All Episodes
Episode 1 - What is the Real Value of Enterprise Architecture?
Eventually every enterprise architect is faced with this question: What is the value of enterprise architecture? This episode answers that question.
Episode 2 - Three Brands of Enterprise Architecture?
There is no single way to approach enterprise architecture. Don’t let anyone tell you there is. But there are three basic schools of thought that cover the gamut of enterprise architecture practices. This episode will explain those three “brands” of enterprise architecture.
Episode 3 - Enterprise Architecture Cornerstones: Part 1 of 3
This is the first of a three-part series on the cornerstones of enterprise architecture. I introduced these cornerstones in Episode 1 (What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture?). The three cornerstones are: (1) alignment, (2) guidance and (3) explanation. This episode discusses alignment.
Episode 4 - Enterprise Architecture Cornerstones: Part 2 of 3
This is the second episode in the three-part series on the cornerstones of enterprise architecture. I introduced these cornerstones in Episode 1 (What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture?). The three cornerstones are: (1) alignment, (2) guidance and (3) explanation. This episode discusses guidance.
Episode 5 - Enterprise Architecture Cornerstones: Part 3 of 3
This is the third episode in the three-part series on the cornerstones of enterprise architecture. I introduced these cornerstones in Episode 1 (What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture?). The three cornerstones are: (1) alignment, (2) guidance and (3) explanation. This episode discusses explanation.
Episode 6 - Why Are Enterprises So Complex?
In several previous episodes I’ve said that an enterprise in not like other kinds of systems. It’s much more complex. In this episode I’d like to get into why that’s true, what it is about an enterprise that makes it a very special kind of system.
Episode 7 - The Problem with the EA Playbook
In this episode I tackle, head on, the time-honored enterprise architecture playbook we have all been taught, questioning whether it really works and asking if maybe there isn’t a better way.
Episode 8 - What Enterprise Architects Can Learn from Detective Harry Bosh
Harry Bosch is a fictional detective, a character created by best-selling mystery writer Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch has a motto and a way of doing things that just might come in useful to enterprise architects.
Episode 9 - Enterprise Architecture is Dying
In this episode I tackle the assertion that enterprise architecture is dying, or perhaps even dead. Are the assertions correct? Is there not at least some truth to them? Or is it all just a bunch of bunk?
Episode 10 - Short History of Enterprise Architecture (Part 1)
This is the first part in a short series on the history of enterprise architecture. In this episode, I describe the introduction of the computer into the enterprise, and along with it the birth of what would become enterprise architecture.
Episode 11 - Short History of Enterprise Architecture (Part 2)
This is the second part in a short series on the history of enterprise architecture. In this episode, I describe the rise of the PC, the internet and client-server computing, and with them the coalescence of rigorous enterprise architecture practices.
Episode 12 - Short History of Enterprise Architecture (Part 3)
This is the third and final part in a short series on the history of enterprise architecture. In this episode, I describe how the rise of SOA, cloud, agile and DevOps fundamentally disrupted the practice of enterprise architecture.
Episode 13 - The Promise of Event-Driven Architectures
In this episode, I discuss the rise of event-driven architectures and why they are important in enterprise architecture. I explain the basics of event-driven architectures, and I talk about advantages and disadvantages. And I compare event-driven architectures to other kinds of architectures.