Jason Bloomberg is right to point to the failure of traditional EA, and TOGAF (he should look at tradition Project Management in IT, which is even more of farce). But he seems to have difficulty with concepts of classification and understanding what the issues really are.
1. Buckets that are not buckets – he suggests TOGAF users fall into four buckets; those that achieve: very little (because the apply TOGAF incorrectly), a baseline (that helps to resolve legacy issues), help addressing specific business outcomes and those that want to deal better with change overall, and look to EA to help them become more agile. Many users: achieve very little, but do establish a baseline (that helps a bit with legacy issues) and they do address a few specific business outcomes. Most want to deal better with change overall. So it just doesn’t make sense to say most fall into one of these four buckets – most don’t fall into any – but sit across many.
Read the entire article at http://enterprisesto.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/some-other-than-me-pointing-some-issues.html.
