Index

PF2

Head

Introduction

Introduction

Companies

Overview
Pragmatic EC
Licensing

Training

Certification Courses
Focused Workshops
Options

Pragmatic Publishing Platform

Overview
Design

PEFF

Language

Language

Basics

I Didnt Mean What You Heard
What is a System
What is an Enterprise
What is Transformation
What is a Framework
Theory or Practice
Colours
What is Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture Solution Architecture

Ontologies

Ontologies

Structural

MAGIC

Transformational

MAGMA

Enterprise

DOTS
Relationships
Problems
Department Mapping
Department Percentages

Adoption

Adoption
Overview
Detail

Guidance

Iterations

Single
Over Time

Measures

Maturity Model

PTMC

Levels
Tools
Example Report
Step 0
The First Step is NOT the Hardest
Actions

Measures PTMC

Level 0

Motivation

Paradigm Shift
WE Deming
70 of All Change Initiatives Fail
Enterprise Viability
Sage Words
Basic Premise
The Transformation of Transformation
What Your Transformation Capability Looks Like
Building the Machine that Makes the Machine
Culture

Demotivation

Dont Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater
Domain Blindness
The Red Pill
Timing Paradox
Management Workers Paradox
Process Paradox
Unconscious Degradation
False Accomplishment
Oversimplification
Reality Avoidance
Its Just Not Sexy
The Drowning Children
Step 1
Actions

Measures PTMC

Level 1
Step 2
Actions

Measures PTMC

Level 2
Step 3
Actions

Measures PTMC

Level 3

POET

Culture

Culture

Organisation Structure

Management

PF2

Appendix

Appendix
Background
The Author
Keypoints
Sources and Resources
Tail
       
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The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks are written in English and you would therefore expect to be able to understand every word.

However, although most of us speak English fluently, the same cannot be said about the language we use to talk, about things in relation to Enterprises.

Different people use different words to mean different things at different times. This is a massive problem, which makes understanding anything anyone says, at best impossible, and at worst, apparently possible. (It’s worse when apparently possible, because that’s when people think they understand each other, but don’t)

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Be ever vigilant of the hidden confusion that language can create.

EA Project Team: Create a data dictionary for all the terms used in the Enterprise's Transformation Capability.

Questions to ponder...

Do people in your enterprise speak the same language?

Are you prepared to map the content of The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks to your own internal naming conventions?

If not what changes would you make to The Pragmatic Family of Frameworks?









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