Do your Enterprise Architecture and PPM Strategies align with your desired business and technology investments? In order to translate business and technology strategies into execution, Enterprise Architecture has to link the desired outcomes to the delivered outcomes. This overview provides insight into how Project Architecture plays a crucial role in the project life-cycle, in the elimination…
Get a Best-Practice-EAM + smartEA Training in Munich! Our partner Lean42 offers some limited space with a great training to boost your career and make your organization more successful. 16. / 17. September 2015 in Munich, Germany There are some last minute spaces available – so reserve your space now! smartEA Training – Learning objectives:…
Distilled from many Enterprise Architecture Consulting engagements Karsten Voges published 10 rules for Enterprise Architecture Practitioners to guide your modeling efforts: If in doubt, leave it out: if you are uncertain that you need data – leave it out, it simplifies your initiative in the long run; Model to the highest level of abstraction, that still gives…
Our Partner Lean42 is announcing their Lean EAM Conference for October 13th 2015 in Munich, Germany. SMART 360 will be present and is proud to support one of the most important practitioner gatherings of Enterprise Architects in Germany. You can sign up for Lean EAM Conference or read more in the following announcement document Lean EAM…
SMART EA 3.4 is released and available as a new enhancement. You can test the new release via our online demo of SMART EA for free! We highly recommend to update to this modular release, providing many enhancements/add-ons over the original SMART EA 3.3 or iteraplan. The new release 3.4 provides major improvements by integrating our new SMART…
Guest post from industry expert Jean Gehring. “I admire Linda Cureton, former CIO of NASA and CEO of Muse Technologies Inc. She writes in InformationWeek that one of the most essential components of effective IT planning is enterprise architecture (EA). Yet EA is considered by most observers to be an utter failure in government. Given…
smartEA 3.3 is released and was successfully deployed for our SAAS customers. In addition, our clients can download and upgrade to this new release. The new release 3.3 provides major improvements concerning integration and usability. You can now profit from the following new integration features: Different import strategies: Use the best strategy for your integration requirements…
As complexity of IT landscapes increases, the speed of changes is increasing and information for decisions becoming more important, the need and interest in Enterprise Architecture (EA) and tooling/reports/visualization in EA is becoming immanent. To help with convincing business about the benefits of an EA Tool, we created a slidedeck with questions/concerns you as an…
As 2013 comes to an end, we thank you all for your support, help and continued business. Well look forward driving your EA initiatives with you in 2014. Our experience and tools continue to serve you and enhance your IT Management delivery. We say thank you with a gift. You can our new smartVIZ – a FREE…
How Google built their central design function (known as UXA – User Experience Alliance) can be a lesson and guidance on how to built a central EnterpriseArchitects function. This dawned on my reading the great Fast Company article about how design finally made its way into Google, not only within each product, but also as a function within…