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title: "[Interview] Natty Gur - Organizational Enterprise Architecture"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/21/interview-natty-gur-organizational-enterprise-architecture.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/21/interview-natty-gur-organizational-enterprise-architecture.html"
published: "2005-01-21T01:58:00"
updated: "2005-01-21T01:58:00"
tags: ["Interview"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Download the Mp3 file here (note: this specific interview was conducted in Hebrew) \"Summary Roy Talks with Natty Gur - An independent software consultant specializing in Enterprise architecture - in the organizational…"
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license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Interview\] Natty Gur - Organizational Enterprise Architecture

By Roy Osherove January 21, 2005 In [Interview](https://osherove.com/blog/category/interview)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 21, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

_[Download the Mp3 file here](http://www.teamagile.com/mainpages/Interviews.html)_ 

_(note: this specific interview was conducted in Hebrew)_

**_"Summary_**

_Roy Talks with_ [_Natty Gur_](http://weblogs.asp.net/NGur) _- An independent software consultant specializing in Enterprise architecture - in the organizational level. In this interview we'll explore what organizational architecture really means and why its needed. More topics in the interview include Natty's open source project,_ [_NWAF_](http://nwaf.sf.net/)_, Service oriented architecture, organizational patterns such as_ [_TOGAF_](http://theopengroup.org/) _and DODAF, the problems with layered architecture (N-Tier), Agile development, learning from past mistakes and Naked objects. Good stuff."_

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