REAL Talk With Sam Holcman

In this episode of Real Talk with Sam Holcman, we sit down with Mohammed Khalil, a Senior Enterprise and Business Architect who has implemented Enterprise Architecture across multiple industries worldwide. Mohammed walks through how he applied the EACOE methodology at one of Canada’s largest universities to reinvent how they manage curriculum - from idea to approval to delivery.

He shares why he chose the EACOE Workshop and Certification over other alternatives, how he went from completing the EACOE Workshop to real implementation by Monday morning, and the concrete business results that followed: faster, cleaner decision-making, a clear three-year roadmap the business actually understood, and stakeholders who finally felt like architecture was working with them, not to them. 

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/74lfKxzP8lw

ABOUT: The Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence™ (EACOE) and the Business Architecture Center Of Excellence™ (BACOE) provide a universal understanding and competence forum on Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture for General Management, Technologists, Academicians, and Practitioners interested in implementing Enterprise Architecture or Business Architecture. We are practitioner-based firms advancing the Enterprise Architect and Business Architect profession, discipline, and base of understanding - since 1972.

- More on Enterprise Architecture: www.EACOE.org

- More on Business Architecture: www.BACOE.org

A great enterprise architect and business architect is defined by mindset, behaviors, and outcomes in the real organization, not by the ability to pass a multiple‑choice exam.  Listen in for valuable parameters to think about.

Welcome to Real Talk with Sam Holcman, where we connect ideas, innovation, and intelligent decision-making. Today’s reflection: irrational exuberance - a phrase coined by former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan in 1996 and revisited today through the lens of the AI revolution.

Greenspan’s words warned of a human tendency - collective overconfidence - when belief outpaces evidence. It describes markets, but really, it describes us. Fast-forward nearly three decades, and you will hear the same energy around artificial intelligence: limitless potential, intense speculation, and a sense that this is the future.

TOGAF® is talked about and used, but an increasing number of major practitioners and researchers argue that it misses several critical ingredients for modern, outcome‑driven enterprise architecture. In the age of EA 5.0, these critical ingredients are lacking.  This broadcast will outline these ingredients that are lacking.

Today’s Broadcast. Billions were wasted, companies bankrupted, and governments embarrassed - all because of something we take for granted: software.

This article is based on an outstanding article titled “Why Software Fails” by Robert N. Charette, in IEEE Spectrum, December 2025.

You have probably heard the old saying “software is eating the world.” But what happens when software eats itself?