EA Organizational Design

May 10, 20222 min read

Don’t be such a snob

I’m talking to you Chief Architect. Roll up your sleeve. Get some real work done. Leading Enterprise Architecture (EA) is not a job for...

May 9, 20222 min read

EA leaders are communicators

We’ve talked about how we’d love all Enterprise Architecture (EA) core team members to be Unicorns. These are the folks in the light...

Apr 28, 20222 min read

The EA Matrix

The below table shows my opinion of how to structure the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team. I’ve used this chart now 3 or 4 times. If I...

Apr 27, 20222 min read

Unicorns

So we’ve talked about where Enterprise Architecture (EA) reports to in the organization, how EA should be structured and what EA team...

Apr 26, 20222 min read

Solid or dotted line

Who do Enterprise Architects (EAs) report to has become a very lively debate. For this debate let’s take the organizational construct I...

Apr 22, 20222 min read

Industry Knowledge is overrated

What does the topic of industry knowledge have to do with Enterprise Architecture organizational design? Nothing and that is the point....

Apr 7, 20222 min read

Reality of EA reporting lines. Deal with it!

If you happen to have read my last two posts I was discussing the ideal reporting relationship of the head of Enterprise Architecture...

Apr 6, 20222 min read

Ideal EA reporting lines

In my last post I made the point that an effective Enterprise Architecture (EA) team should be the same as a company’s Strategy team....

Apr 5, 20222 min read

Why EA? = Why Strategy?

Why should companies have an Enterprise Architecture (EA) team? Ask yourself the question if you should have a centralized business...