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Comment on Yes, SOA is Still Dead (or is it?) by TH

TH — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:45:00 +0000

“When do I achieve SOA? [...] never”
It’s because of the evolving strategies, processes and goals ! Just like any enterprise architecture !

Comment on Unprincipled Architecture by Mark Paauwe

Mark Paauwe — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:16:00 +0000

A principle is the enforced way an entity works in agiven context producing results. (source: http://www.dragon1.org)

Write down principles as if they were working-mechanisms.

Start the short-statement of a principle with the word: By..

Comment on IT Made Simple by Benchmarking

Benchmarking — Sun, 29 May 2011 11:31:00 +0000

Business is the nucleus of what you do. The revenue stream is paramount. You provide goods and services to your customers for income. That is the business model. It is core. It is the nucleus.

Comment on A Capabilities-based Architecture by Ondrej Galik

Ondrej Galik — Thu, 19 May 2011 08:48:00 +0000

Great article, and useful for corporate life. But man, you”re married, so you must know as well as I do that the moment she’s got to have a test drive in a car and it happens that she starts to like it (and that’s the point of offering test drives, right), your capabilities are worth less then a nickel;) Your prioritization is of no value and whatever you’d be different, you! are responsible for her not liking the car. Just because it’s not perfect. And it never is.
And business folks are often all the same in this aspect when you let vendors talk to them. Just dare to pick something else! It’s your fault. Should you implement what they want? Well, no difference, actually, it’s still your fault. Get used to being guilty, life is easier and less surprising;)

Comment on A Capabilities-based Architecture by Mike Burke

Mike Burke — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:37:00 +0000

Chris, one of the best pieces of writing on capabability-based architecture I’ve seen, great stuff.

Comment on Architecture is Not: A Proof of Concept by BPM Quotes of the week « Adam Deane

BPM Quotes of the week « Adam Deane — Sat, 07 May 2011 07:11:43 +0000

[...] BPM and POCs – Chris Lockhart Why do we have folks in our companies today that insist the first thing that [...]

Comment on Architecture is Not: Infrastructure by clockhart

clockhart — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:31:31 +0000

Interesting. Great read by the way. I would tend to think your paper reinforces the notion that one has to understand one’s business beyond physical hardware. In order to achieve success with the unbundling and rebundling it seems you would need a well defined and understood architecture. Thanks for the comment!

Comment on Architecture is Not: Infrastructure by Peter Bakker

Peter Bakker — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:22:37 +0000

Infrastructure is business (and not just technology)!
http://bit.ly/dXieK5

Comment on You, Sir, Are No Architect by EA and Business Process Quotes of the week « Adam Deane

EA and Business Process Quotes of the week « Adam Deane — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:22:27 +0000

[...] IT Architects – Chris Lockhart If your team doesn’t have the proper job descriptions that speak to [...]

Comment on MBAs Are Worthless by Jess

Jess — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:52:20 +0000

Chris, I see your points and I think they are valid. As someone with a Master’s degree in Integrated Marketing Communication (an MBA for marketing people I like to call it) I know firsthand that many people resent those with a master’s degrees. And I see the argument that a majority of the public does not think anyone with an MBA deserves a dream job. In my program I saw lots of students who thought this master’s degree was a ticket to that dream job. I, myself did not see it that way whatsoever. Mind you, I had a job that wasn’t challenging me as much as I had hoped and so after 5 years of real-world experience I decided to enroll full-time in grad school while working full-time. It was great real world experience. My program didn’t stick us in a classroom all day but instead had us use our real world experience to do major research and interact on an executive level more than I could where I was employed.

This isn’t really the case in most programs. My husband, who has his PhD in Organic Chemistry (not so useless when you are designing and building pharmaceutical drugs that are helping to cure heart disease, breast cancer, etc….but I digress) and I joke all the time that everyone and their mother has an MBA and the amount of un-credited institutions that offers MBAs is staggering. So I get your point, in that, and MBA doesn’t suffice for real-world experiences.

My point is that not all of us with higher education saw this as our meal ticket. In fact, after I graduated and decided to start consulting, I then found in a year and a half, I’m not the entrepreneur I thought I was. And that a lot of companies did not want to hire someone with a master’s degree. Talk about real-world experience. But I still do not degrade higher education (from ACCREDITED institutions) I garnered knowledge that I would have waiting another 10 years in my position to learn. I came out of that program with more confidence and an overall better sense of my professional self. For that reason I find higher education and master’s degrees very valuable.

Just trying to possibly give a little insight into a different perspective.

Cheers!