From theory to practice in enterprise-architecture
From theory to practice in enterprise-architecture
Connecting ideas to solve practical challenges
About the Book
"Theory informs practice; practice reinforms theory". This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores how theory and practice support each other, in the transition from initial plan to real-world implementation of an architecture.
This book includes about 35 posts and 45 images from the weblog. These posts are split into two groups:
- *From Theory* - outlines some essential theory and guiding-principles for working on enterprise-architectures and more.
- *To Practice* - provides practical guidance on common issues that can arise during development for various types of architecture.
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Table of Contents
- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: INTRODUCTION
- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: THEORY
- Requirements vs constraints
- EA and innovation
- Assets and enterprise-architecture
- More on assets and enterprise architecture
- TOGAF and SDLC
- TOGAF and SOA
- Which complexity?
- Enterprise-architecture as vectors
- Vision, strategy, plans and tactics
- A structure for enterprise-vision
- Architecture is non-functional
- Non-functional elements in enterprise-architecture
- Form follows non-function
- The organization of the Organization
- On business-rules
- Models as decision-records (Enterprise Canvas)
- FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: PRACTICE
- Agility needs a backbone
- Architecting the enterprise backbone
- Migrating from edge to backbone
- More on backbone and edge
- Strategy, tactics, operations and emotion
- Structure, process and purpose
- Enterprise Debt and the Shirky Principle
- For or against?
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Function, capability and affordance
- Implications for enterprise-architecture practice
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Every organisation is ‘for-profit’
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
- SCAN as ‘decision-dartboard’
- What’s the size of an enterprise?
- Can complex-systems be ‘architected’?
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On layers in enterprise-architecture
- Practical implications for enterprise-architectures
- Summary
- Hypotheses, method and recursion
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Learning and the limits of automation
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
- Evidence-based architecture?
- Applications, work-instructions and business-continuity
- Three kinds of chaos
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