Tom Graves / Tetradian

It’s taken me about three days to wind down after the flat-out networking / talk-fest that was the TOGAF conference. Today I’ve had to plough my way through something like 45 presentations and half a dozen complete books on various aspects of enterprise architecture just to be able to write all of my ‘thank you it was great talking with you’ emails…

But yes, reviewing all those presentations has reinforced that sense of a quantum shift in understanding as to what enterprise architecture actually is – namely the architecture of the enterprise as a whole, not just its IT. The big driver for the change seems to be SOA (service oriented architecture) – seems the IT types are discovering that they can’t get it to work without extensive business involvement. Hmm…

Was not wonderfully amused to discover that a fair bit of what I said last year, which at that time they pretty much dismissed out of hand, is now all but word-for-word in their ‘new’ description of ‘business architecture’. Humph. At least it is getting through, though.

Felt bizarrely jetlagged for at least a couple of days after coming back – odd because it’s only an hour’s flight and it doesn’t cross any time-zones, but it still feels like jetlag. Didn’t help that the flight was an hour and half late getting in to Stansted, which meant I was decidedly late for meetup in London with Dave Snowden and the Cynefin / Cognitive Edge crew. Glad I did, though, because I had some great conversations about organisational complexity which dovetailed really nicely with the enterprise architecture ideas from earlier in the week.

A real sense of movement happening in both spaces, and worthwhile movement at that. Good.

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