James Allen

IT is riddled with TLAs and acronyms but one of the latest debates/email discussions on the “The Enterprise Architecture Network” LinkedIn group caught my eye. Linkedin group here:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Enterprise-Architecture-Network-36781?goback=%2Egdr_1305830232662_1%2Egmp_36781%2Egde_36781_member_53640464

Is it Enterprise Architecture, EA or Enterprise IT Architecture, EITA?!?!?!  To understand further what all the fuss was about I came across this presentation from the Open Group:

https://www.opengroup.org/conference-live/uploads/40/21399/ReThinkingArchitecture.pdf

IMHO, it doesn’t matter which term you use, it can all be put in to context and as long as there is a framework to work to this can form the basis for going forward. Maybe the discussion should be around what is the most suitable framework or how business lead a Enterprise project should be lead.

I don’t pretend to understand all these methodologies, frameworks and theories but definitely believe there is something to learn from them.

Anyway, interested to hear your thoughts.

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Tags: architecture, EA, EITA, framework, methodologies