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]]> Comment on What’s The State of Enterprise Architecture? by Michael Tiemann http://deadlinesandducttape.com/blog/2011/02/01/what%e2%80%99s-the-state-of-enterprise-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-2377 Michael Tiemann Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:18:44 +0000 http://deadlinesandducttape.com/blog/?p=811#comment-2377 Tough times for EA or EArchitects? I thinks not. Those who say EA is dying or not needed are the same people who used to sell snake oil and many do not know what they are talking about. Two weeks ago I got an updated salary range for Enterprise Architecture Director and it went from the 120K to over 250K range.,..tough if I guess you don't have the credentials, experince and background to qualify I guess. I do agree that EA needs to find ways to be applied across a much broader spectrum of clientel- smaller organizations need EA just not on steroids like larger organizations. So there is room for service providers to help do fast EAs for Smaller organizations. These might be mor project and program oriented. The Federated EA Professionals Organization (FEAPO) which met formally last week had about 15 organizations with interests in EA attend. These organizations represent a bunck of disciplines that are aligned with ot intersect with EA and all are not for profit (or government- technically not for profit also). So fading EA...? I think not. And oh yea Academia (at least a few have recently found EA...found EA? What they are formulationing undergraduate and graduate levelk degree programs...not in their IM or IT departments? Unheard of...yes but keep listening. Which you say? Well that can be in another comment but a teaser in National University's(2nd largest on-line university) Systems Engineering masters whith a focus on EA. Anyway the EA glass is at least half full and considerably fuller than when yours truely was a chief architect in the government and there were only about four of us (1994). Anyway EA has been a target for a while of all those technologist who just want to sell and implement and who see EA as a barrier to their success. Sorry Charlie...EA ain't going away..changing...okay...but this is a profession that the world needs and its getting birthed starting now. FEAPO is moving forward to do so. "Look ma...its Shake and Bake and I helped." or another one..."You can pay me now or you can pay me later...but one of these ways your gonna pay me." EA is relevant, important and critical to the nation's and the world's abilities to address and solve complex problems. Its just that simple. We need Enterprise Architects ( and the suite of other related Architects skillsets- IT, data, services, business and security...to name a few). Tough times for EA or EArchitects? I thinks not. Those who say EA is dying or not needed are the same people who used to sell snake oil and many do not know what they are talking about. Two weeks ago I got an updated salary range for Enterprise Architecture Director and it went from the 120K to over 250K range.,..tough if I guess you don’t have the credentials, experince and background to qualify I guess. I do agree that EA needs to find ways to be applied across a much broader spectrum of clientel- smaller organizations need EA just not on steroids like larger organizations. So there is room for service providers to help do fast EAs for Smaller organizations. These might be mor project and program oriented. The Federated EA Professionals Organization (FEAPO) which met formally last week had about 15 organizations with interests in EA attend. These organizations represent a bunck of disciplines that are aligned with ot intersect with EA and all are not for profit (or government- technically not for profit also). So fading EA…? I think not. And oh yea Academia (at least a few have recently found EA…found EA? What they are formulationing undergraduate and graduate levelk degree programs…not in their IM or IT departments? Unheard of…yes but keep listening. Which you say? Well that can be in another comment but a teaser in National University’s(2nd largest on-line university) Systems Engineering masters whith a focus on EA. Anyway the EA glass is at least half full and considerably fuller than when yours truely was a chief architect in the government and there were only about four of us (1994). Anyway EA has been a target for a while of all those technologist who just want to sell and implement and who see EA as a barrier to their success. Sorry Charlie…EA ain’t going away..changing…okay…but this is a profession that the world needs and its getting birthed starting now. FEAPO is moving forward to do so. “Look ma…its Shake and Bake and I helped.” or another one…”You can pay me now or you can pay me later…but one of these ways your gonna pay me.” EA is relevant, important and critical to the nation’s and the world’s abilities to address and solve complex problems. Its just that simple. We need Enterprise Architects ( and the suite of other related Architects skillsets- IT, data, services, business and security…to name a few).

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