The Practice of Enterprise Architecture
eBook - ePub

The Practice of Enterprise Architecture

A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

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eBook - ePub

The Practice of Enterprise Architecture

A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

About this book

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a set of descriptions relevant to both business and IT intended to bridge the communication gap between business and IT stakeholders in organizations, facilitate information systems planning and improve business and IT alignment. Due to complex historical reasons, the notion of enterprise architecture was always surrounded by endless speculations, dangerous myths, non-existing best practices, unfulfilled promises, expensive failures and grave disappointments. Traditionally the entire discourse around enterprise architecture was dominated by shallow advice and faddish approaches (e.g. well-known EA frameworks) infinitely distant from the practical realities, but nonetheless aggressively promoted by commercially motivated consultancies and gurus. At the same time, realistic and trustworthy information on enterprise architecture is still incredibly hard to find in any available sources.

Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices and existing EA literature, this book provides a unique, systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture. In particular, this book offers clear, research-based, conceptually sound and practically actionable answers to the key questions related to enterprise architecture:

  • What is the meaning of enterprise architecture and an EA practice?
  • What processes constitute established EA practices and how do they work?
  • What EA artifacts are used in successful EA practices and how?
  • What is the best way to structure architecture roles and functions?
  • What software tools and modeling languages are necessary for enterprise architecture?
  • How to initiate an EA practice in organizations from scratch and evolve it?
  • Where do current EA best practices originate from?

This book is organized in a highly structured, sequential manner and does not require any prior knowledge of enterprise architecture. The book is intended for a broad audience of people interested in enterprise architecture including practicing and aspiring architects, architecture managers, academic EA researchers, EA lecturers and students in universities.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. PART I: Introduction to Enterprise Architecture
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: The Concept of Enterprise Architecture
  8. Chapter 3: The Role of Enterprise Architecture Practice
  9. Chapter 4: Enterprise Architecture and City Planning
  10. Chapter 5: The Dialog Between Business and IT
  11. Chapter 6: Processes of Enterprise Architecture Practice
  12. Chapter 7: IT Initiatives and Enterprise Architecture
  13. PART II: Enterprise Architecture Artifacts
  14. Chapter 8: The CSVLOD Model of Enterprise Architecture
  15. Chapter 9: Considerations
  16. Chapter 10: Standards
  17. Chapter 11: Visions
  18. Chapter 12: Landscapes
  19. Chapter 13: Outlines
  20. Chapter 14: Designs
  21. Chapter 15: The CSVLOD Model Revisited
  22. PART III: Other Aspects of Enterprise Architecture
  23. Chapter 16: Architects in Enterprise Architecture Practice
  24. Chapter 17: Architecture Functions in Organizations
  25. Chapter 18: Instruments for Enterprise Architecture
  26. Chapter 19: The Lifecycle of Enterprise Architecture Practice
  27. Afterword
  28. Appendix A: The Origin of EA and Modern EA Best Practices
  29. Appendix B: Enterprise Architecture Teaching Pack
  30. Notes
  31. References
  32. About the Author