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Navigate Business Architecture-Myth of the Constant Over the past few weeks we explored governance. I hope you have moved past the mythical sounding governance conversations. Governance is simple-it is just the method an organization uses to provide direction and hold itself accountable to meet objectives. Explore TOGAF Certification Training While we wish for a simple delegation-crisp, clear, singular authoritative decision maker-our organizations are designed to specialize. Sales exists to engage prospects and close the deal. Manufacturing exists to make things. Product exists to own delighting the customers. Support, recovering when those customers are sad. Every one of these functions owns part of a critical question. In our profession, enterprise architecture, to guide change we must understand the decision space. We must understand who can direct […]

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Navigate Best Practice-Following Authority Tracks Last week, we talked about the governance physics of the Blank Page. The blank page is central to Carver’s governance model and the TOGAF implementation governance checklist. Carver calls out the blank page as the delegated decision space. You only test compliance to a stakeholder’s architecture decision. No decision, nothing to test. With a blank page, any implementation choice is acceptable. Explore TOGAF Certification Training The TOGAF ADM approves the Target Architecture in Phase F. The logic of Phase F is even more interesting-the  target architecture approval trigger is approval of the Implementation Plan. Targets are formally approved when they are funded. When your organization puts its scarce change resources on the line. Let’s continue the logic. Authority to approve […]

Strong Enterprise Architecture Ensures Value Materializes Last week we started talking about strong enterprise architecture. The type that improves successful organizations like we have. Real organizations. Organizations that are not broken, and are not happy. Organizations where every change proposal must earn permission to interfere with current successful operation. Explore TOGAF Certification Training The professional bar for enterprise architecture are change proposals that gain permission. Permission to spend scarce resources. Permission to put current success at risk. Over the years we been privileged to help build great EA teams. The best-practice teams that changed their organization’s story. We’ve lived on all sides of transformative architecture projects that changed the story. Throughout, we have continually honed what it means to be a best practice enterprise architect. […]