Sunday 29 September 2013

My Definition of Enterprise Architecture

Someone recently asked me to define what an Enterprise Architect is.  I'm usually pretty good with definitions, but this time I was stuck.  I went to Google and found out I wasn't the only one.

After some thought, here is my attempt at a definition:

Enterprise architecture is a practise concerned with:

  1. Business - technology alignment
  2. Disciplined Innovation (innovation where it is needed)
  3. Disciplined delivery (not re-inventing the wheel; consistency with past efforts; repeatability)
  4. Proactive solutions (proposing solutions when systems no longer support needed business capabilities)
I hope to have time to elaborate more on this a bit later.


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