There was a question from Gideon Slifkin about ”What is an Enterprise Architect in 2019” on LinkedIn a few days ago.

One of the alternatives he wrote was, ”Someone who knows (from an architectural perspective) all the key IT technologies in 2019”, and then give examples of them. This became the answer as one of the most favoured skills for an Enterprise architect.

Six O´Clock News on TV is a very good example for those who want to run DevOps

Each day at 6 pm, every day in a year, you have to send the news. Regardless of what’s happening.

One of the questions I got is why we need a business glossary. 

I would start to identifying a business need as a first step and the try to find out what is good enough business glossary for the purpose

One of the difficulties in Enterprise Architecture is to do information modelling in a structured way. Last year, I found out how they did something similar in Hollywood. I described the problem last month in “How is Jimmy dressed”.

First of all, we need to understand why we are moving into the clouds, with all the pros and cons we have with this decision.