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Methods and Challenges in Enterprise Architecture

Practical perspectives on enterprise-architecture

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog shows how different methods and challenges provide usefully-alternative perspectives on enterprise-architecture and the like. It also demonstrates the importance of discipline and formal rigour in architectures.

This book includes about 40 posts and 105 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:

  • Perspectives and Disciplines: Method - describes a range of practical checks and methods that can be applied within enterprise-architectures and suchlike.
  • Perspectives and Disciplines: Theory to Practice - explores theory-oriented challenges on formal-rigour in the practice of enterprise-architecture and the like.
  • Perspectives and Disciplines: Discipline - provides practical examples and tests on ways to improve discipline and rigour in architecture-practice.
  • Perspectives and Disciplines: Challenges - outlines real-world challenges where discipline and rigour are called for in enterprise-architecture and suchlike.

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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

METHODS AND CHALLENGES: INTRODUCTION

METHODS AND CHALLENGES: METHOD

What I do and how I do it

What I do, and why

Reframing the way I work

On reflexive methodology

Enterprise architecture as language

Listen for the real narrative

Between the boxes

Function, capability and affordance

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture practice

On ‘T&C’

Hypotheses, method and recursion

Engaging stakeholders in healthcare-IT

Architecting the shadows

Tools for change: Back to the basics

Change-mapping: Plan and Action

METHODS AND CHALLENGES: THEORY FOR PRACTICE

Two enterprise-architectures

  1. IT-oriented enterprise-architecture
  2. Whole-enterprise architecture
  3. Summary

Ending the shoot-out at the EA Corral

An end to the arguments

Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor

  1. The swamp-metaphor
  2. SCANning the swamp
  3. Idea, hypothesis, theory, law
  4. Layers and recursion

Sensemaking – modes and disciplines

  1. Four modes and seven sins
  2. Emphasis and tactics within each mode

The science of enterprise-architecture (short version)

Models and reasoning-processes in enterprise-architecture

Technology-adoption, technology-evolution and lifecycle-management

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

Technology-adoption and time-horizons

METHODS AND CHALLENGES: DISCIPLINE

On being and becoming

Ideafarming

How do you think?

Embracing our inner weirdness

Bending reality (short version)

  1. Practical implications for enterprise-architecture

Bending reality

  1. Test structure
  2. Implications for enterprise-architecture

On (not) changing the world

METHODS AND CHALLENGES: CHALLENGES

The long and the short

Data-architecture 101 and the naming-problem

Yet more on ‘No jobs for generalists’ (Part 1)

  1. Two paradigms – or three, perhaps
  2. Implications for recruitment
  3. Implications for business-education

On sensemaking-models and framework-wars

Earthquakes and enterprise-architecture

Healthcare and information-flow

When what you need most is the paddle…

Push or pull? - two views of enterprise

Enterprise-architecture - a status-report

Enterprise-architecture - a changes report

Enterprise-architecture - a near-futures report

  1. Organisational strategy
  2. Skills and work

1: Complex Problem Solving (previously #1)

2: Critical Thinking (previously #4)

3: Creativity (previously #10)

  1. Sustainability and other anticlient-issues
  2. Expanding scope and scale

Enterprise-architecture - a further-futures report

Enterprise-architecture: Clawing our way out of limbo

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