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This question probably should have been #1 on my list of Top Enterprise Architect Questions, but I’ve given it number 4. The answer is lengthy, and I usually take at least an hour in my Architect Bootcamp classes to explain this one in detail. I get into great depth as to the various roles in [...]

Here is installment #3 in the Top 10 Common Questions asked in Enterprise Architecture – Where can I get skills as an Enterprise Architect? Take a look at the video and see my answer.

It’s the new year, and like most, you are back in your office or at your desk and looking at a mountain of strategies you need to implement, if you are lucky. If not so much, you are being dragged into meetings, to put out fires, or listen to what everyone else’s agendas are for [...]

The following is an excerpt of an interview I did with Forrester research on their topic of Enterprise Architecture Career Paths: Forrester asked “If I’m a manager, one of the things that would be helpful for me to know is what the different levels of a career path are, and how do I find the [...]

To the Potential Enterprise Architects and Practicing EA’s, One of the biggest questions I am asked, or more one common anyways, is “How Do I Become an EA?”  The answer is a little complicated, and so it deserves this video explanation.  I speak about the Enterprise Architect Education or Enterprise Architecture Training you might take, [...]

Just realized I’d never posted on my coaching site about Zoom Factor Book. If you want to get to know me, and how I think you should pick up my book, Zoom Factor for the Enterprise Architect:  How to Focus and Accelerate Your Career ISBN: 978-0981260907 or at least download the sample chapters. This is [...]

Ever consider Enterprise Architecture Training vs. Enterprise Architecture Coaching? There are a few enterprise architecture training classes available, but what do you really need? The benefits of a structured EA Training class: Structured & pre-determined syllabus Benefits of learning with colleagues, classmates and interaction with others Formalized topics and subjects may be covered What are [...]

Second guessing a decision?  Feeling overwhelmed in the muck of your new enterprise architect role?  Why not spend thirty minutes bouncing your issues off of a professional coach? I’ve had people call with various technologies they were considering, political issues in their company that are affecting their sanity and their EA programs, and confusion over [...]

Who wrote the interview questions? Face it – you are being hired as one of the top technical employees at the prospects company. Who is going to ask you questions? Chances are the interviewer didn’t create them and had somebody else to do this for them.If this is a brand-new position, this will be especially [...]

Last time I wrote about a few thoughts regarding the failure of the enterprise architecture programs.  Most are complicated.  You have a great deal of difficultly explaining the benefits. It is probably one of the most common questions I’m asked.  “How do I justify the work we are going to do on this?”. First of [...]