Worked-Examples for EA Practice
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Worked-Examples for EA Practice

Decision-making in whole-enterprise architecture

About the Book

This anthology from the Tetradian weblog provides practical, real-world examples of the thinking required to tackle architecture-issues, before diving down into the specific details of implementation.

This book includes roughly thirty-five posts and seventy images from the weblog. These posts are split into two groups:

- Everyday Challenges - outlines typical processes and checks - often in step-by-step form - that are likely to be useful in tackling routine architecture-challenges.

- Problem-Cases - provides worked-examples of architecture-errors that could, will or already have caused disruption or damage, and describes what needs to be done to rectify those mistakes.

About the Author

Tom Graves
Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than four decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australasia and the Americas cover a broad range of industries including small-business, banking, utilities, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in whole-enterprise architectures for non-profit, social, government and commercial enterprises.

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Table of Contents

  • ARCHITECTURE EXAMPLES: INTRODUCTION
  • EVERYDAY CHALLENGES
  • Data-assets and insurance
  • How do regional differences impact EA?
  • Capabilities, reference-models and job-descriptions
  • New economics models – what impact on enterprise architecture?
  • Tools in action
  • RBP-EA: From ‘Really Big Picture’ into real-world practice
    • A bit of background
    • The Really Big Picture
    • Putting this into practice
  • From business-model to enterprise-architecture
    • Step 1: Develop a business-model
    • Step 2: Re-map the overall business-model as related services
    • Step 3: Expand the detail of the overall business-model
    • Step 4: Expand the Key Activities to Archimate ‘Application’ detail
    • Step 5: Expand the Key Resources to Archimate ‘Infrastructure’ detail
    • Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines to review the business-model
  • Business Model Canvas to Archimate (the short version)
    • Step 1: Start with a business-model on Business Model Canvas
    • Step 2: Separate out the players on the business-model
    • Step 3: Expand the detail for the interfaces of the business-model
    • Step 4: Expand the Key Activities
    • Step 5: Expand the Key Resources
    • Step 6: Apply enterprise-architecture disciplines as required
  • Upwards and sideways from business-model (short version)
    • Investors and beneficiaries
    • Guidance – direction-services
    • Guidance – coordination-services
    • Guidance – validation-services
  • Upwards and sideways from business-model
    • Investors and beneficiaries
    • Guidance – an overview
    • Guidance – direction-services
    • Guidance – coordination-services
    • Guidance – validation-services
  • Enterprise Canvas as service-viability checklist
    • As-is, to-be and gap-analysis
    • A note on layers
    • The service itself
    • Nature of service
    • Service-provision
    • Consuming other services
    • Guidance service-relationships
    • Guidance – direction
    • Guidance – coordination
    • Guidance – validation
    • Investors and beneficiaries
    • Iteration and recursion
    • It’s all about story
  • Enterprise, organisation and the Olympics
    • Olympics as organisation
    • Olympics as market
    • Olympics as enterprise
    • Implications for enterprise-architecture
  • Enterprise-architecture and organisational health
  • Costs of acquisition, retention, de-acquisition
    • Practical implications for enterprise-architecture
  • Healthcare and information-flow
  • Three EA gigs in Mexico
  • Governance is not an end in itself
  • Enterprise Canvas for government regulator
  • On mass-uniqueness
  • On modelling ‘self-service’ with Archimate
  • Building effectiveness in a small business
  • Things I learned while doing 24/7 eldercare
  • Anthropomorphise your applications?
  • Enterprise-architecture and the Cloud
  • PROBLEM-CASES
  • The cyclist-shopper’s tale
  • What happens when kurtosis-risk eventuates
  • The stench of systemic decay
  • Glitch…
  • Where is the information when we need it?
  • Financial-architecture and enterprise-architecture
  • “Please don’t touch the touchscreen”
  • CoIT: another architectural disaster unfolds?

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