Client Testimonials

I wanted to let you know that right after the Workshop you taught, I applied the Goals Hierarchy immediately to the work I was doing. This really helped to assess the gaps/overlaps which, in the list format we were using, were challenging to see and even more challenging to communicate with our customers.

I work as a business analyst/IT architect for a consultancy firm in Sweden. I attended your course which gave me a lot of new ideas and new perspectives. It also provided me with an approach on how to take on new projects. I have adopted the methodology in a couple of projects recently, where the results and methodology itself has been very appreciated.

How do you gauge the "worth" of an Enterprise Architect Certification Workshop? To me, there is one overriding criteria - can I actually develop an Enterprise Architecture? Of course, this cannot be gauged the day after the education and workshop sessions. Sam Holcman said that his intent in the Workshop is preparing us to do Enterprise Architecture "...on Monday morning" - providing the necessary methodology, tools, templates, framework, project management work breakdown structure, and support materials. Not only was I prepared, but we launched a Quick Start Enterprise Architecture effort, as we were taught in the Workshop. I can now, after a new months of effort, say that our organization produced, and is now enabling the Enterprise Architecture we developed. The true testimonial to this Workshops effectiveness.

I just wanted to take a minute to thank you once again for the wonderful educational experience. Believe me when I say that this has been the very best training I ever attended in my 15 year career, it is a pity that I did not get the opportunity to be in the class a lot sooner!
Over the weekend I went through every single page in the material you provided, there is a lot in there. I will be putting your "Business on a page" template to use here pretty soon.

I found the workshop extremely valuable. You kept talking about putting it into practice on "Monday morning", which at the time seemed somewhat unreasonable. However, I actually was able to do just that. I was amazed. I find myself thinking in Enterprise Architecture terms now more so than ever, breaking things into definitions and specific parts and mapping it back to each cell on the framework. In fact, I was able to develop a governance model for the ministry in a manner that that defined roles, responsibilities and decision-making based on functions and sub-functions. They LOVED it!!! Understood it right away and want to extend my contract. All in all, it was an amazing week for me. The only issue I had was that it should have been longer! I feel like I have so much more to learn.

This is a thank you for your time at the course last week. I dreamed and thought of nothing but architecture over the weekend. Life in the fast lane!

It was a great course! It filled in many gaps. It was also helpful to have it with others who were not part of our Company. I especially want to thank you for your patience. I have a tendency to ask a lot of questions, even though they may have been already answered in one form or another…it’s just how I learn (i.e. get beat over the head many times until it finally sinks in).

It was my pleasure getting all the training and guidance required to develop Enterprise Architecture's. It was very informative and provided a very independent framework and methodology for developing one.

Just a quick note to say thank you for a superb piece of practical education. It has greatly assisted me on a number of fronts in my projects already.

I want to say thank you for the education the class was great and I will use to assist my organization and myself.

What I learned in class has really focused some of the questions I am able to pose during our architecture sessions. I want you to see how easily I have been able to apply what you taught.

I wish I had take your course 15 years ago - it was GREAT. Thank you again.

Fantastic workshop in last week. I know I and my colleagues found it very informative and put architecture in a different light than before.

I really enjoyed and learned so much from the workshop and has been trying to apply what you taught there.

Thanks for everything. I really enjoyed the workshop. I plan to send staff to your program in the near future.

I wanted to thank you for the excellent workshop. It was a mental-model changing experience.

The EA workshop last week was great. The format was engaging and I left with a much better understanding of EA concepts and best practices. As a PMP, I found the course content particularly applicable to the Scope Management knowledge area and the Planning process. I plan to include this workshop as an activity in my PMI Continuing Certification Requirements reporting.

Thank you for the workshop last week. It was eye-opening and fun at the same time.

Thank you very much for the training. I cannot express in words the value of your training. It figures in my top list of educational trainings I have attended.

Wanted to thank you for the workshop. I believe that what you presented can be immediately applied with little cost (meaning tools) and can be easily adopted.

I fully enjoyed the EACOE Certification Workshop. I found you interjections of real business situations into the delivered material a great help in understanding the concepts. I have already started to use some of the new Enterprise Architecture knowledge and strategies in my day to day work.

Just a quick thank you for sharing a tad bit of your knowledge and experience with us. You are a great instructor/facilitator and I appreciate the time you spent.

Thanks for a great class. I learned a lot, and got a lot of the interactions we had.

Thanks for the great training session. It was really very productive. I learned and clarified a lot in my mind on architecture frameworks for an enterprise. It is terrific to hear about actual enterprise efforts with Enterprise Architecture, and bringing direct pay offs so well.

The class was great, and I have already kicked off two projects, with backing from the CIO, leveraging your teachings. I will also be sending some architects from my staff to your next class.

I now realize I "messed" with the rest, and now have the best!
Thank you!!

I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the Workshop. Lots of good concepts, great learning. I think that what I appreciate the most is that you have open the door to a different dimension that was totally unknown to me, a different way to think, a vision that things can be simple. None of the concepts that you have explained were really new. It is the fact of making so clear that those are THE framework; that there is just a limited number of categories and that on the lines what we see are the different interest (questions) that we are trying to address what made everything look simple (not that I would be able to complete my company DNA by tomorrow, but at least I think I have an understanding of what I need to look for).

In my career I have attended numerous 1 and 2 week courses, team building exercises, and other educational experiences. Few have been as satisfying to me at the end, as this one has.