Roger Evernden

New piano album soon!

It’s been over a year in production, but I’m very excited that my new solo piano album is due for release shortly! All tracks have been released as singles – starting in February 2019 with Catch The Day, written for my amazing brother. Now the difficult task of sequencing the tracks… and this is where I would love to get your feedback and ideas.

You can listen to all of the tracks so far on a

How to avoid a dog’s Brexit – an EA approach to massive change

There can’t be many people that think Brexit has been a great success. But if an Enterprise Architect was involved – what might they do to help??

Spoiler: if you want the quick summary it's (1) recognise the current approach is a mistake; (2) start again by separating concerns; (3) find the best ways to change the current architecture to address each concern; (4) find ways to combine these…

2018 has been a challenging year for architects; there are so many changes facing every enterprise, and there are colossal concerns threatening our lovely planet. I hope 2019 brings you peace, joy, and success.



7 techniques that can make you an awesome enterprise architect

Next week I’ll be presenting at the IRM Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2018 in London:

How Can Enterprise Architecture Easily Save The World?

‘ll be describing my top seven techniques to make EA an awesome force for change. The techniques are simple, practical, and above all – effective. And they work for all types of architect – whether you are an enterprise or solution architect,…

What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Enterprise Architects have a great deal of potential power and influence. How can the Effective Altruism movement help direct our efforts towards the best long-term futures?

An introduction to Effective Altruism

This TED Talk gives perspective and a sense of scale to the history of humans on planet Earth. We’ve only been around for a comparatively short time; and we have the potential to survive…

What makes EA artefacts useful? Six criteria to evaluate your artefacts

We seem to be in a new age of EA literature, with a growing number of books that really get into the detail of how one can architect.

One example is Marc Gewertz and his book Defining Enterprise.

Marc wrote a recent LinkedIn post about the need for architects to make their design explicit through good artefacts.

But what makes a good, useful, practical artefact?

Here are some ideas that can be…

How to become the best version of you

Can you help me create a ripple?

As I approached the later years in my life I started to have doubts about whether I was truly being me… it led me on an amazing quest to rediscover myself, and I ended up relating this story at a TEDx talk [if you don’t know about TED talks – they are amazing – click here to discover].

This talk has just been posted on YouTube, and I’d really like to get this…

How to use generic architectures and leverage reuse using Pareto

There are many EA techniques that improve communication and collaboration between functions and teams – helping everyone to speak the same language. These techniques are vital for integration, standardisation, synergy, and reuse. Many of these are based on the Pareto Principle – find out more in this 9 minute video:



This is just one of the videos in the online Enterprise Architecture Training:

A scarce skill set again? Are you surprised?

A 2017 CIO survey by Harvey Nash and KPMG shows that EA is the fastest growing tech skill in demand.

While this is clearly a good thing for all budding architects I am concerned that the emphasis on such studies is still on technical skills… and yet the best architects that I’ve ever met have generally come from a mixed background with less emphasis on the technology and more on understanding and…

— IRM UK (@IRMUK) August 8, 2018

Economic Purpose – the intersect between social purpose and good business

For anyone in EA who thinks we need to be doing more than simply making the fat cats fatter… this deck from the Economist Group describing Economic Purpose – where social purpose and good business interact. It found three types of benefit in the overlap between financial business health and commitment to social purpose.

This idea is one of the principles I’ll describe in a forthcoming talk How…

Will this also top 30K views?

Thank you everyone who is supporting my EA YouTube channel. Especially the 36,174 people who have viewed What is Enterprise Architecture? A 6 minute explanation.

The feedback has been so encouraging, and it helps spur me on to develop more videos. My aim is to continue getting comments like these:

“One of the best and clearest explanations of Enterprise Architecture I have ever seen or read to…

A healthy economy – architect to thrive, not grow

Too often we create architectures to support economic growth… but judged from many perspectives this is unsustainable and unethical. We should be creating architectures that are fair, sustainable, and universally beneficial. Although not directly about enterprise architecture, this fascinating TED talk has many insights that we need to share and take on board for EA:

“What would a sustainable,…

TOGAF® Standard, Version 9.2 and Essentials 2018 – everything you need to know

The new version of TOGAF® has probably not made a huge difference to your work as an enterprise architect. The changes are not world-shattering. TOGAF is still far from perfect or complete, but I think that 9.2 is a step in the right direction, and it may pave the way for more frequent and useful future updates.

If you don’t really understand the changes between 9.1 and 9.2, here are some links…

Are you bringing positive change in the world by doing what you love?

Continuing my theme that EA can make a big difference, I thought you might find “Architecture can change the world” an interesting post. This article is about building architecture, but with a little sidestep it could easily apply to EA.

Here are a couple of questions for enterprise architects:

Which is enterprise architecture is your favourite? For example, do you like the experience of dealing…