The EA Pad

Enterprise Architecture approaches are used to provide rigorous descriptions of the organization-wide environment, manage the alignment of deployed services to the organization’s mission, end ensure a clear separation of the concerns addressed in an architecture. Thus, an effective Enterprise Architecture approach assists in the management of relations and dependencies of any components of the organization … Read more

Digitization is rapidly changing the role that IT teams play in their companies but certainly isn’t diminishing their importance. Read more here

In this report, Gartner analysts Samantha Searle and Marc Kerremans evaluated 11 companies that provide Enterprise Architecture (EA) solutions, and positioned them in four quadrants: leaders, visionaries, challengers, and niche players. The report describes the current state of the market for EA tools and goes into detail about each vendor’s positioning. Read more here

Joe McKendrick: From microservices enablement to device communications, architectural approaches will keep IoT aligned with business designs. Read more here

Gregor Hohpe: Many large organizations see their IT engine separated by many floors from the executive penthouse, which also separates business and digital strategy from the vital work of carrying it out. The primary role of an architect is to ride the elevators between the penthouse and engine room, stopping wherever is needed to support … Read more

This is the first book to seriously address the disconnection between nimble Agile teams and other groups in the enterprise, including enterprise architecture, the program management office (PMO), human resources, and even business executives. When an enterprise experiments with practice improvements, software development teams often jump on board with excitement, while other groups are left … Read more