Everyday Enterprise-Architecture by Tom Grave
Jul 29, 2010
It is nice to see the evolutin of next generation enterprise architecture is echoing the Light EA direction. In addition to the Gartner's New Approach for Enterprise Architecture
Tom Grave have also published the every day Enterprise-Architecture . Thanks for his generasity , at present you can still download the complete PDF e-book via this link.
In Anything Enterprise Architecture, Tom Grave reply to the discussion on Gartner's new approach for EA. He said:
Several people above have remarked on the usefulness of the Cynefin framework. I strongly agree, and have used similar ideas in enterprise-architecture and strategic assessment for many years - see, for example, my book Everyday Enterprise Architecture: sensemaking, strategy, structures.... Do be warned, though, that Dave Snowden, the current custodian of Cynefin, has very strong views on how Cynefin should and should not be interpreted, and will likely disagree in no uncertain terms to many typical usages of the Cynefin frame in EA. It's probably safest to refer to that mapping of Simple [aka Known], Complicated [aka Knowable], Complex and Chaotic, and the contrast of order and unorder, as a 'Cynefin categorisation' or a 'Cynefin-like frame', rather than 'as' Cynefin itself.
(More detail here, if anyone's interested.)
John Wu and others also referred to Wu Xing (Five Elements), a traditional Chinese framework that's even more layered and meaning-rich than Cynefin. Interestingly, it also aligns well with Bruce Tuckman's 'Group Dynamics' project-lifecycle of forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. There's more detail on that, and its application in EA and EA-related work, in the 'Five Elements' chapters in my book SEMPER & SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness. There are also strong cross-links between the Five Elements and key themes in organisational effectiveness (efficient, reliable, elegant, appropriate, integrated): as documented in another of my books, Real Enterprise Architecture: beyond IT to the whole enterprise, this provides a very useful framework for architectural assessment and review at a whole-of-enterprise scope.
If we start from there, Gartner's 'new approach' then provides a very useful checklist and cross-reference to guide a true enterprise-scope architecture.
Hope this helps, anyway.
Tom Grave have also published the every day Enterprise-Architecture . Thanks for his generasity , at present you can still download the complete PDF e-book via this link.
In Anything Enterprise Architecture, Tom Grave reply to the discussion on Gartner's new approach for EA. He said:
Several people above have remarked on the usefulness of the Cynefin framework. I strongly agree, and have used similar ideas in enterprise-architecture and strategic assessment for many years - see, for example, my book Everyday Enterprise Architecture: sensemaking, strategy, structures.... Do be warned, though, that Dave Snowden, the current custodian of Cynefin, has very strong views on how Cynefin should and should not be interpreted, and will likely disagree in no uncertain terms to many typical usages of the Cynefin frame in EA. It's probably safest to refer to that mapping of Simple [aka Known], Complicated [aka Knowable], Complex and Chaotic, and the contrast of order and unorder, as a 'Cynefin categorisation' or a 'Cynefin-like frame', rather than 'as' Cynefin itself.
(More detail here, if anyone's interested.)
John Wu and others also referred to Wu Xing (Five Elements), a traditional Chinese framework that's even more layered and meaning-rich than Cynefin. Interestingly, it also aligns well with Bruce Tuckman's 'Group Dynamics' project-lifecycle of forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. There's more detail on that, and its application in EA and EA-related work, in the 'Five Elements' chapters in my book SEMPER & SCORE: enhancing enterprise effectiveness. There are also strong cross-links between the Five Elements and key themes in organisational effectiveness (efficient, reliable, elegant, appropriate, integrated): as documented in another of my books, Real Enterprise Architecture: beyond IT to the whole enterprise, this provides a very useful framework for architectural assessment and review at a whole-of-enterprise scope.
If we start from there, Gartner's 'new approach' then provides a very useful checklist and cross-reference to guide a true enterprise-scope architecture.
Hope this helps, anyway.