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Busting 5 Enterprise Architecture Myths

June 8, 2010
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First Group CIO Chris Boult and I are speaking today at the CIO Executive Summit in Cincinnati about enterprise architecture. As its adoption continues to challenge many, Chris and I decided to discuss and bust these 5 myths: EA is what IT uses to plan its technology You can’t measure it Architects only pontificate, they don’t work EA doesn’t work with an SDLC If you subscribe to SOA, you don’t need EA Enterprise Architecture is ...

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A Resurgence of Portfolio Management?

January 21, 2010
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by Chris Curran and Jim Quick Portfolio management was all the rage 5-6 years ago, driven in part by some good management thinking from people like Peter Weill at MIT CISR and Dr. Howard Rubin and in part by some software tool vendors.  Back then, most organizations added some kind of portfolio thinking or at least dabbled with it.  While most of the interest seemed to be in the IT organization, some organizations actually drove ...

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How to Fix IT Planning

December 17, 2009

In response to the last post on the sad state of IT planning, one commenter noted: This planning is deeply flawed, even if you “fix” it as described. An effective organization is not a collection of competing interests, and IT is not a resource to be divvied up. Where is the organization’s overall strategy and goals in this scenario? How will organization-wide improvement occur when projects are isolated into departmental silos? These are all good ...

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