Comments on: Pinning enterprise architecture to the org chart

By: Wilbert’s work blog» Blog Archive » Enterprise Architecture throws out bath water, saves baby in the nick of time

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:38:31 +0000

[…] That can be addressed by going out of your way to go to “the business”, talk it’s language, worry about its concerns and generally go as native as you can. This is popular to the point of architects getting as far away from dirty, *dirty* IT as possible in the org chart. […]

By: Mike Rollings

Mike Rollings — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:48:12 +0000

John,

I agree that we need to erase the divide between business and IT. We are all businesspeople. The more we remember that IT’s primary purpose is to enable business outcomes, the more healthy EA and IT will become.

Mike Rollings
Research Director
Burton Group

By: John Townsend

John Townsend — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:12:50 +0000

Thanks Wilbert, very useful summary & links to presentations. Not surprisingly, I agree with quite a lot of what’s in the Westbrock & Rollins presentations – but whilst I’m pleased to see the Open Group getting into the discussion about IT/Business Architectures etc, can’t help feeling that it perpetuates the view that somehow IT & the Business are separate things.

Also whilst I can easiily agree that EA is not something you are, but something you do (haven’t I heard that before somewhere?) & also that Architecture approaches should be embedded in the organisation, not just carried out by ‘Architects’, I think that given the level of maturity in EA in a lot of organisations – particularly EA beyond IT – there’s quite a journey still to be made, & a need for some directions/roadmaps.