Masterclass Enterprise Architecture Management

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Jung, Bardo Fraunholz

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook provides a hands-on introduction to enterprise architecture management. It guides the reader through the applications of methods and tools to typical business problems by presenting enterprise architecture frameworks and by sharing experiences from industry.

The structure of the book represents the typical stages of the journey of an enterprise architect. Chapter 1 addresses the central question of what to achieve with the introduction of an enterprise architecture. Chapter 2 then introduces concepts and visualizations for business architecture that help with understanding the business. In chapter 3 the development of an application architecture is outlined, which provides transparency on information systems and their business context. Next, chapter 4 presents visual tools to analyze, improve and eventually optimize the application landscape. Chapter 5 discusses both traditional organizational as well as collaborative approaches to enterprise architecture management. Eventually, several established enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF, Zachmann, ArchiMate, and IAF are described in chapter 6. The book concludes with a summary and an outlook on future research potential in chapter 7.

Based on their experiences through several years of teaching, the authors introduce students step-by-step to enterprise architecture development and management. Their book is intended as a guide for master classes at universities and includes lots of exercises and references for further reading. 

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Acronyms
1 Introduction
1.1 Motivation
1.1.1 Enterprise Architecture and Town Planning
1.1.2 Examples
1.2 Purpose of Enterprise Architecture
1.2.1 Text Book View
1.2.2 Practictioners' Perspective
1.2.3 Relevance of purpose
1.3 Enterprise Architecture and Visualisation
1.3.1 Three Schools
1.3.2 Definition of Enterprise Architecture
1.3.3 Example Visualisations for Enterprise Architecture
1.4 Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
1.4.1 Definition of EAM
1.4.2 Roadmaps for Visualising Transformations
1.4.3 EAM and Related Disciplines
1.4.4 Architectural Layers
1.5 Further Reading
1.6 Summary
1.7 Exercises
References
2 Understanding Business Architecture
2.1 Business Process
2.1.1 Business Process Maps
2.1.2 End-to-End Business Process
2.1.3 Business Processes and EAM
2.2 Business Capabilities
2.3 Business Objects
2.4 Business Architecture Concepts
2.5 Further Reading
2.6 Summary
2.7 Exercises
References
3 Developing Application Architecture
3.1 Application Architecture
3.2 Deriving the Application Landscape from Capabilities
3.2.1 Method Overview
3.2.2 Standardisation
3.2.3 Make-or-Buy
3.2.4 Clustering
3.2.5 Resulting Application Landscape
3.3 Application Details
3.3.1 Relationships
3.3.2 Properties
3.3.3 Further Application Concepts
3.4 Data Architecture
3.5 Further Reading
3.6 Summary
3.7 Exercises
References
4 Analysing Enterprise Architecture
4.1 Objectives of Enterprise Architecture Analysis
4.2 Enterprise Architecture Visualisation
4.2.1 Types of Maps
4.2.2 Example Maps
4.2.3 Software Cartography
4.3 Business Support
4.3.1 Business Support Matrix
4.3.2 Analysis Using the Business Support Matrix
4.3.3 Implications from the Business Support Matrix
4.3.4 Dimensions in Business Support
4.3.5 Summary of Business Support Matrix
4.4 Further Reading
4.5 Summary
4.6 Exercises
References
5 Managing Enterprise Architecture
5.1 Managing Changes
5.1.1 Example Change
5.1.2 Managing Enterprise Architecture Changes
5.1.3 Managed Evolution
5.1.4 Application Roadmap
5.2 Enterprise Architect Role and Organisation
5.2.1 Enterprise Architect Role
5.2.2 Enterprise Architecture Organisation
5.3 Collaborative Enterprise Architecture
5.3.1 Enterprise Architecture Service Centre
5.3.2 Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture
5.3.3 EAM 2.0
5.4 Further Reading
5.5 Summary
5.6 Exercises
References
6 Applying Frameworks
6.1 Frameworks Overview
6.1.1 Zachman Framework
6.1.2 Integrated Architecture Framework (IAF)
6.1.3 ArchiMate
6.1.4 Historical Overview
6.2 EA Frameworks
6.3 TOGAF
6.3.1 Structure and Concepts
Business Architecture
Information Systems Architecture
Technology Architecture
Further Views
6.3.2 Method for Applying Enterprise Architecture
6.3.3 Complementary Standards by The Open Group
6.4 The Framework Provided by This Book
6.4.1 Structure
6.4.2 Meta-model
6.4.3 Procedure
6.4.4 Organisation
6.4.5 Tools
6.4.6 Best Practices
6.5 Further Reading
6.6 Summary
6.7 Exercises
References
7 Summary and Outlook
7.1 Summary
7.2 Topics for Future Research
7.3 Digital Transformation
References
Index