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)
This document provides a standard approach to federal enterprise architecture (FEA) implementation – principles and standards for how business, information, and technology architectures should be developed across the enterprise so they can be used consistently at various levels of scope within and between domains/departments/divisions, as well as with external stakeholders.
This interoperability framework details the standards, policy and resources needed t enable effective and efficient IT Operations.
This case study discusses the steps taken for service enablement in a business area through market research, developing architecture design patterns, and strategy and roadmap.
This paper discusses the impact of non-functional requirements on software systems. "One of the most important roles for an architect is in the requirements engineering phase; this is how architects help define the solution that best satisfies all stakeholders."
Enterprise Architecture does not fail because of content. It fails because it is not embedded in the organization and its processes.
This paper discusses the shortcomings of existing approaches to enterprise architecture model maintenance, proposes a federated approach, and reports on its implementation at a large financial service provider.
The whitepaper provides a good definition of EA, its role in the organization and the steps to create it.
The Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Practice Guidance describes important  concepts architects can use with stakeholders to deliver value to the business and  improve results in agency mission areas.  The guidance provides overviews of  architecture concepts, descriptions of the content included in architecture work products, and direction on developing and using architecture. 
This white paper provides an overview of enterprise architecture’s role in the enterprise transformation process: common definitions, frameworks and views, the EA linkage to solution architectures and service-oriented architectures, the business value of EA and a summary of implications that EA imposes on successful software development.
