I am conducting research into the practices of enterprise architecture and software development and would love your participation. The URL to the survey is:...
Quote of the day: CHAOS debunked and Standish discredited? The Standish Report has been a longstanding IT bugaboo, consistently indicating abysmally low...
Hi: This community, from my experience, is a natural fit for a growing labor requirement I'm seeking to fill. It's also a great fit for those comfortable with...
Element versus enterprise configuration management from www.erp4it.com The term "configuration management" continues to be a badly overloaded phrase, with...
Service Modeling Language OK, this is one in a long list of things on my personal radar that I haven't covered recently - July Computerworld article on the new...
Challenging the IT Skeptic OK, let's make one thing clear: I really like the IT Skeptic's site <http://www.itskeptic.org/> ; unlike too much ITIL twaddle, he...
Betz has over time thrown out some interesting ideas related to ERP4IT. I am curious if anyone out there has considered turning some of it into usable software...
Have you seen http://www.avalanche.coop/ ? ... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James McGovern Sent: Saturday,...
In particular - just revisiting their site - they are explicitly developing an "IT Resource Planning" system... http://oitdashboard.avalanche.coop/ ... From:...
Is Configuration Management a process? <http://erp4it.typepad.com/node/45#comment-100> Actually, I don't agree that Configuration Management on its own is a ...
Charles asks on his blog-entry of Sept 15 (see http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2006/09/two_key_distinc.html) ... I think of an event of something that happens...
HI Brad, good to hear from you. I think we are saying the same thing. Event as the best consensus name for the overall supertype is perhaps debatable; it does...
... Which is the CI here? The data? or the transport of the data? I would think the "flow" of the data is akin to the transaction (and therefore not a CI)...
... Hmmn - I definitely have not been trying to solve the same set of problems in the same domains as you, but I wonder if Im onto something similar to what...
... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brad Appleton Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:39 AM To: erp4it@yahoogroups.com...
Hi Charles! Thanks for the response ... ... I wonder if what you are calling "Data" is what I could call the Project (Logical) view? I guess I distinguish...
... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jqpearson Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:41 PM To: erp4it@yahoogroups.com ...
Hi Joe! I'll answer what I can as best I'm able ... I'm familiar with CMII. They try and take an enterprise view of CM. Their idea of "Enterprise CM" quite...
I was very surprised that that spam message got through, I had the group set so that new members's posts are moderated and we certainly haven't had any posts...
... Well - in a presentation I gave back in July, I attempted to make the case that CM is a form of architecture. I said it was "The Architecture of the...
Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge Be sure to check out Mitre's Enterprise Architecture Body of <http://www.mitre.org/tech/eabok/> Knowledge - while a...
Enterprise Architecture Body of Knowledge Be sure to check out Mitre's Enterprise Architecture Body of <http://www.mitre.org/tech/eabok/> Knowledge - while a...
Thought for the day: the convergence of enterprise architecture and portfolio management In reading the <http://www.mitre.org/tech/eabok> Enterprise...
Charles, Personally, don't see how you can disengage the two. The overall master plan (enterprise architecture) i.e. where do we need to be heading with the...
Yes, it makes logical sense. But the (still heterogeneous) career path for most enterprise architects does not prepare them for this role - I would estimate...