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Story and Enterprise Architecture

Using story to support architecture-development

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores how concepts of story can be applied in enterprise-architecture and the like - not just as a support-tool, but as architecture-frameworks in their own right.

This book includes almost forty posts and eighty images from the weblog. These posts are split into three groups:

  • Story: Role - outlines the role of story in enterprise-architecture and the like.
  • Story: Lead-in - provides worked-examples of how to use a real-world story to introduce and illustrate a complex, challenging or technical topic.
  • Story: Frameworks - describes story-oriented frameworks that can be used to guide architecture- and process-development.

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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

STORY AND EA: INTRODUCTION

STORY ROLE

Two points of view on (enterprise) architecture

Enterprise-architecture? – it’s all about story

The enterprise is the story

Enterprise as story: a cafe example

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Architecture, structure and story

To change the structure, change the story

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Michael Margolis on story (and business)

SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis

If the enterprise is a story, what is its backstory?

STORY LEAD-IN

Anecdotes and government-policy

EA: past and future, money and story

Wizard, in reverse

“I die inside…”

Pointless paperwork

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Services and Enterprise Canvas review - worked-example

  1. Practical implications

RBPEA: Object, subject and ‘should’

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Enterprise-architectures for the real world

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Catching ideas in flight

Small detail, big impact

A new direction?

The long and the short

Making enterprise-architecture more tangible

Why make enterprise-architecture more tangible?

Service-design: How long is a service?

Why whole-enterprise architecture matters

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

On effectiveness, solutions and story

Structure, story and relational-assets

Guiding the dance of change

Culture, remarkable

Sensemaking: Down in the dungeons

Who are your anti-clients?

  1. The enterprise and the market
  2. A real example: ‘United Breaks Guitars’
  3. Take action

Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare

The weight of the past

Sometimes it takes a while…

Enterprise-architecture: Clawing our way out of limbo

STORY FRAMEWORKS

NOTES - an alternative approach for EA

NOTES - putting it into practice

Some notes on NOTES

NOTES - actors, agents and extras in the enterprise

  1. Actors
  2. Agents
  3. Extras
  4. Practical implications for enterprise architecture

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