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August 01, 2008

Reason, Stakeholder Engagement / Management and EA

Current issue of the New Scientist magazine has a very interesting cover story on “Seven reasons why people hate reason”.  Now, that is a guide I would have loved to have alongside during some rather difficult stakeholder engagements, when I couldn’t stop thinking “If only they could be reasonable…”.

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July 31, 2008

The most important considerations for Enterprise Architecture projects

As part of a proposal, a prospect asked us to provide the 10 most important pieces of advice for an EA team. Wow, I thought, that’s a really good question. And short of being able to do an awful lot of literature research (I am still on this assignment in the Middle East, and my library is at home back in Frankfurt), I just took a shot.

I did not manage to get together 10 guidelines, but have a look at these 4 – and please feel free to fill in with your own experience.

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