Jason Bloomberg’s new Bloomberg Agile Architecture is a great new example of practical, adaptable, and flexible applied enterprise architecture. This new technique differentiates itself from the traditional heavyweight do-everything subtractive frameworks (i.e., you discard pieces of the framework you think you don’t need) by instead taking an additive approach that incorporates elements, artefacts, and capabilities as they are found to be required in order to deliver a particular business outcome. There’s much to like about this approach.
The danger for enterprise architecture is that the academic energies wasted mewling sheeplike after the frameworks and the certifications are preventing us from forming constructive connections with our customers, partners, and stakeholders, and inject bedazzling interfering distractions that prevent fulfilling the mission and promise of business-outcome-focused enterprise architecture. Curiously, the more of us that become certified in a common framework, the better the chances of those frameworks being improved, of architects developing common vocabulary and process, and the better the chances of certification’s value becoming clear and visible.
Read the entire article at http://actionable.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/all-we-like-sheep-have-gone-astray/.
