2008 -
PeaFv1
PEAF v1 was launched in November 2008
after many years of development. From a sea of EA
noise and hype, PEAF “Cuts EA to the Bone” and
provides a quick start toolkit necessary to setup
and/or mature an Enterprise Architecture capability.
2010 -
PEAFv2
Over time, it became apparent that people were
having trouble understanding EA because they did not
know where EA fitted into the wider picture.
For this reason, PEAF v2 was born where a lot more
contextual guidance was added.
2013 -
POETv1, PEAFv3
Over time, it became apparent that some things that
PEAF contained, applied not only to the Enterprise
Architecture domain but also to the wider Enterprise
Transformation domain.
For this reason, POET v1 was created and the things
in PEAF that applied to the whole Enterprise
Transformation domain were moved into POET.
In addition, because POET now
considered the wider Enterprise Transformation
domain, there were new things that were added to
POET.
PEAF v3 was then created by taking
the things from PEAF v2 that were purely concerned
with the Enterprise Architecture domain, adding more
things, and restructuring the content to conform to
the new structures that POET had created.
2021 -
PEFFv2021, POETv2021, PEAF v2021
Over time, it became apparent that there were some
parts of POET v1 that applied not only to the
Transformation Domain of an Enterprise, but in fact
to all parts of an Enterprise.
For this reason, PEFF v2021 was
created, and the things in POET that applied to the
whole Enterprise were moved into PEFF.
POET v2021 therefore became the
remaining parts of POET v1 that were Transformation
specific, but with a major reorganisation of the
Adoption section and the expansion of MACE to MAGIC.
PEAF v2021 was mostly the same as
PEAF v3, but with a major reorganisation of the
Adoption section and the expansion of MACE to MAGIC.
The v2021 release also saw the
harmonization of the versioning numbers and a change
to the year of release.
It should be noted that none of this
was pre-planned. PEFF, POET and PEAF have grown
organically as time has passed. Had I tried to
create PEFF POET and PEAF in 2008, I think I would
have failed dismally.
A quote from Douglas Adams expresses
it nicely:
“I
may not have gone
where I intended to go,
but
I think I have ended up
where I needed to be.”
- Douglas Adams, The
Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
