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EA Dealing with the RACI limbo - Part I

As mentioned in my When Everyone Does Everything Blog, I’d follow that one up with four blogs on each of the “what to do” bullets below...

Data Trustee or Data Trustees

Today it’s all about TOGAF* principle 13: Data Trustee. “Each data element has a trustee accountable for data quality” One bullet in the...

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...

Unicorns

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

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...

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....

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...

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....