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Collaborative Enterprise Architecture
Enriching EA with Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 practices
- 1st Edition - August 29, 2012
- Authors: Stefan Bente, Uwe Bombosch, Shailendra Langade
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 9 3 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 5 9 8 9 - 1
Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEver-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises’ management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey.Unfortunately, today’s EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions today’s enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts’ insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change.
- Covers the latest emerging technologies affecting business practice, including digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0
- Focuses on the practical implementation of EAM rather than theory, with recommendations based on real-world case studies
- Addresses changing business demands and practices, including Enterprise 2.0, open source, global sourcing, and more
- Takes an innovative approach to EAM, merging standard top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up strategies, offering real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide changes
Primary: Upper IT management and practitioners, including CTOs/CIOs, lead architects, and enterprise architects. Secondary: Computer Science graduate students.
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Why Collaborative Enterprise Architecture?
Reasons for this book
Goals and benefits of enterprise architecture
The gray reality: Enterprise architecture failures
Enriching EA by Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 Practices
Chapter 2. What Is Enterprise Architecture?
The meaning of architecture
Applying architecture to an enterprise
EA applicability and use
Chapter 3. What Enterprise Architects Do: Core Activities of EA
Defining the IT strategy (EA-1)
Modeling the architectures (EA-2)
Evolving the IT landscape (EA-3)
Assessing and building capabilities (EA-4)
Developing and enforcing standards and guidelines (EA-5)
Monitoring the project portfolio (EA-6)
Leading or coaching projects (EA-7)
Managing risks involved in IT (EA-8)
Chapter 4. EA Frameworks
What is an EA framework?
The Zachman framework for enterprise architecture
The open group architecture framework (TOGAF)
Gartner methodology (formerly META framework)
The role and use of EA frameworks
Chapter 5. EA Maturity Models
Applying maturity model to EA
OMB EA assessment framework
Architecture capability maturity model of the US department of commerce
EA maturity model by MIT center for information system research
Experiences with the maturity models
Chapter 6. Foundations of Collaborative EA
Reflections on complexity
The EA dashboard as a yardstick for EA effectiveness
Chapter 7. Toward Pragmatism: Lean and Agile EA
The architecture factory: Applying lean and agile methods to EA
Lean and agile principles
Building Block 1: Get rid of waste by streamlining architecture processes
Building Block 2: Involve all stakeholders by interlocking architecture scrums
Building Block 3: Practice iterative architecture through EA Kanban
Chapter 8. Inviting to Participation: EAM 2.0
A primer on Enterprise 2.0
Building Block 4: Participation in knowledge
Building Block 5: Participation in decisions
Building Block 6: Participation in transformation
The bottom line: Inviting to explore
Chapter 9. The Next Steps: Taking Collaborative EA Forward
A summary
Getting started with collaborative EA
Looking ahead
APPENDIX: The Bank4Us staff
References
Index
- No. of pages: 328
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 29, 2012
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124159341
- eBook ISBN: 9780124159891
SB
Stefan Bente
Affiliations and expertise
Head of Software Architecutre DC Dusseldorf, Tata Consultancy ServicesUB
Uwe Bombosch
Affiliations and expertise
Enterprise Architect, Tata Consultancy ServicesSL
Shailendra Langade
Affiliations and expertise
Enterprise Architecture Practice Lead, Tata ConsultancyRead Collaborative Enterprise Architecture on ScienceDirect