As the LeanStartup Challenge is nearing its end with DemoDay today, the following blogpost sums up our journey and learning so far, and might be useful for your startup adventure. Based on our Enterprise Architecture Work and the many stakeholders involved there (IT, PMO, Business, …) we were confronted with one recurring theme: Who is…
We just completed our first teaser video for doing Enterprise Architecture Management with a tool like iteraplan: How do you like this iteraplan video?
smartEA (iteraplan) 3.2 is getting ready and we want to give you a short preview on what new features, changes and fixes to expect. We are happy to showcase smartEA to you, just contact us! smartEA (iteraplan) 3.2 new features and changes: Excel and XMI import Performance improvements Improved robustness Nesting Cluster Diagram: Filtering of…
With iteraplan 3.2 just out a few weeks this post recaps all the changes in iteraplan 3.1 and how to leverage them the best. Blogseries on new features iteraplan 3.1: The EA at ACME Inc and Reporting series highlighting the new dashboard templates (by Wolfgang Frech) Life-Cycle modeling with DateIntervals and the improved Masterplan Diagram…
Transferring some approaches over from Business-IT Alignment to Business-HR Alignment: Business HR Alignment Definition #1: Business-HR Alignment is the capacity in which your Organization (Employees, Reporting Structures, Communication, Collaboration, …) has a positive relationship to financial measurements or business outcomes. Business HR Alignment Definition #2: The Business-HR alignment integrates the organizational development to the strategy, mission, and…
Through many different consulting gigs and seeing different EA initiatives, these are my distilled EA Key Success Factors: Start with why Tell a story Know your stakeholders If in doubt, leave it out Use Visualizations WIIFT – What’s in it for them? Always think about the Benefits of your Stakeholders Business and your other stakeholders…
This is a list of things your EA Stakeholders do not care about. I always have to retell myself as well as tell clients: Business doesn’t care how clean your IT architecture is. Your stakeholders don’t care how long you spent on creating a report/diagram. Your stakeholders don’t care whose fault the problems are. Your…
Our application to Lean Startup Challenge got accepted! So the next six weeks will be super busy, but we are glad to test our vision of a SMART360°View of an enterprise. We believe that enterprise social graphs and enterprise architecture/portfolio tools are getting traction and we are looking forward to learn and test this the lean way and learn…
This is a guest blog from Wolfgang Frech (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. Doris created the exact visualization the board needed with minimum effort. She is thrilled with the way the burden of reporting has eased. Charly is convinced too: the visualization looks just the way he designed it before. Charly immediately writes e-mails…
This is a guest blog from Wolfgang Frech (iteratec) – for more see iteraplan blog. During his coffee break, Charly meets Metodi, who is responsible for the migration to iteraplan 3.1. Metodi has good news for Charly: from now on, iteraplan offers custom dashboards, and the migration is already completed. With Metodi’s support Charly prepares everything…