Silos – next EA mini-book

I’m plodding away on my next ‘mini-book’ on real enterprise-architecture, with a working-title of Bridging the Silos: enterprise-architecture for IT-architects. Currently on the third chapter, of nineteen planned – which is further on than it sounds, ‘cos much of the later material I already have available in slightly different forms, hence a re-write rather than a full write-from-scratch.

Aim had originally been to get it out before the end of November, but it’s likely there’ll be too much clash with NaNoWriMo and the chapter for the itSMF ‘Best Practices’ yearbook: end of December is looking more realistic, especially if I’m to get it ready in print form in time for the TOGAF San Francisco conference in late January.  Watch this space?

For what it’s worth, the full current table of contents follows after the ‘More’ link:

Bridging the silos
Enterprise-architecture for IT-architects

(c) Tom Graves 2007

AN INTRODUCTION
An architecture for the enterprise
– The bad news
– The good news
What’s in this book?

WHAT IS ENTERPRISE-ARCHITECTURE?
Defining the enterprise
Defining the architecture
The role of enterprise-architecture
– A scary story
– An even scarier story
– Rebuilding a sense of perspective

IT-ARCHITECTURE AND ENTERPRISE-ARCHITECTURE
Broadening the scope
Coping with complexity
Services – organisation as organism
Architecture on purpose

BUSINESS-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE
Top-down drivers
Bottom-up drivers
Horizontal drivers
Sideways-out drivers

THREE STRANDS OF ARCHITECTURE
Governance
Framework
Methodology

GOVERNANCE – AN OVERVIEW
Architecture and the enterprise
Governance drivers
Governance in the multi-partner enterprise

GOVERNANCE – ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Roles and responsibilities – an overview
Identifying the stakeholders
RACI, CRUD and other matters
Partitioning the responsibilities

GOVERNANCE – PRODUCTS
Documents and other ‘products’ – an overview
Guidance products
Management products
Reference products
Reports and dashboards

FRAMEWORK – AN OVERVIEW
Taxonomy, ontology and other tortuous terms
Entities, properties and relationships
Primitives versus composites

FRAMEWORK – MODELS
Models – an overview
Models and their entities
Models and relationships
Models and metadata
Models, views and viewpoints

FRAMEWORK – LAYERS
Layers – an overview
Row 0 – universals
Row 1 – context
Row 2 – strategy
Row 3 – concept
Row 4 – solution
Row 5 – implementation
Row 6 – operations

FRAMEWORK – PRIMITIVES
Primitives – an overview
Assets – ‘what?’
Functions – ‘how?’
Locations – ‘where?’
Capabilities – ‘who?’
Events – ‘when?’
Decisions – ‘why?’

FRAMEWORK – COMPOSITES
Composites – an overview
Root-composites
Some example root-composites
Complex composites
Some example complex-composites
Composites and ‘completeness’

FRAMEWORK – INTEGRATION
Integration – an overview
Integration – organisation as organism
Integration – viable services
Integration – boundary effects

METHODOLOGY – AN OVERVIEW
Methodology and governance
Projects, programmes, portfolios and business transformation
The architecture cycle
The products of methodology
Dynamic architecture

METHODOLOGY – PREPARATION
Preparation – an overview
Phase P – preliminaries
Reviewing preparation

METHODOLOGY – ASSESSMENT
Assessment phases – an overview
Phase A – cycle scope
Phase B – assess current context
Phase C – assess futures context
Phase D – derive change-requirements

METHODOLOGY – SOLUTIONS
Solutions phases – an overview
Phase E – design solutions
Phase F – plan migration
Phase G – guide implementation
Phase H – review lessons-learned

ARCHITECTURE IN PRACTICE
Putting it into practice
Some lessons learned

WRAPPING IT UP
Completing the book
Glossary