On Theory And Enterprise Architecture
On Theory And Enterprise Architecture
How theory guides architecture practice
About the Book
This anthology from the Tetradian weblog explores notions of theory in enterprise-architecture and the like, from mainstream IT-centric views to whole-enterprise architectures and beyond.
This book includes about 40 posts and 65 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:
- Theory: Patterns - reviews the underlying concepts and definitions for a wide range of architecture concerns and patterns.
- Theory: Technology - assesses how problems in technology and architecture often arise from a poor grasp of underlying theory.
- Theory: Science - considers how we need to use science itself to test the science we use in our architectures and more.
- Theory: Scale - explores how theory itself can break down at different scales, and will need to be adapted to work well in those contexts.
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Table of Contents
- THEORY: INTRODUCTION
- THEORY: PATTERNS
- Principles, values, ends and means
- How useful are principles in enterprise-architecture?
- More on principles and decision-time
- Values, principles and value-trees
- Value-trees in enterprise-architecture
- ‘Bindedness’ in metamodels
- Content, context, connections – and purpose
- Agility needs a backbone
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On layers in enterprise-architecture
- Practical implications for enterprise-architectures
- Summary
- Rethinking the layers in enterprise-architecture
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Assets and Resources
- Resources in Business Model Canvas
- Capability as Resource
- Asset and Resource
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More on EA and asset-types
- Extending assets across the architecture
- Functions
- Locations
- Events
- Capabilities
- Services
- On strategy and design
- Identifier, identity, persona and Mask
- More on identity and Mask
- Efficiency, effectiveness and co-creativity
- It’s not a cycle
- Assets and services
- Interoperability and interresponsibility
- Definition as EA anti-pattern?
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Function, capability and affordance
- Implications for enterprise-architecture practice
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Quality-systems and enterprise-architecture
- Quality of inputs
- Quality of process
- Quality of outputs
- Layering and recursion
- Metrics for qualitative requirements
- Big-data, big-information, big-knowledge
- Rethinking the DIKW hierarchy
- THEORY: TECHNOLOGY
- TOGAF Munich
- Up in the clouds
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Unravelling the anatomy of Archimate
- The anatomy of Archimate
- Rethinking the anatomy of Archimate
- Technology-adoption, Wardley-maps and Bimodal-IT
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Technology-adoption, technology-evolution and lifecycle-management
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
- Technology-adoption and time-horizons
- THEORY: SCIENCE
- The science of enterprise-architecture
- Enterprise-architect - applied-scientist, or alchemist?
- The theory of enterprise-architecture
- Architecture is theory
- Reframing entropy in business
- More on reframing entropy in business
- Hypotheses, method and recursion
- On reflexive methodology
- THEORY: SCALE
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Scalability and uniqueness
- Practical implications for enterprise-architecture
- The craft of knowledge-work, the role of theory and the challenge of scale
- Market as organisation, market as enterprise
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