From theory to practice in enterprise-architecture
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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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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

  • 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?
  • Function, capability and affordance
    • Implications for enterprise-architecture practice
  • 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’?
  • On layers in enterprise-architecture
    • Practical implications for enterprise-architectures
    • Summary
  • Hypotheses, method and recursion
  • 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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