January 30, 2005
What is Agile Really?
Last week I discussed what agile really means in information systems development (ISD) with my good friend, Christian Aaen from Agilic. A good place to start is the ‘Agile Manifesto’.
The term agility was introduced in 2001 when a group of people involved in finding, testing and defining new methods got together at a skiing resort in North America. They came up with four principles:
1)Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2)Working software over comprehensive documentation
3)Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4)Responding to change over following a plan
What this means in regards to enterprise architecture is a good question – a question that I will elaborate further upon during the next couple of months when I write up my PhD-proposal.
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January 27, 2005
Congratulations to Ole!
Tuesday this week, my good friend and PhD-colleague Ole Jørgensen defended his M.Sc. thesis. He got the best grade possible (11! – se more about the Danish grading system here) and we are therefore all very proud of him.
If you are interested in the economic uncertainty and structural reforms in the European Union – which is a really a hot topic in the Danish election right now – you can read more about Ole's PhD-project on the website of Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) or you can go directly to his website.
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January 20, 2005
Bringing the community together – new link collection
Enterprise architecture – as we know it today - is a rather new concept in Denmark. There are only a couple of web sites about the topic and I have therefore decided to try to bring the community a little closer by starting a new link collection (see the right-side bar).
The EA link collection will cover topics like Service Oriented Architecture, Identity Management, Security, etc. – all topics that relate to the EA field. In the link collection you can find links to people my PhD-advisor Dr. John Gøtze and the founder of SOA Networks, Henrik Hvid. I hope that the list will grow as the topic matures in Denmark – until then I have added a category called ‘Worldwide’ which will include links to cool EA sites. Have fun – and please feel free to contact me, if I have missed any important sites.
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January 15, 2005
Work in progress...
In February, I am attending the CBS PhD-course on Write publishable research. The course is targeted at improving the capability to describe the research question and the research process and results in a format that can be published in either journals or conferences. I have just submitted the following abstract:
Abstract: Interoperability and integration between different levels of government is one of the largest challenges governments around the world are facing today. While most e-government literature has focused on the simple online transactions between citizens and government, little research has investigated the theoretical and practical interoperability challenges that vertical and horizontal integration are confronting governments with when public institutions must work across the traditional “stove pipes” to provide integrated services for business and civilians. This paper investigates the various dimensions of e-government interoperability and integration that an individual institution is faced with when trying to coordinate IT-infrastructures across different levels of government. Based on literature about enterprise architecture and service-oriented architectures, interorganizational systems and institutional theory from the political science discipline the case study investigates the information systems coordination challenge between the national health sector in Denmark, the Copenhagen hospital region and Denmark’s largest hospital from different perspectives. Our findings illustrate that creating interoperability across different levels of government requires that we rethink the way we think about e-government systems development. Power is unevenly distributed between different public institutions and it is difficult to dictate/coordinate the organizational, semantic and technical interoperability. The interoperability problems arise because there is no overall coordination of different e-government initiatives in “stove pipes” and because different institutions, in sectors or on their own, often have no dimidiate incentives or opportunities to share data and functionality with other institutions.
Key words: Enterprise Architecture, e-Government, Service-oriented architecture, Interoperability, Health Care, IS management
As you can see, my research question for the article is still a bit fuzzy. Please feel free to comment on the abstract :-)
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January 13, 2005
New Year - New Tool!
Welcome to my first official blog on Enterprise Architecture in Government! With technical help from my PhD-supervisor - and friend - in the National IT and Telecom Agency, Dr. John Gøtze, I have now started my own blog. My ambition is to post a couple of entries every week with news about my PhD, notes from conferences, literature reviews, etc.
To read more about me and my PhD-project please see About Me for now. More content will be added within the next couple of weeks – while I am still on parental leave of absence.
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January 07, 2005
Blogger Kristian?
Ja, snart.
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