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Enterprise architecture frameworks: IT-oriented

Concerns and questions about IT-frameworks

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog focuses on tools and frameworks used in IT-oriented enterprise-architecture.

This book includes about 40 posts and 35 images from the weblog. These posts are split into two groups:

  • Frameworks: IT-oriented - assesses key frameworks for IT-oriented architectures, and issues arising from usages of those frameworks.
  • Frameworks: Zachman - reassesses the various elements of the row-and-column Zachman framework, in particular via the series of posts on ‘Rethinking Zachman’.

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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.

Contents

Table of Contents

FRAMEWORKS: INTRODUCTION

FRAMEWORKS: IT-ORIENTED

At TOGAF

TOGAF and SOA

TOGAF 9 – first impressions

More on the TOGAF conference

TOGAF and SDLC

Summary from the TOGAF conference

TOGAF Certified

More on TOGAF and certification

TOGAF at the crossroads

Cleaning up the TOGAF ADM

Zachman and capability

More on Zachman and capability

TOGAF for Feds

TOGAF Phases B C D

On Archimate 2.0

  1. Why Archimate?
  2. Bad-news: there’s no fundamental move away from IT-centrism
  3. Good-news: the Motivation extension
  4. Good-news: the Implementation & Migration extension
  5. Good-news: the Location entity, and other minor amendments
  6. What next?

On Archimate 3.0

On modelling ‘self-service’ with Archimate

Is Archimate too IT-centric for enterprise-architecture?

Unravelling the anatomy of Archimate

  1. The anatomy of Archimate
  2. Rethinking the anatomy of Archimate

Spot the difference

Dump the BDAT-stack!

Open Group, HERA and healthcare

  1. The good(ish)
  2. The bad(ish)
  3. The ugly (very)
  4. Real-world crosschecks

FRAMEWORKS: ZACHMAN

Zachman and TOGAF revisited

Rethinking Zachman – the rows

Rethinking Zachman – the columns

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘What’ column

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘How’ column

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘Where’ column

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘Who’ column

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘When’ column

Rethinking Zachman – the ‘Why’ column

Rethinking Zachman – a summary

Responses to ‘Rethinking Zachman’

Rethinking Zachman – a tweak on ‘time’

Rethinking Zachman – replying to Michael Ellyett

On EA-framework columns

On EA ‘owners’ and primitives

Rethinking the layers in enterprise-architecture

Architecture: To-be is top-down, as-is is bottom-up

A question of Who

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