Tom Graves / Tetradian

Here’s the slidedeck for “Enterprise-architecture on purpose”, my presentation to the Open Group conference in Rome, April 2010. It’s a slight departure from my usual slidedecks in that there’s no embedded script in the ‘Notes’ view; instead, I’ve used more slides in a more visual way and tried to make it more self-explanatory.

As one wag put it on Twitter, “Better than EA by accident”, but actually the “on purpose” bit in the title was more about the importance of purpose and vision in resolving executive-level problems in a whole-of-enterprise architecture. It includes two brief real-world examples (mildly modified for confidentiality-reasons): a social-services data-quality problem, and a bank’s problem of lost trust and respect.

See my other presentations on Slideshare for other aspects of whole-of-enterprise architecture practice.

Sounds a simple-enough question, no doubt, but seems to me that most nominal ‘enterprise architects’ have never even bothered to ask it. The usual answer would seem to be ‘the organization’, or worse, ‘the IT department’…

I’ve posted up on Slideshare a new slidedeck, “What is an enterprise?”, which aims to demonstrate a more realistic answer to the question. Nice and brief – only 10 slides.

Share and enjoy, perhaps?

Realised that the free-download reference-sheets from the Tetradian Enterprise Architecture books would be useful to have up on Slideshare as well, so have uploaded them there for more general accessibility than solely from the Tetradian Books website.

• “A framework for whole-of-enterprise architecture” – the amended-Zachman reference-sheet from Bridging the Silos: enterprise architecture for IT-architects
  
• “A revised TOGAF ADM for whole-of-enterprise architecture development” – the amended-ADM reference-sheet from Bridging the Silos: enterprise architecture for IT-architects
• “Power and Response-ability – a workplace ‘Manifesto’” – the PDF version of the ‘manifesto’ from the Introduction to Power and Response-ability: the human side of systems
  • (note: a Powerpoint version of the ‘manifesto’ is also available on Slideshare)

A minor glitch in that they ended up as ‘Presentations’ rather than ‘Documents’: anyone know how to fix this? There doesn’t seem to be anything about it in the rather limited online help on Slideshare itself: odd…

Hope it helps, anyways.

And the last in the current series of slide-decks that I’ve placed on Slideshare.

This one’s from early 2007, and describes some of the analysis that I did at that period to find ways to break free from the usual IT-centric constraints of so-called ‘enterprise’ architecture. Full title is Whole-of-enterprise architecture: Extending enterprise architecture beyond IT. Some of the slides have been re-used in other presentations in this series, but the detailed content is specific to this example. Hope you find it useful, anyway.

Another slide-deck from a fair while back (2001, in this case), but still seems relevant today. Many of its quotes reference a section in The Economist edited by Peter Drucker, about ‘the business of the future’.

[It's in PDF format, as the 'Notes View' of the PowerPoint, soslides and script together.]

Another item from my slide-deck collection: this one’s based on some work I did for a client in 2007 on extending Zachman and TOGAF to meet their whole-enterprise architecture needs. It describes TOGAF 8, but much the same applies to TOGAF 9.

A colleague reminded me that I have a Slideshare account, and that I should long since have put some of my Tetradian slide-decks up on the net. So here’s the first of this brief series: my presentation from the TOGAF conference in Paris in April 2007.