Arron Rouse

Business consultant turned movie maker. Dumbest smart guy you'll ever meet.

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EA thought of the day...
When someone says, “Enterprise Architecture is a governance function”, you are free to point and laugh at them. Enterprise Architecture is an architecture function.
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EA thought of the day...
Architectural changes can start from anywhere but, when it starts at or near the top, it often comes with a particular key stakeholder in mind. Learn how to design architecture around the talents of that kind of person.
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EA thought of the day...
The CEO decides strategy. The CTO decides IT strategy. The COO decides business planning. The CIO decides IT planning. The Enterprise Architect helps make those decisions and ensures they are all aligned.
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EA thought of the day...
It is possible to understand every component used in Enterprise Architecture to an expert level and still not understand EA. Because EA is about how those components are assembled in order to produce the design of an enterprise.
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@Matthew06230436 @GeoffreyLean Used to work in power gen. Car parks aren't for sale so they'd have to share profits. Instead they buy farms because they're cheap, the land is already conditioned and planners are easy to bribe/coerce. It's more profitable and someone else's problem if they screw our food up.

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@Matthew06230436 @GeoffreyLean Most car parks are on the grid. Farm fields are not. For a farm, you will have to install miles of cable. For a car park, the cable is already there most of the time for lights.

Plus when you destroy a farm, it stops making food.

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It requires the skill to oversee the construction of the new or revised enterprise.
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EA thought of the day...
The only way to be an Enterprise Architect is to architect enterprises. It requires the skill to build a complete model of the enterprise. 🧵

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It requires the skill to work and negotiate with the stakeholders to redesign the enterprise by re-architecting that model. It requires the skill to communicate the new design to the project and programme teams so it can be built.

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disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.” — Richard Buckminster Fuller
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EA thought of the day...
“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always 🧵

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EA thought of the day...
The circles of the TOGAF ADM diagram are all the same size but the reality they should all be different sizes.
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EA thought of the day...
Archimate is terrible for designing business operations. On the other hand, it’s also terrible for designing IT operations. But at least it’s also terrible for Data structures and hardware so it is consistent.
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The answer is those are mutually exclusive. No one wants the architecture police at the table.
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EA thought of the day...
Some are obsessed with Enterprise Architecture Governance and Architecture Review Boards... and the same people seem certain they deserve a Seat At The Table. 🧵

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@toadmeister 2 Brexit graphs everyone should see. The first shows UK GDP increased its pace of growth after Brexit. The second shows the decline of the £ from Britain being in the EU was stopped by Brexit.

This is despite the fact no government has tried to take advantage of Brexit.

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It is nothing to do with IT security. If you lead a regulated organisation.and your only GRC people are in IT security, how would you know if there was internal fraud or corruption?
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EA thought of the day...
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) was born out of the Enron scandal and is intended to protect against internal fraud and corruption. It is a senior management approach designed to ensure correct governance and regulatory reporting. 🧵

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EA thought of the day...
Done properly, one of the few genuine Capabilities internal to an organisation is the Enterprise Architecture practice. Its market is the rest of the organisation.
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EA thought of the day...
The primary deliverable for an Enterprise Architect is a structural design of the enterprise. The production of that design involve a huge amount of teamwork because all of the stakeholders have requirements for the design.
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