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Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice: Tools, Tips, Best Practices, Ready-to-Use Insights
Is your enterprise architecture making a difference? Does it contribute to the goals of your company? Are the architects your best paid employees? If you are striving for a full-hearted yes to these questions, this is the book for you.
Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice provides practical advice on how to develop your enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise architecture function. The application of these tools and models in many different organizations forms the basis for this book. The result is a hands-on book that will help you to avoid certain pitfalls and achieve success with enterprise architecture.
A lot of organizations nowadays have a team of enterprise architects at work but struggle with questions like:
- How do I show the added value of enterprise architecture?
- How do I determine what specific architectures are necessary for my organization?
- What steps do I need to take to improve my enterprise architecture practice?
- How do I fulfill the role of enterprise architect?
These questions are answered in this book and illustrated with a lot of best practices.
After reading the book the reader will have a better understanding of what makes enterprise architecture successful and will possess the tools to analyse his own situation and build an enterprise architecture practice accordingly.
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This book clearly describes how to establish an architecture practice that delivers value for an organization. The authors demonstrate a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the multifaceted nature of this challenging task and they provide sound advice on how to avoid the many pitfalls that may be encountered along the way.
Recognising that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach, they show how to deploy a range of practical tools and approaches that will enable each organization to create its own road map to success. In particular, their Maturity Matrix is invaluable for balancing architecture priorities and targeting improvements. The book makes a significant contribution to the professionalization of the architect role.
Sally Bean, Enterprise Architecture Consultant
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Too many books on enterprise architecture leave one in a state of mental fuzziness: After reading them, the reader has learned a lot of impressive words but still does not know how to design an enterprise architecture. This step by step guide to DYA is different.
It provides pragmatic guidelines for developing enterprise architecture and presents a maturity model that helps the users of DYA to state realistic goals and to outline feasible steps to achieve these goals. Particularly useful is the emphasis on a coherent enterprise architecture vision, including the value added by the architecture. I warmly recommend this book to practicing enterprise architects.
Prof. Dr. Roel Wieringa, Universiteit Twente
Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice provides practical advice on how to develop your enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise architecture function. The application of these tools and models in many different organizations forms the basis for this book. The result is a hands-on book that will help you to avoid certain pitfalls and achieve success with enterprise architecture.
A lot of organizations nowadays have a team of enterprise architects at work but struggle with questions like:
- How do I show the added value of enterprise architecture?
- How do I determine what specific architectures are necessary for my organization?
- What steps do I need to take to improve my enterprise architecture practice?
- How do I fulfill the role of enterprise architect?
These questions are answered in this book and illustrated with a lot of best practices.
After reading the book the reader will have a better understanding of what makes enterprise architecture successful and will possess the tools to analyse his own situation and build an enterprise architecture practice accordingly.
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This book clearly describes how to establish an architecture practice that delivers value for an organization. The authors demonstrate a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the multifaceted nature of this challenging task and they provide sound advice on how to avoid the many pitfalls that may be encountered along the way.
Recognising that there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach, they show how to deploy a range of practical tools and approaches that will enable each organization to create its own road map to success. In particular, their Maturity Matrix is invaluable for balancing architecture priorities and targeting improvements. The book makes a significant contribution to the professionalization of the architect role.
Sally Bean, Enterprise Architecture Consultant
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Too many books on enterprise architecture leave one in a state of mental fuzziness: After reading them, the reader has learned a lot of impressive words but still does not know how to design an enterprise architecture. This step by step guide to DYA is different.
It provides pragmatic guidelines for developing enterprise architecture and presents a maturity model that helps the users of DYA to state realistic goals and to outline feasible steps to achieve these goals. Particularly useful is the emphasis on a coherent enterprise architecture vision, including the value added by the architecture. I warmly recommend this book to practicing enterprise architects.
Prof. Dr. Roel Wieringa, Universiteit Twente
222 pages, Hardcover
First published December 31, 2005
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April 1, 2019
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Amazon:As a practicing Enterprise Architect (EA) I have found the to be an good book for reference - if used as a filler along with other books. If your are new to EA this is a good book to have in your library, however it is not the only one you will need. This book is somewhat thin on content in many critical areas, but what is present is of fairly good quality. An example of missing detail would be how to create and maintain an ongoing EA practice that will survive beyond the first budget review cycle. This book talks about the steps of creating a practice in theory and uses a sample company as an example, however it is idealized for the book and does not reflect reality in today's world of "what have you done for me lately" economics. It is quite expensive for what you get, considering that it is just enough to make you realize that you need a whole lot more that you did not get.
This book does exactly what it promises: giving tips and guidance for those that need to start an enterprise architecture unit. The book is not intended for accomplished enterprise architects; those will find only little value - a lot of common ground and already understood practices in enterprise architecture. For those that are far less than accomplished asking themselves: "What am I supposed to do?" the book has a lot to offer. First: the book is a reasonable introduction to enterprise architecture itself and the major issues to be aware of when starting implementing an architecture. Although it falls short of the rigor and detail that is found for example, in the "TOGAF Architecture Development Method" and is based on a older version thereof, it does give the reader the understanding to comprehend the much higher complexity of formal enterprise architecture frameworks. Second: the book stresses the need for a balanced approach by dividing the beginning architect's attention between business benefits to be gained from enterprise architecture and the need for its implementation on the ground. Third: the book gives some valuable advice on how to measure progress whilst gaining architectural maturity in both, organization and implementation. On the shadow side of the book it must be said that the number of criteria (18) to follow-up on is unrealistically high and need to be simplified and reduced (as we did) to 3 or perhaps 4 measurement criteria. Nonetheless, for beginning enterprise architects a good way to start.
The book has 11 years. Too old, doesn't present any market methodology.
Great book for an EA starting out, or for anyone needing a more detailed overview of the process of Enterprise Architecture.
I have not gone through the whole book but going through the first 3 chapters I kind of liked the pace at which the book is written. The fundamentals are clearly documented with equal emphasis on product , process and people. Nice clear diagram to covey the concepts. I think it is a good buy.
Amazon:As a practicing Enterprise Architect (EA) I have found the to be an good book for reference - if used as a filler along with other books. If your are new to EA this is a good book to have in your library, however it is not the only one you will need. This book is somewhat thin on content in many critical areas, but what is present is of fairly good quality. An example of missing detail would be how to create and maintain an ongoing EA practice that will survive beyond the first budget review cycle. This book talks about the steps of creating a practice in theory and uses a sample company as an example, however it is idealized for the book and does not reflect reality in today's world of "what have you done for me lately" economics. It is quite expensive for what you get, considering that it is just enough to make you realize that you need a whole lot more that you did not get.
This book does exactly what it promises: giving tips and guidance for those that need to start an enterprise architecture unit. The book is not intended for accomplished enterprise architects; those will find only little value - a lot of common ground and already understood practices in enterprise architecture. For those that are far less than accomplished asking themselves: "What am I supposed to do?" the book has a lot to offer. First: the book is a reasonable introduction to enterprise architecture itself and the major issues to be aware of when starting implementing an architecture. Although it falls short of the rigor and detail that is found for example, in the "TOGAF Architecture Development Method" and is based on a older version thereof, it does give the reader the understanding to comprehend the much higher complexity of formal enterprise architecture frameworks. Second: the book stresses the need for a balanced approach by dividing the beginning architect's attention between business benefits to be gained from enterprise architecture and the need for its implementation on the ground. Third: the book gives some valuable advice on how to measure progress whilst gaining architectural maturity in both, organization and implementation. On the shadow side of the book it must be said that the number of criteria (18) to follow-up on is unrealistically high and need to be simplified and reduced (as we did) to 3 or perhaps 4 measurement criteria. Nonetheless, for beginning enterprise architects a good way to start.
The book has 11 years. Too old, doesn't present any market methodology.
Great book for an EA starting out, or for anyone needing a more detailed overview of the process of Enterprise Architecture.
I have not gone through the whole book but going through the first 3 chapters I kind of liked the pace at which the book is written. The fundamentals are clearly documented with equal emphasis on product , process and people. Nice clear diagram to covey the concepts. I think it is a good buy.
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April 13, 2021
Basically what's in the book title matches the content, but, it's not an easy book. The author presents some good examples and tools for what is EA and how to use it depending on your company reality, but I found the examples quite vague and some very difficult to understand and follow.
It's not a bad book per se, but it's not ideal for who is entering on the subject.
It's not a bad book per se, but it's not ideal for who is entering on the subject.
December 27, 2019
Good book, it has a good introduction. The first part is good, but the second part more on an explanation of DYA Framework.
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"It is difficult for organizations to change. Many strategic initiatives end in failure because the required changes are viewed in isolation rather than in relation to each other"
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"It is difficult for organizations to change. Many strategic initiatives end in failure because the required changes are viewed in isolation rather than in relation to each other"
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April 10, 2016Like the simpler approach then bernard or spewak but more concrete than weill & ross
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