(PDF) The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment Kindle

(PDF) The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern
Approach to Business and IT Alignment Kindle

(PDF) The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to
Business and IT Alignment Kindle
Description :
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a set of descriptions relevant to both business
and IT intended to bridge the communication gap between business and IT
stakeholders in organizations, facilitate information systems planning and
improve business and IT alignment. Due to complex historical reasons, the
notion of enterprise architecture was always surrounded by endless
speculations, dangerous myths, non-existing best practices, unfulfilled
promises, expensive failures and grave disappointments. Traditionally the
entire discourse around enterprise architecture was dominated by shallow
advice and faddish approaches (e.g. well-known EA frameworks) infinitely
distant from the practical realities, but nonetheless aggressively promoted by
commercially motivated consultancies and gurus. At the same time, realistic
and trustworthy information on enterprise architecture is still incredibly hard to
find in any available sources.Based on an extensive study of the actual
industry best practices and existing EA literature, this book provides a unique,
systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice
integrated into a consistent logical picture. In particular, this book offers clear,
research-based, conceptually sound and practically actionable answers to the
key questions related to enterprise architecture:What is the meaning of
enterprise architecture and an EA practice?What processes constitute
established EA practices and how do they work?What EA artifacts are used in
successful EA practices and how?What is the best way to structure
architecture roles and functions?What software tools and modeling languages
are necessary for enterprise architecture?How to initiate an EA practice in
organizations from scratch and evolve it?Where do current EA best practices
originate from?This book is organized in a highly structured, sequential
manner and does not require any prior knowledge of enterprise architecture.
The book is intended for a broad audience of people interested in enterprise
architecture including practicing and aspiring architects, architecture
managers, academic EA researchers, EA lecturers and students in
universities.