
• keep the whole in mind at all times
(Note: fractality is our friend for this
- the naturally recursive nature of tasks)
83. Rethinking tasks: Action and results
We’ll also need
to track the
outcomes of the
task: the records
of action, and
any variances,
incidents and
insights
arising…
84. Rethinking tasks: Plan and Action
Each task will
need its own
Plan, to resolve
uncertainties,
identify desired
outcomes and
records, and set
up for action…
85. Rethinking tasks: Context and Scope
We’ll need to
ensure that we
know the Scope
and Context for
the action – and
if we don’t know
what these are,
stop until we do
know them…
86. Rethinking tasks: Review and learn
The task is not
complete until
we’ve verified
benefits-realised,
identified the
lessons-learned,
and logged any
tasks-arising…
87. TOGAF does also follow this pattern…
The TOGAF ADM
(Architecture
Development
Method) does
sort-of follow
the same overall
pattern, if with
some parts
hardwired to an
IT-only focus
Context
Scope
Plan
Action
Review
88. what we have now… what we need for this…
…though it does need to be fully fractal
89. Dependencies drive the pattern...
• learning depends on info from action
• action depends on plan and preparation
• planning depends on awareness of scope
• scope for action depends on context
• successful outcomes depend on
doing the right things right,
and improving every time
90. “Do all of this
for the whole enterprise?
- that’s impossibly huge!”
Actually, no, it’s not that hard,
if we remember that one simple trick…
91. How to eat
an elephant?
…one bite
at a time!
(But remember
that it’s always a
whole elephant…)
93. All we have to do is
keep going, keep going,
one step at a time
- then fractality, consistent tools
and consistent methods
will do the rest for us
(mostly, anyway…)
94. Change-mapping provides a
consistent method to do this:
• guide and keep track of change-tasks,
and their provenance and outcomes
• keep track of all interdependencies
within and between change-tasks, and
guide use and re-use of task-outcomes
95. We hide the complexity via
separation of concerns and
separation of roles:
• roles such as Explorer, Pathfinder and
Reporter tackle the tasks for the context of
each mission and its underlying issue
• roles such as Librarian, Coordinator and
Architect tackle connection across all tasks
96. Think of it as like
the departments
in a factory…
1. Context
2. Scope
3. Plan
4. Action
5. Review
…an iterative,
recursive cycle
of change…
…everything
shared in the
centre and its
repository
97. Context-neutral tools and methods
as used in Change-mapping
connect everything, consistently,
across every part of the enterprise
- and keep it simple enough for
everyone to use, everywhere
98. Keep it simple with a folder metaphor
Missions act as
containers for each
set of tasks and
their sub-tasks
(tasks and their folders
may be nested to any
depth that we need)
99. A core concept:
everything is a plug-in tool
(even the method itself is just another plug-in tool…)
Use fractality, dependencies, layering
to link big-picture, context-neutral tools
to all those context-specific tools
that we need for detailed design
100. Use any tool as a plug-in
Every use of a tool is a ‘mini-task’ in its own right,
following the same pattern, invoked in the same way,
with its results stored in the respective folder
101. Change-mapping is already
proven in practice, using paper
forms and physical folders
- what’s needed next is the right software
toolset, such as an expanded Gantt-chart
with fully-fractal task-nesting, task-linking,
plug-in tools and central repository
(any developer interested in this, please get in touch with us!)
104. As enterprise-architects, we can
address a whole-enterprise scope
- any type of enterprise, at any scale,
any context, any type of content, whatever
Let’s do this!
- and link everything together, consistently,
in any way that we need
105. Three takeaways:
1.The purpose of EA is enterprise effectiveness
2.EA must be able to extend to whole-enterprise
3.Tools and methods to do this do already exist
(so let’s use them, make them easier to use)
Conversations on this need to happen
– let’s make them happen!
107. Further information (page 1 of 5)
• (Slide 04) Post-series 'Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard': summary at
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/06/06/towards-a-whole-enterprise-architecture-standard-
summary/
• (Slide 06) Enterprise-effectiveness: post 'A tagline for enterprise effectiveness',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2015/06/02/tagline-for-enterprise-effectiveness/
• (Slide 14) Wikipedia on Dowding system: 'Dowding system',
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system
• (Slide 23) IT-centrism: 'IT-centrism and real-world enterprise-architecture',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2014/03/24/it-centrism-and-real-world-ea/
• (Slide 31) Confusion from the 'BDAT-stack': 'On business-architecture and enterprise-architecture',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2017/07/03/on-ba-and-ea/
• (Slide 32) Consequences of IT-centrism: 'How IT-centrism creeps into enterprise-architecture',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2012/01/30/how-it-centrism-creeps-into-ea/
• (Slide 34) Over-emphasis on 'state': 'The no-plan plan: Architecture dynamics',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2011/10/21/the-no-plan-plan-architecture-dynamics/’
108. Further information (page 2 of 5)
• (Slide 36) Slidedeck 'Same and different: architectures for mass-uniqueness',
https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/same-and-different-architectures-for-massuniqueness
• (Slide 35) Post 'Documenting the Not-known',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2018/05/06/documenting-the-not-known/
• (Slide 36) Post 'Scalability and uniqueness', http://weblog.tetradian.com/2013/04/24/scalability-
and-uniqueness/
• (Slide 37) Post 'More on backbone and edge', http://weblog.tetradian.com/2013/05/04/more-on-
backbone-and-edge/
• (Slide 37) Slidedeck 'Backbone and edge: Architecting the balance between continuity and
change', https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/backbone-and-edge-architecting-the-balance-
between-continuity-and-change
• (Slide 38) Tools as walled-gardens: slidedeck 'Disintegrated enterprise-architecture?',
https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/disintegrated-enterprisearchitecture
• (Slide 38) Post 'Toolsets, pinball and un-dotting the joins',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2015/01/16/toolsets-pinball-and-undotting-joins/
109. Further information (page 3 of 5)
• (Slide 39) Slidedeck 'The enterprise is the story', https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/the-
enterprise-is-the-story-54141263
• (Slide 44) Slidedeck 'Whole-enterprise architecture',
https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/wholeenterprise-architecture
• (Slide 48) Post 'Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 3: Method',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/04/27/towards-a-whole-enterprise-architecture-standard-3-
method/
• (Slide 48) Post 'Towards a whole-enterprise architecture standard – 4: Content',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/05/01/towards-a-whole-enterprise-architecture-standard-4-
content/
• (Slide 52) Post 'An enterprise-architects' mantra', http://weblog.tetradian.com/2014/04/18/an-ea-
mantra/
• (Slide 54) Video 'Introduction to visioning', https://youtu.be/z0ybs2VOI-M
• (Slide 56) Post 'Services and Enterprise Canvas review - 4: Layers',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2014/10/24/services-and-ecanvas-review-4-layers/
110. Further information (page 4 of 5)
• (Slide 61) Video 'Introduction to Holomap stakeholder-mapping', https://youtu.be/dZWFYbGcVgQ
• (Slide 68) Slidedeck 'What's the SCORE?', https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/whats-the-score-
how-to-make-sense-of-a-business-change
• (Slide 68) Video 'Introduction to SCORE', https://youtu.be/SdkhYl7ae0M
• (Slide 70) Video 'Introduction to SCAN complexity-map', https://youtu.be/qvgBIXItVYw
• (Slide 72) Video 'Introduction to Enterprise Canvas core', https://youtu.be/vcaeDwPtsJY
• (Slide 72) Video 'Introduction to Enterprise Canvas support-services',
https://youtu.be/1XscaHoNVTs
• (Slide 72) Post-series ''"Services and Enterprise Canvas review': summary at
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2014/10/29/services-and-ecanvas-review-summary/
• (Slide 75) Post 'Services and Enterprise Canvas review – 5: Service-content',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2014/10/27/services-and-ecanvas-review-5-service-content/
• (Slide 81) Post 'Architecture basics: The structure of a task',
http://weblog.tetradian.com/2021/03/26/architecture-basics-the-structure-of-a-task/
111. Further information (page 5 of 5)
• (Slide 92) Slidedeck 'Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture',
https://www.slideshare.net/tetradian/steppingstones-of-enterprisearchitecture-process-and-
practice-in-the-real-enterprise
• (Slide 94) Video 'Introduction to Change-mapping', https://youtu.be/uey79fSYSNM
• (Slide 102) Change-mapping Books website: http://weblog.tetradian.com/2021/03/26/architecture-
basics-the-structure-of-a-task/