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Enterprise Architecture Best Practices Collection – Page 2

EA Implementation Lessons Learned

This presentation provides the results and challenges overcome in implementing enterprise architecture in a massive organization. These insights can provide invaluable guidance to the CIO who is about to implement enterprise architecture – what to expect, what to avoid, what to overcome, and what results to expect. Great advice.

Enterprise Architecture in Practice

What does an enterprise architect do for a living? What activities do/should they perform? When? How? Why – how does enterprise architecture create business value? This ebook focuses on answering these seemingly simple but often overlooked foundational questions related to enterprise architecture. Excellent Read! (150 pages)

5 Best Practices for Enterprise Architecture

This article argues for a simple approach to enterprise architecture planning because complexity is a value destroyer. So, the author makes the case for minimalism in enterprise architecture planning and suggests best practices to get maximum business value from EA.

Using Architecture Perspectives

This paper reviews the idea of the architectural perspective and relates a specific experience of applying them to the architectural definition of an enterprise integration project for a financial markets organization, explaining the strengths and weaknesses we found in the approach.

Increasing Stakeholder Confidence in IT Architecture

This presentation discusses a key issue with enterprise architecture – getting stakeholders’ "buy-in." How to identify key stakeholders? How to engage them? How to increase their confidence in the enterprise architecture process and outcomes?

Managing Complexity in Enterprise Architecture (Part II)

Part I introduced the Simple Iterative Partitions approach to enterprise architecture planning. This paper dives deeper into the mathematical model supporting the SIP approach and discusses ways to test enterprise architecture against this model.

Managing Complexity in Enterprise Architecture (Part III)

Part I introduced the Simple Iterative Partitions approach to enterprise architecture planning and Part II detailed its application. This paper discusses implementation considerations when using the SIP approach and the implications of introducing this concept in the organization.

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