This report describes the experience in evaluating and applying viewpoint sets to information systems development – a definition, strengths and weaknesses and general observations about the approach are discussed.
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.
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?
This paper introduces a new approach to enterprise architecture planning called simple iterative partitions whose purpose is to reduce and manage the complexity in the process and its outcome.
This presentation provides an introduction to the Extensible Architecture Framework (xAF) – a generic architecture framework (GAF) that is theoretically solid and practically useful.
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.
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.
This paper provides a brief overview of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and explains how to use Department of Defense Architecture Framework<br />(DoDAF) to describe a SOA.
This paper presents a software architecture design framework and approach based upon five industrial software architecture design methods. It also compares and contrasts this general software architecture design framework with the five industry standard approaches.
The author presents a set of questions that a CIO should ask their enterprise architecture team to make sure that their enterprise architecture is designed to deliver business value.
