Comments on Agility is Sensible: The Holy Grail of Enterprise Architecture?

Chris - Excellent point. Oversight is just one ...

2009-11-12T11:08:46.351-06:00

Chris -

Excellent point. Oversight is just one of the major responsibilities of EA, not THE responsibility of EA. I'm also going to take your suggestion on a separate post of whether governance is truly a bottleneck - as it is so often perceived.

AAB

A liitle phrase slipped into this post - perhaps u...

2009-11-11T12:24:06.641-06:00

A liitle phrase slipped into this post - perhaps unnoticed by others...."but managing that risk is the job of any oversight organization such as Enterprise Architecture..."

The implication of this statement is that EA is an oversight organization. If that is so, then I think it bodes poorly for EA. Governance is almsot always seen as barrier to innovation. Whether true or not is a subject for a different post.

I would hope that EA is on the value creation side of the fence, not simply pigeon-holed as a governance organization

That's a bit more time, effort and costly research...

2009-10-12T10:36:35.166-05:00

That's a bit more time, effort and costly research than I would have gone into, but hopefully it'll work out for them.

This sounds an awful lot like the search for bette...

2009-10-11T19:55:31.401-05:00

This sounds an awful lot like the search for better software development techniques, dating back to the 1970's. That theoretical work resulted in a number of marginally useful improvements. Perhaps SAAS will some day reduce all software to a finite set of robust, customizable modules. For now, most development is still done the old fashioned way, guided by skill, experience and principles from the likes of "The Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan and Plauger.

Maybe the EA field can avoid some of the detours taken in the software development world by sticking to principles and not wasting too much time looking for the grail.