Beyond the Blueprints: Adventures in Enterprise Architecture
There’s a running joke in IT circles that enterprise architects spend their days drawing boxes and arrows in Visio while the “real work” happens elsewhere. I’ve been that person with the arrows, and I’m here to tell you: those diagrams are just the tip of a fascinating iceberg.
Welcome to my corner of the digital world, where I’ll be sharing stories from the trenches of enterprise architecture – the triumphs, the disasters, and everything in between. Think of this as your front-row seat to the complex symphony of systems, people, and processes that power modern organizations.
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Picture this: It’s 1987. The first Zelda game just hit shelves, The Simpsons made their TV debut, and somewhere in the tech world, a revolutionary idea was taking shape that would influence enterprise architecture for decades to come. Enter the Zachman Framework. The Family Tree of Enterprise Architecture If enterprise architecture frameworks were a family,…
Adventures in Enterprise Architecture and other IT stories 