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Practical support for architecture discipline

Tom Graves

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog provides a curated collection of posts that cover a range of concepts to guide sensemaking and decision-making in enterprise-architecture and the like. Most of these posts are unique to this anthology, and have not been included elsewhere in the series.

This book includes about 35 posts and 70 images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

  • Concepts: Basics - outlines essential concepts for the earlier stages in skills-development for architectures.
  • Concepts: General - illustrates core concepts that apply across the overall architecture-space, from IT-architectures to whole-enterprise architecture and beyond.
  • Concepts: Complexity - assesses concepts that apply specifically to complex issues.

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Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

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CONCEPTS: INTRODUCTION

CONCEPTS: BASICS

Methods, mechanics, approaches

Form follows non-function

Where have all the good skills gone?

The other iceberg effect

What What? and other taxonomic tangles

CONCEPTS: GENERAL

Jakob Nielsen on real-world ‘Enterprise 2.0’

IT-oriented versus IT-centric

Competence, non-competence and incompetence

House and home

“Science, which is a belief-system”

Enterprise and ecosystem

The end of enterprise-architecture?

The identity of enterprise architecture

Connection is what matters

Product and service

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Services, customers and citizens

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Architecture, structure and story

Structure, story and relational-assets

Price, value, worth and cost

Efficient versus effective

Efficient versus effective (an addendum)

Like magic…

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Organisation and enterprise

Organisation and enterprise as ‘how’ and ‘why’

Context-perspectives and enterprise-architecture maturity

Two acronyms: ENDS and MEANS

  1. The art and science of engineering

Rethinking RACI

CONCEPTS: COMPLEXITY

Against fragmentation

Enterprise-architecture is wicked

  1. Tame-problems and wicked-problems
  2. Designing for wickedness

Complex, complicated, and Einstein’s dice

Requisite-fuzziness

Sensemaking and the flocking of Boyds

Three kinds of chaos

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