Autorzy | |
Wydawnictwo | Springer, Berlin |
Data wydania | |
Liczba stron | 221 |
Forma publikacji | książka w miękkiej oprawie |
Język | angielski |
ISBN | 9781484289037 |
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Discover what needs to happen in enterprise-architecture practice-and not just its outcomes, but also the activities from which those outcomes would arise. This book reveals how business and enterprise architects can deliver fast solutions to an always-on-the-go business world.
To begin, you'll review a new technique called "context-space mapping," which provides a structured method for sense-making across the entire context of an enterprise. Throughout the book, you'll concentrate on the routine practices that underpin each of the architecture disciplines.
Working step-by-step through a real 10-day architecture project, this book explores the activities that underpin the strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise architect's everyday work. You'll explore how and why and when the various documents, artefacts and items of 'theory-stuff' come into the practice - all those mainstream methods, frameworks, models, metamodels and other information sources.
In the end, Everyday Enterprise Architecture will help you develop the skills, judgment, and awareness to keep enhancing the value of your architectural projects.
What You'll Learn
Enterprise and business architects.
Everyday Enterprise Architecture: Sense-making, Strategy, Structures, and Solutions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter Goal: Describe the purpose of the book, how to use it, and what the various elements are
No of pages 4
Sub -Topics
1. Main project: How to use architecture ideas and activities to describe what actually happens in a real enterprise-architecture project, and the business-reasons and business-value for each of those activities
2. Secondary project: Worked-example
3. Application: How to adapt each chapter's content to our own work
Chapter 2: Day 1: Get Started
Chapter Goal: Show how to get started on a project, and summarise how the allocated ten days will be used
No of pages 16
Sub -Topics
1 Do an initial assessment
2 Show how to use the project-diary and other tools3 Show how to do an initial assessment
4 Show how to apply any 'lessons-learned' in our own projects
Chapter 3: Day 2: Purpose, scope and context
Chapter Goal: Set up and start the main and secondary projects
No of pages: 16
Sub - Topics
1 Introduce the main project as exploring 'the architecture of architecture'
2 Show how to use the step-by-step action-task sequence3 Introduce the secondary project: customer-breakdown at a bank
4 Show how to use the same step-by-step-step sequence for the bank content
Chapter 4: Day 3: What's going on?
Chapter Goal: Learn how to do an architecture-assessment
No of pages : 18
Sub - Topics:
1 Explore how to do a 'to-be' (futures) assessment
2 Explore how to do an 'as-was' (past) assessment
3 Explore how to identify issues that need to be addressed4 Learn how to cope with the challenges and stresses of the work
Chapter 5: Day 4: What do we want?
Chapter Goal: Learn how to establish a baseline
No of pages: 12
Sub - Topics:
1 Explore how to do an 'as-is' (present) assessment
2 How to do social-enquiry with stakeholders
3 How to tackle the politics of architecture
4 Architecture as decision-support for stakeholders, not decision-making
Chapter 6: Day 5: What's the difference?
Chapter Goal: How to identify gaps where change is needed
No of pages 14
Sub -Topics
1 Identify and build the skillsets needed for comparison-assessments
2 How to do comparisons to identify gaps (including hidden-gaps)3 How to prioritise gaps and derive requirements
4 How and why to avoid the temptation to rush to 'solutions'
Chapter 7: Day 6: How do we get from here to there?
Chapter Goal: Guiding the transition to solution-design
No of pages 10
Sub -Topics
1 How to identify the roles and specialisms needed for solution-design
2 How to identify, work with and hand over to the change-team
3 How to refine and simplify change-requirements
4 Politics reminder: architecture is decision-support, not decision-making
Chapter 8: Day 7: Step-by-step details
Chapter Goal: Learn the relative roles and relations between architecture and design
No of pages 12
Sub -Topics
1 Role of architect as generalist, to connect specialists together
2 How to develop and use sense-making skills
3 Role of architect to assist in finding missing-detail
4 How to identify common missing-detail (system-failure, timescale, decommission)
Chapter 9: Day 8: Putting it into practice
Chapter Goal: What to do when the stakeholders themselves are the solutions
No of pages 14
Sub -Topics
1 How to design a change-programme for stakeholders2 How to deliver and guide a change-programme for stakeholders
3 How to guide stakeholders in sensemaking and decision-making
4 Introduce sense-making tools such as context-space mapping
Chapter 10: Day 9: What did we achieve?
Chapter Goal: How to do and use an after-action review
No of pages 12
Sub -Topics
1 Purpose and value of an after-action review
2 Elements of an after-action review
3 How to do and document an after-action review
4 How to derive new change-tasks from an after-action review
Chapter 11: Day 10: How To Review and Learn
Chapter Goal: How to review and learn from our own projects
No of pages 10
Sub -Topics
1 Reprise on how to do and assess an after-action review
2 How to derive our own insights from work done with others
3 How to apply and test those insights for our own architecture-practice
4 How to derive and enact change-tasks for our own continuous-improvement
Appendix 1: The architecture information-stores
Chapter Goal: How to capture, retrieve and reuse architectural information
No of pages 6
Sub -Topics
1 Identify types, roles and uses of architecture-information
2 Identify how and why to store each type of architectural information
3 Identify how to retrieve and reuse each type of architectural information
4 Identify how and when to delete architectural information
Appendix 2: More on context-space mapping
Chapter Goal: Present context-space mapping as a sensemaking tool for architecture
No of pages 18
Sub -Topics
1 Describe purpose and underlying principles for context-space mapping
2 Explore how context-space mapping works as a sensemaking method
3 Provide detailed worked-examples of context-space mapping
4 Show outcomes and value of context-space mapping in sensemaking
Appendix 3: Resources
Chapter Goal: Provide additional support for the practices in this book
No of pages 2
Sub -Topics
1 Example books and other publications
2 Websites and other online resources