weaknesses of zachman framework
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WEAKNESSES OF ZACHMAN FRAMEWORK
Dray Brown June 1, 2011
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OVERVIEWDEFINITION
“The theory of the existence of a structured set of elemental components from which complex
objects can be created.”
-John Zachman CAEAP Summit 2009
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ZACHMAN FRAMEWORK
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PERIODIC TABLE
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MEET THE JEFFERSONS
Luxury Dry Cleaners
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Each location has a computer for inventory management, accounting, and logistics that communicates to the regional warehouse computer.
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Jefferson Cleaners Has Expanded!
Purchased successful cleaners in every several metropolitan areas.
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Zachman: “KNOW YOUR ENTERPRISE”
(ontology)
Miami
Chicago
Los Angeles
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GEORGE KNOWS HIS BUSINESS
GEORGE KNOWS THE ZACHMAN FRAMEWORK
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Miami:No Frills Chicago:
Each Garment Same Price
Los Angeles:Go Green!
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PROBLEMHow Do We Unite?
Each chain follows a different scheme
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PROBLEM“After all this time and
effort, where do I go from here?”
• No step-by-step procedure for creating a new architecture.
• No help in deciding if the future architecture is the best for an organization.
Zachman Framework provides:
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Framework Model Rating (according to Rogers Sessions, ObjectWatch, Inc.)
Process completeness: can be used as a step-by-step guide
Business focus: technology used to drive business (reduced expenses & increased profits).
Partitioning Guidance: used to guide effective partitioning of enterprise (important for managing complexity).
Time to value: duration before a solution built upon the methodology delivers business value.
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GARTNERDescribed as a ‘practice.’
Decisions are made based on the experience of well-known practitioners.
Focuses on where the organization is going and how it will get there versus where it is now.
Unlike Zachman, the concept of architecture not fixed, but a continual process of creating, maintaining and leveraging the enterprise.
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CONCLUSION
An excellent tool for determining the taxonomy of an enterprise.
Falls short at prescribing detailed solutions for enterprise problems
Often implies solutions that are idealistic at best.
Zachman Framework:
Works best when combined with other methodologies
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RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
Does Warren Buffet’s approach to investment represent Zachman?
Is Jim Cramer’s approach feeding into the “tyranny of the urgent?”
Is the Zachman Framework an enterprise version of Marxism?