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Is Enterprise Architecture the Solution to Business / IT Misfits?

September 10, 2010

If you believe a lot of marketing around Enterprise Architecture it is. But in the practice the overkill of EA strategies and implementation really brings a lot to mind when it comes to solutions on Business and IT misfits. IT doesn’t support Business as much as it should. IT doesn’t push Business as hard as [...]

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The Ambiguity of Large Scale Projects

September 10, 2010

Although most of us realize that projects need to get smaller. Actual small IT projects barely exist. When we look at integration and migration projects. Designing new Business processes and aligning technological solutions to mach those, we open a large number of organizational challenges. Especially integration projects can contain a lot of misconceptions in the [...]

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The Essence of Visualizing your Business/IT Strategy

September 6, 2010

I’ve never met anyone who loves think, extensive reports, not even for their essential strategies. But we still create them. Why? Because we think it’s important. Working out the first steps in Business & IT strategies is essential, but we need to brighten up a bit. Lean and Agile thinking works on this principle. We [...]

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CreativITy at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop, JavaOne 2010

August 26, 2010

Oracle’s OpenWorld conference sure looks promising this year. Lot’s of insightful, technical in-depth sessions and personally I’m looking forward to what this years keynotes have to offer. Great new stuff? More integration of Sun and Oracle products? (It’s the first OOW since the acquisition got official.). Today I decided to offer some input in the [...]

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Agile Enterprise Architecture: Two Way Traffic

July 30, 2010

Yesterday evening, my new Whitebook about Agile Enterprise Architecture (see here, in Dutch) got published. In this Whitebook I pointed out that developing Enterprise Architecture is a Two Way process. And that it should be build Agile. First of all, a Business Case should be leading in the choices that are made in the architecture. [...]

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Business and IT, Everything is Entangled

July 22, 2010

Opening up all cliches on Business and IT alignment. Yesterday, I had a discussion on how IT really could solve business problems. One of the statements that came by was that we simply needed to listen to the business in order to understand what IT has to do. This is, in my opinion, a bit [...]

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