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Everyday Enterprise Architecture: Sense-making, Strategy, Structures, and Solutions
Discover what needs to happen in enterprise-architecture practice—and not just its outcomes, but also the activities from which those outcomes would arise. This book reveals how business and enterprise architects can deliver fast solutions to an always-on-the-go business world.
To begin, you'll review a new technique called "context-space mapping," which provides a structured method for sense-making across the entire context of an enterprise. Throughout the book, you'll concentrate on the routine practices that underpin each of the architecture disciplines.
Working step-by-step through a real 10-day architecture project, this book explores the activities that underpin the strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise architect’s everyday work. You'll explore how and why and when the various documents, artefacts and items of ‘theory-stuff’ come into the practice – all those mainstream methods, frameworks, models, metamodels and other information sources.
In the end, Everyday Enterprise Architecture will help you develop the skills, judgment, and awareness to keep enhancing the value of your architectural projects.
What You'll Learn
Work on architectures at "business-speed"Adapt architectures for different tasksGather, use, and manage architectural information
Who This Book Is For
Enterprise and business architects.
To begin, you'll review a new technique called "context-space mapping," which provides a structured method for sense-making across the entire context of an enterprise. Throughout the book, you'll concentrate on the routine practices that underpin each of the architecture disciplines.
Working step-by-step through a real 10-day architecture project, this book explores the activities that underpin the strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise architect’s everyday work. You'll explore how and why and when the various documents, artefacts and items of ‘theory-stuff’ come into the practice – all those mainstream methods, frameworks, models, metamodels and other information sources.
In the end, Everyday Enterprise Architecture will help you develop the skills, judgment, and awareness to keep enhancing the value of your architectural projects.
What You'll Learn
Work on architectures at "business-speed"Adapt architectures for different tasksGather, use, and manage architectural information
Who This Book Is For
Enterprise and business architects.
297 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 30, 2010
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January 24, 2024
The example project Graves describes in his book is well-chosen because it demonstrates that Enterprise Architecture is so much more than IT Architecture (as it always seems to be interpreted).
The approach described in the book is a mixture of the TOGAF Standard and the Zachman Framework, supplemented by the author's own views. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the first argument for not using the method described: most organizations prefer to stick with one of the familiar methodologies.
In addition, the book identifies steps that we as readers can take to achieve an end result. For me, the steps feel like they come out of the blue because they are not explained anywhere. This makes it hard to repeat the steps, which could count as a second argument for not using the method described.
A third argument is perhaps that this is another book (one of many) that describes the "what" but leaves out the "how". Coupled with the absent explanation of how to reproduce the steps mentioned in the book, it misses the point of reusability.
The systematic dismissal of the TOGAF framework - even if it is done in a nuanced way - somewhat detracts from the quality of the story. I am a fan of Graves’ books, but am sad to find this one of the lesser ones.
The approach described in the book is a mixture of the TOGAF Standard and the Zachman Framework, supplemented by the author's own views. Unfortunately, this immediately creates the first argument for not using the method described: most organizations prefer to stick with one of the familiar methodologies.
In addition, the book identifies steps that we as readers can take to achieve an end result. For me, the steps feel like they come out of the blue because they are not explained anywhere. This makes it hard to repeat the steps, which could count as a second argument for not using the method described.
A third argument is perhaps that this is another book (one of many) that describes the "what" but leaves out the "how". Coupled with the absent explanation of how to reproduce the steps mentioned in the book, it misses the point of reusability.
The systematic dismissal of the TOGAF framework - even if it is done in a nuanced way - somewhat detracts from the quality of the story. I am a fan of Graves’ books, but am sad to find this one of the lesser ones.
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