Bayes Blog

Its all coming together nicely I hope. I am on to about 40 pages of content that needs to now be formatted and worded correctly. Hopefully in 15 days time I will have something concrete to give my supervisors. Which they will then read over and send back with loads of comments .

The main thing here is that I am starting to see the bigger picture of the role and practice of enterprise architecture in todays business environment. I hope no one actually asks me any real questions as all my answers are based on personal opinions right now.

So I started rewriting my first deliverable, and what can I say… Well i can mention I had writers block, I can mention it wasn’t very good. But with a little help from my supervisors I will attempt again.

I honestly believe this must be the difficult part of doing research, starting… You feel clueless and unsure that what you have come to believe is the truth or even sufficient for a first deliverable.

So yes I can rant about how I have no inspiration for the first deliverable, because of the ever present cloud that is blocking my thought a patterns and imagination from regurgitating words of wisdom that make sense, even if its only to myself. Or alternatively I can man up and persist till I have something I believe is worth while submitting, which in my mind would never work… because is anyone ever really satisfied with their deliverables? My personal opinion is that if you are, you probably shouldn’t be in a profession that requires constant improvement.

Can you ever read enough?

So I have been reading articles for a while now, and I find myself asking “can you ever read enough?”.

50 Articles later and one paragraph in the bag seems to be pretty slow progress. What makes it especially slow is the fact that I believe I do not have a clue what it is I am actually talking about. My topic is Enterprise Architecture, its a bit overwhelming at the moment as I have come to realise everyone see’s it in a different but similar way with no real constant definition.

So, how do you write an introduction on a topic that academics up till now are still debating the definition. The only thing I believe is possible to do is choose a definition and stick with it. Make that decision and live with the fact that you may not choose the accepted one.

So answering my question, I guess no you can’t ever read enough, but I guess you have to limit yourself and realize that you will never know everything, so choose something specific and know it really well.