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How not to fail in enterprise architecture

Common antipatterns and how to avoid them

Tom Graves

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This anthology from the Tetradian weblog demonstrates the importance of discipline and formal rigour in architectures - and what happens if the discipline fails, or the rigour is absent.

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

  • How Not To Fail: Concept-Critique - raises key questions about quality of formal-rigour, theory and discipline in current enterprise-architecture and beyond.
  • How Not To Fail: Method-Critique - also raises key questions and concerns about quality and reliability of method in current 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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HOW NOT TO FAIL IN EA: INTRODUCTION

HOW NOT TO FAIL IN EA: CONCEPT-CRITIQUE

The dangers of ‘term-hijack’

Magical-thinking and knowledge-management

The absurdity of belief

Intimations of hubris

Round in circles on enterprise-architecture

IT-centrism, business-centrism and business-architecture

Skills-shortages and ‘the market’

Showing my age, I guess…

The over-certainties of certification

On dubious definitions

“Who will lead us out of our uncertainty?”

If it’s not AE, it’s not EA

Efficient, effective, convenient?

“The history of enterprise architecture proves…”

Beware of ‘policy-based evidence’

  1. Implications for enterprise-architecture

John Zachman and the curate’s egg

Dump the BDAT-stack!

HOW NOT TO FAIL IN EA: METHOD-CRITIQUE

The autism of Enterprise Architecture?

Whuffie, currency and the ‘ready-fire-aim’ syndrome

How IT-centrism creeps into enterprise-architecture

Broken

Why broken?

A bit more broken

Unbreaking

  1. Conflict: Engineers versus scientists
  2. Conflict: Stability versus agility

Sometimes the small details do matter

The stench of systemic decay

Fail, to learn

Spot the difference

How architectures fail - 1: Architecture vs design

How architectures fail - 2: Scope of action

How architectures fail - 3: Constraints

Why ‘engineering the enterprise’ doesn’t work

Missing the point

Open Group, HERA and healthcare

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

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