Comments on Agility is Sensible: Live Blogging from Gartner - Wednesday Thread

Well, it's starting to happen. I've been saying t...

2008-12-10T13:37:00.000-06:00

Well, it's starting to happen. I've been saying that if CEO's understood what EA does, there would be no way that they would allow, just from political perspective, EA to report anywhere but straight to them. Philip is mentioning a case where an enlightened CEO understood that.

Aleks

IEEE 1471 specification provides the viewpoints an...

2008-12-10T13:26:00.000-06:00

IEEE 1471 specification provides the viewpoints and Gartner buckets them into Business, Technology and Information with Solution Architecture in the middle. Organizational and Risk concerns are completely missing.

Aleks

It looks like this presentation is skipping a step...

2008-12-10T13:23:00.000-06:00

It looks like this presentation is skipping a step. Philip is going straight from Requirements to Principles to Models. How Principles flow into Models is a missing process - e.g. the Solution Context. The point is that Principles and Models are separated by a Technology Strategy step. Otherwise, trying to keep alignment and linkage between them is relatively difficult.

Aleks

Ah, reality sets in. Socialization is the most im...

2008-12-10T13:20:00.000-06:00

Ah, reality sets in. Socialization is the most important thing before having a meeting! Go figure!

Aleks

Philip is suggesting that a common requirements vi...

2008-12-10T13:16:00.000-06:00

Philip is suggesting that a common requirements vision document be written. Having gone through this a couple of times now, I can't think of a more difficult path to tackle. At least we started on the backend of the SDLC and started ironing out the deployment and QA at the same time. The more I think about it, back to front technique is probably much more productive than front to back. Getting the QA/Deployment ironed out allows for quicker deployment of collected and agreed to requirements, which builds credibility for future releases.

Aleks

I love it - Gartner has adopted our context defini...

2008-12-10T13:04:00.000-06:00

I love it - Gartner has adopted our context definitions - Core and Common have been "leveraged" wholesale, and they are calling Value-Add "Distinct". Cool, nice to know that we're setting the vocabulary for the industry!

A

So, as of October 2008, most EA organizations fall...

2008-12-10T12:52:00.000-06:00

So, as of October 2008, most EA organizations fall in the 2.1 score out of 5 - which Gartner calls ad-hoc, but really means disfunctional :)

Getting Started with EA: The first 200 days with ...

2008-12-10T12:47:00.000-06:00

Getting Started with EA: The first 200 days with Philip Allega

Just to start - I've never been given 200 days to build EA - usually my departments are up in 90 days.

Well, these guys actually built the common service...

2008-12-10T11:08:00.000-06:00

Well, these guys actually built the common services model. Helps when you have the CIO driving this down all the way to the bottom and reorganizing his world to suit the new construction model. Impressive, especially since they are 3x larger than Lincoln.

Aleks