Why Are Enterprises So Complex?

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.

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. You can find show notes at Real World Enterprise Architecture.

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.  You can find show notes at Real World Enterprise Architecture.

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.  You can find show notes at Real World Enterprise Architecture.

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.