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Connecting the DOTS
- The Death
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In
the 21st century,
the “IT” of an
Enterprise is so
inextricably linked
to “The Business” of
an Enterprise, it is
impossible to decide
where “The Business”
stops and “IT”
begins.
In
fact for many
Enterprises today,
“IT” is the business
to a large extent.
So, does this mean
handing over the
management and
direction of the
Enterprise to “IT”?
No. that would be
ludicrous, but so is
thinking in terms of
“The Business” and
“IT”. So what do we
do? How can we
square this circle?
How can we think and
organise enterprises
in the 21st Century?
The answer is to
think in terms of
Connecting the DOTS™
Most
Enterprises organise
themselves around
the tried and tested
“Business” and “IT”
way of thinking, and
their departments
and CxOs. This is
understandable and
has served us well
over the years.
However, this
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concentrates on, and be driven by, the core
strategic capabilities of any Enterprise.
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Enterprise
Transformation Maturity Canvas (ETMC)
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A
Pragmatic
Approach to Maturity Assessment |
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In todays world, the
pressure for
Enterprises to
change is immense
and grows day by
day.
It
comes from internal
pressures (which are
largely under the
control of the
Enterprise), but it
also comes from
external pressures
(which are largely
NOT under the
control of the
Enterprise) such as
changing markets,
changing customer
segments,
legislation,
regulation and
Business models, not
to mention the
inexorable advances
in IT that seem to
only ever
accelerate.
So,
in todays world,
just being able to
change, is not
enough. What
distinguishes
Enterprises these
days is how they
change.
How
effective and
efficient they are
at doing
Transformation. The
era of the
Transformation - of
Transformation.
The
Transformation of
Transformation
begins with
understanding how
mature your
Enterprises
Transformation
capability currently
is, which then
guides what parts
(if any) need
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attendees use the ETMC to begin to consider and
then expose the maturity of their Enterprise
Transformation capability, and to develop
overall findings and recommendations for its
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TOGAF is NOT an EA
Framework
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The
Inconvenient Pragmatic
Truth |
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July 2017
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This books is a
collection of
articles by
Svyatoslav Kotusev, Tom Graves, Orest Roman Swystun, Kevin Lee Smith, Bouateli Abdenour, Graham Berrisford
and Len Fehshkens,
stating why they
believe that TOGAF
is NOT an EA
Framework.
Why did I decide to compile this book?
I believe that TOGAF has done more to damage the EA “profession” (such as it isn’t!) than anything else in the world, and that the EA “profession” would be in a much better place today if TOGAF had never existed.
There are two main confusions that exist with regards to peoples (practitioners and management) understanding of EA.
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Most people (90% perhaps) think that “it’s all about IT”.
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Most people (90% perhaps) think that its all about running (mostly large) IT projects.
And the reason for this mass misunderstanding is because this is what TOGAF tends to push. People are told that TOGAF is an EA framework by the confused majority and so new people believe it to, which of course, adds to the majority thinking and saying the same wrong things.
These fundamental misunderstandings have to be tackled if an EA profession is to exist.
I compiled this book to start a proper debate on the subject and also to allow people to realise that there is a choice out there between which EA frameworks they can use and who they talk to that may have different ideas to The Open Group.
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What is EA
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A
Pragmatic Explanation |
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Enterprise
Architecture has
existed (in many
forms) for a long
time, and there are
many “experts”
around to educate
others. Books and
training courses
abound.
However, EA is
currently at the
same point in time,
as Chemistry was
when Chemists were
Alchemists. So
perhaps a better
term for Enterprise
Architecture is
Enterprise Alchemy
and a better term
for Enterprise
Architects is
Enterprise
Alchemists. (It is
perhaps fitting that
the acronym does not
need to change!).
The parallels
between what EA
claims and what
alchemy claimed are
intriguing.
That
may see flippant or
a pathetic attempt
at humour, however,
in admitting that,
as a profession, EA
is about as mature
as alchemy was
hundreds of years
ago, we have made
the most important
step of all. The
first step. We have
stopped being
unconsciously
incompetent and we
are now concisely
incompetent.
Admitting that EA is
as mature as Alchemy
is big thing. Many
people will not
agree (mostly the
Alchemists!). Many
people have a vested
interest in
presenting
themselves and their
companies as
“experts” even when
their expertise just
turns out to be
“whatever we think”.
The
time has come for a
change. The time has
come for Enterprise
Alchemy to grow up
and Become
Enterprise
Architecture. This
book presents a
information to
define Enterprise
Architecture, and
Architects in a
Pragmatic fashion.
It does not purport
to be the end of the
road. But it does
try to be the
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popular frameworks such as Zachman,
TOGAF, POET, PEAF, COBIT and ITIL fit
in, the fundamental differences between
Architecture & Engineering, the two
types of Enterprise Architect (the role)
and over 50 keypoints to help focus the
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The Culture of
Enterprise Transformation
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The
Inconvenient Pragmatic Truth |
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July 2017
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The biggest enemy of
Enterprise
Transformation is
Culture.
Do
not underestimate
the power of
culture. Do not
underestimate the
power of culture. Do
not underestimate
the power of
culture.
Culture trumps
Everything™ is much
much more than just
a saying. It is a
very cold hard fact,
which if ignored,
literally has the
capacity to destroy
civilisations.
For
any human based
system, you can
change as many
Methods as you like,
define as many
Artefacts as you
like and change the
Environment used
(including IT) until
the cows come home,
but like a cork
bobbing in the sea,
they are utterly
insignificant
compared to the
churning seas of
Culture. Even when
the sea appears calm
there can be
dangerous
undercurrents and
hidden dangers that
can sink the
unsinkable. All
Enterprises have to
navigate the
icebergs of culture,
but many of them do
not realise that
they can only see
10% of the iceberg.
From
personal experience:
5% of the time, that
equates to Culture
Enables Everything™.
95% of the time,
that equates to
Culture Screws Up
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attendees thinking in terms of culture,
different ways to think about it, the
role psychology plays, how the two tribes
of "the business" and "IT" contrast, and
over 40 keypoints to help focus the
mind.
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EA Tools
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A
Pragmatic Approach to Selection and Adoption
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This
book is presents the concepts required to understand an EA Modelling Tool, what it used for, what information must be modelled, and pragmatic methods for adoption and use.
Many Enterprises already have some kind of EA Modelling Tool, that are being actively used for the purpose of Enterprise Architecture, aka creating and maintaining Structural (Capability) and Transformational (Portfolio) Roadmaps. But those Enterprises are in the minority.
Many, many more have either no EA Modelling Tool at all, or they have one but have found that it has not lived up to expectations and sits gathering dust on the shelf or being used as glorified reporting tool and generally providing questionable (if any) returns.
Having witnessed many failures, this book sets out the Methods, Artefacts and Environment required to effectively choose and operate an EA Modelling Tool. It covers the key things that must be done to effectively and efficiently; choose a tool, and then to operate it in a sustainable way.
If the Management decides to choose (or replace) and operate an EA modelling tool effectively, then this book sets out all that is required to do so. Pragmatically.
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The remainder of the day is a hands-on workshop where you will formulate your own tailored approach for selection, define which requirements are key to you, and develop a shortlist.
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EA on LinkedIn©
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Arguments & Apologies, Diatribes & Debates |
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May 2017
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This
book is volume 1 of
a set, containing
conversations the
author has had with
hundreds of people
on LinkedIn© on the
subject of
Enterprise
Architecture.
Subsequent volumes
continue the
discussion from
where it left of in
the previous
version.
There
are no dates as
such, but the set
generally covers
2010 to 2014 at
which point I
stopped because I
had been put on
moderation or banned
from most of the
groups where
discussions were
going on that it was
pointless to
continue. They had
won.
I
have published it
not necessarily so
people can see the
content (although
that is useful in
itself) but more
because I think it’s
useful for people to
witness how these
debates “work”.
Perhaps it would be
useful as a
Psychology analysis
regarding how online
conversations are
conducted. Also,
parts of it are
quite funny ;-)
No
apologies are given
for the numerous
spelling mistakes
and other
grammatical faux
pas! Who cares about
grammar – it’s the
debate that’s
important.
People always talk
about a civil level
of discourse. Well,
who is to say what a
civil level of
discourse is? Plenty
of people enjoy the
rough and tumble of
debate. People enjoy
tabloid journalism;
people enjoy all
different kinds of
discourses. If group
owners on LinkedIn©
regulate how we can
speak, the tone in
which we can have
debates, the
language we can use,
is going to find
that all the
interesting people,
all the creatives,
all the most
fascinating
personalities are
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Transformation Debt™
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A
Pragmatic
Approach
to
Enterprise
Transformation
Governance |
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If
the Management
decides to control
(manage) Enterprise
Debt™, then this
book sets out all
that is required to
do so. If the
Management decides
not to control
(manage) Enterprise
Debt™, then this
book will provide an
idea of the
potential problems
of not doing so.
Many
Enterprises already
have some kind of
governance with
respect to
Enterprise
Transformation.
Sadly, many of the
Methods (and
Artefacts) employed
are deeply flawed.
Governance tends to
be either a tick in
the box exercise or
a policing exercise.
Having witnessed the
failure of many
Transformation/change
initiatives over 35
years, I have
created a new way of
effecting
Governance, with
addition of the
crucial Lobbying
component that is
missing in most
Enterprises. The
changes required to
utilise Enterprise
Debt™ are small but
the effects can be
truly game changing.
One
thing is for sure.
All Enterprises fit
into one of two
camps:
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Either the
Enterprise
controls
(manages)
Enterprise
Debt™, or
-
Transformation Debt™
will control the
Enterprise.
Which
camp an Enterprise
falls into, is up
to the Management to
decide…
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practice defining the Transformation Debt™ when those principles are violated, and making decisions to accept the debt created or provide the resources required.
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PF2 |
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The
Pragmatic
Family
of
Frameworks |
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PF2 provides
a set of
fundamental
thoughts, ideas,
definitions,
ontologies and
introduces the
Pragmatic Family
of Frameworks
that use these
things as their
superclass.
Pragmatic
asserts that
every Enterprise
consists of four
distinct
conceptual parts
which a) totally
and completely
defines all
Enterprises
without overlaps
or gaps, b) are
the most
fundamentally
important to the
Board and the
sustainability
of the
Enterprise and
c) have
different
operating
models,
different
cultures,
different
languages,
different
drivers,
different
mind-sets,
different tools,
different
processes,
different
artefacts, etc.
It is this new
way of thinking
about Enterprise
that unlocks the
understanding to
mature them in a
sustainable
pragmatic way.
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Enterprise
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"The only
constant is
change!" has
been the battle
cry for many
years but just
being able to
deal with change
is no longer
enough. The new
battle cry is
"The only
constant is the
acceleration of
change!".
How an
Enterprise
effects the
whole of
Transformation
is becoming a
Strategic
Strength or a
Strategic
Weakness, where
massive business
opportunities
can be gained or
massive business
problems will
result.
POET allows
those involved
in the
Transformation
of Enterprises
(from the "Chief
Transformation
Officer" to
those physically
deploying the
changes, and all
those in
between) to take
a coherent and
holistic view
(Methods,
Artefacts,
Culture and
Environment) of
the
Transformation
part of an
Enterprise (from
Strategy to
Deployment) to
allow Executive
Management (by
enabling
informed
decisions) to
improve it.
Not the
Transformation
of Operations,
but the
Transformation
of
Transformation,
to better enable
the
Transformation
of Operations.
Who should read
POET? Anyone and
everyone that is
involved in the
Transformation
of Enterprises.
More
specifically,
POET is of most
use to the CEO,
COO, CIO and CTO
and the wider
executive team
for it is they
who have the
Accountability
and
Responsibility
for the
Efficient and
Effective design
of the
Enterprise
Transformation
Processes.
Ultimately the
person who would
get most benefit
would be the
Chief
Transformation
Officer (CXO) -
a role that does
not currently
exist in 99.9%
of all
Enterprises.
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whole of the transformation domain (from
Strategy to Deployment) and the common
patterns of methods and artefacts that
allow an organisation to tactically
improve parts of it while preserving the
effectiveness and efficiency of the
whole. It sets the context for
Enterprise Architecture in terms of
where it fits in, and where it doesn’t.
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PEAF
asserts that people
working within the
Strategising and
Roadmapping phases
of Transformation
already know how to
do what they do. The
problem is not them.
The problem is the
context (Methods,
Artefacts, Cultural
and Environmental
things) that they
are forced to work
within.
PEAF
does not tell you
how to be a CxO,
Executive, Strategic
Planner, Enterprise
Architect, Business
Architect, Solution
Architect, Portfolio
Planner, Portfolio
Manager, etc, etc,
etc.
What
PEAF does do is
expose a holistic
environment and
context of Methods,
Artefacts, Culture
and Environment that
all of those people
exist within. The
glue that brings all
the parts together
into a choreographed
whole which makes
the whole so much
more than just the
summation of its
parts.
PEAF
aims to increase the
maturity
(effectiveness and
efficiency) of that
context, enabling
people to achieve
their full
potential.
Increasing the
maturity of the
context they work
within, to one that
supports, enables
and makes their work
easier rather than
one which hinders,
impedes and makes
their work more
difficult.
PEAF
places its emphasis
on the one practical
issue that causes
the most problems
for EA efforts: how
to get started and
keep going,
delivering real and
verifiable results
within the
constraints and
complex, challenging
realities of any
large Enterprise.
PEAF
was born out of
failure - out of
identifying all the
myriad of ways in
which EA efforts
fail in real
business practice,
and then devising
ways to prevent
these sources of
failure from
occurring.
PEAF
(ISBN:978-1-908424-10-5)
inherits and builds
on POET
(ISBN:978-1-908424-07-5).
Therefore reading
and understanding
PEAF requires that
you have previously
read and understood
POET
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PEAF Certified training
concentrates on the specifics of the EA
domain and sets out the fundamental
pieces to be put in place to be
successful.
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