Danny Greefhorst, MSc. is a principal consultant and owner of ArchiXL,  acting as an IT architect and consultant for clients in the financial and public sector. Danny has a background in software engineering, but  nowadays focuses on enterprise architecture. Before starting ArchiXL, he worked as a principal consultant at Yellowtail, as a senior IT architect at IBM Business Consulting Services and as a researcher at 
the Software Engineering Research Centre. Danny is active in the architecture community and regularly publishes on IT and architecture related topics. He is the chairman of the editorial board of Via Nova Architectura.

Danny has been active in the organisation of the Dutch architecture conference for the last five years, organising and hosting presentation- and workshop sessions on subjects such as architecture principles, reference architectures, pervasive computing and the value of architecture. Danny has broad expercience as an instructor. He is currently a guest instructor for DNV-Academy for several architecture courses such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, SOA and Applying Architecture.

Presentation

A Pragmatic Approach to Architecture

Architecture is often still perceived by organisations as something that slows down projects, and has only limited added value. Our vision is that architecture should be pragmatic and very much focused on the specific goals at hand. In this presentation we present a number of our experiences at clients that show how we have translated this vision to concrete architecture approaches and artefacts that we have delivered. We also show how these relate to TOGAF and can in fact be seen as TOGAF best-practices.

return to program