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On enterprise-architecture practice

Concepts and guidance to underpin practice

Tom Graves

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores core principles and guidance for real-world practice for enterprise-architecture and its related disciplines.

This book includes about 40 posts and 50 images from the weblog. These posts are split into two groups:

  • Practice: Essential Principles - outlines some essential guiding-principles for working on enterprise-architectures and more.
  • Practice: Guidance - presents practical guidelines and guidance for use in change-projects of all kinds.

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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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Table of Contents

PRACTICE: INTRODUCTION

PRACTICE: ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES

I don’t know

“It depends…”

Just Enough Detail

Working with ‘I don’t know’

On working with uncertainty

On not eating the elephant

Transparency

How do you think?

Methods, mechanics, approaches

There’s no short-cut to experience

PRACTICE: GUIDANCE

Enterprise architecture and the ‘small countries’

VPEC-T

Enterprise-architecture: Bring on the clowns?

More on business-models

Why business-model to enterprise-architecture?

Enterprise-architecture and the Cloud

The Cloud is in the cloud

Decision-making – belief, fact, theory and practice

  1. It gets complicated…
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Don’t start with How

On chaos in enterprise-architecture

Control, complex, chaotic

Best practices – adapt, then adopt

Scalability and uniqueness

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Models and reasoning-processes in enterprise-architecture

Starting-friction

Putting capabilities to use

CRUD, CRUDE and other action-acronyms

Product, service and trust

An enterprise-architects’ mantra

Why the ‘why’ matters

  1. Practical implications

Toolsets for associative modelling

Catching ideas in flight

Enterprise-architecture - it’s about (much) more than just IT

IT - it’s about (much) more than just ‘digital-stuff’

Digital-transformation - it’s about (much) more than just digital

The Performance Paradox

Architecting the shadows

Against fragmentation

Why I write long posts

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