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Stakeholder Buy-in & Motivation Models Pt 1: Persuasion in Enterprise...
It’s something that almost all architects really struggle with. How to convince the non-technical stakeholder to support your initiative, or your program, or even convince them that a given approach is...
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Stakeholder Buy-in & Motivation Models Pt 3: The Link to Motivation Models
The previous post described the SPIN methodology and showed how it is a highly structured way to establish a chain of reasoning to establish business needs. Now, in enterprise modeling, there’s an...
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Stakeholder Buy-in & Motivation Models Pt 4: A first worked example
In the past three posts we’ve explored a structured method of persuasion that the commercial side of business uses to close deals, and seen how surprisingly closely it matches the established...
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Creating a Tool Implementation Project Plan: Basic Principles Part 1
One thing that I’ve noticed organizations can struggle with once they’ve bought a modeling tool is planning what needs to be done to roll the tool out. Many vendors offer some kind of services package...
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Creating a Tool Implementation Project Plan: Defining Scope Part 2
I vividly remember the time I tried to introduce road mapping to a startup that I worked at in Canada. We asked the customer-facing staff to rate the items that we wanted to introduce on a scale of...
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Creating a Tool Implementation Project Plan: Organizing the Activities Part 3
Summary: We’ve already looked at what work items an organization might want to cover while rolling out a modeling tool, and how the scope of each of them drives how large each task is. The third piece...
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Creating a Tool Implementation Project Plan: A Template Plan Part 4
With the materials in the preceding three posts, we are in position to create the inputs for a plan; but with a number of caveats. First of all, the tasks listed might not all be relevant to the...
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Visio Series: Simple Network Diagrams
The top three uses of Visio in business are Process Flows, Organization Charts, and Network Diagrams. In this article I will discuss simple versions of the latter, which can be found under the Network...
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Architecture Modeling Crossovers Pt 1 – Integrating with a CMDB
Rolling out a formal architecture modeling initiative involves many different strands; questions about governance, about access permissions, about importing existing architecture models… and about...
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In my previous post I talked at length about how integrating between your architecture modeling tool and your Configuration Management Database is possible and can have value, but like most things in...
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