In this next podcast in the “EA Rediscovered” series we will address various organizational models for Solutions Architects.   Should they report directly to a centralized EA team, provisioned as needed to guide project designs?  Should they report directly to development group leaders and be permanently resident in those communities? We are asked this question on an almost daily basis, mainly because there is no hard and fast rule.  And it always is asked as a binary choice, probably because people struggle with reconciling the pros and cons of each approach.  What if there is a better choice that features the best of both worlds and minimizes the cons?  Listen to this podcast where we discuss the options and introduce the idea of a hybrid organizational model.

One of the fundamental concepts in enterprise architecture is the creation of a Future State that holistically embodies directional guidance for decision-making.  The concept is often mis-understood and seems to have recently been lost in the noisy sea of conversations about models, frameworks, digital transformation, bimodal, driving short term results, and other methodology discussions.  In this podcast we rediscover and revisit this core idea of EA. Learn more about Future State

True Enterprise Architecture (True-EA) is quite simply architecting the enterprise. “Isn’t this what Enterprise Architecture always has been?” you may be asking yourself. In actuality, the overwhelming majority of EA efforts that we have come in contact with over the last two decades have, in fact, been IT Enterprise Architecture (IT-EA) efforts. Tim Westbrock and George Paras discuss True-EA, Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture and Business Architecture Show Notes: Learn More about True-EA  

Welcome to the introductory episode of the The EA Soapbox podcast series. The mentors of EAdirections are climbing up on their EA Soapbox to present you with Simple Objective Actionable Practical advice on Enterprise Architecture and other related disciplines, from strategy and planning through portfolio management and enabling solutions. It is very much about people, process, leadership, culture and governance. We don’t pander hype and we are not dogmatic about frameworks, models, tools or methods. Just solid guidance from a couple of guys who have learned a thing or two over the last 25 years.