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Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies, like business digitization, cloud computing, and Web 2.0, demand fundamental changes in the enterprises management practices. These changes have a drastic effect not only on IT and business, but also on policies, processes, and people. Many companies therefore embark on enterprise-wide transformation initiatives. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to architect and supervise this transformational journey. Unfortunately, todays EA is often a ponderous and detached exercise, with most of the EA initiatives failing to create visible impact. The enterprises need an EA that is agile and responsive to business dynamics. Collaborative Enterprise Architecture provides the innovative solutions todays enterprises require, informed by real-world experiences and experts insights. This book, in its first part, provides a systematic compendium of the current best practices in EA, analyzes current ways of doing EA, and identifies its constraints and shortcomings. In the second part, it leaves the beaten tracks of EA by introducing Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 concepts to the traditional EA methods. This blended approach to EA focuses on practical aspects, with recommendations derived from real-world experiences. A truly thought provoking and pragmatic guide to manage EA, Collaborative Enterprise Architecture effectively merges the long-term oriented top-down approach with pragmatic bottom-up thinking, and that way offers real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide change.

  • Covers the latest emerging technologies affecting business practice, including digitization, cloud computing, agile software development, and Web 2.0
  • Focuses on the practical implementation of EAM rather than theory, with recommendations based on real-world case studies
  • Addresses changing business demands and practices, including Enterprise 2.0, open source, global sourcing, and more
  • Takes an innovative approach to EAM, merging standard top-down and pragmatic, bottom-up strategies, offering real solutions to businesses undergoing enterprise-wide changes

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Collaborative Enterprise Architecture
Enriching EA with Lean, Agile, and Enterprise 2.0 Practices

Stefan Bente

Dr. Uwe Bombosch

Shailendra Langade

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Copyright

Acquiring Editor: Andrea Dierna

Development Editor: Robyn Day

Project Manager: Jessica Vaughan

Designer: Greg Harris

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Notices

Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods or professional practices, may become necessary. Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information or methods described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bente, Stefan.

Collaborative enterprise architecture : enriching EA with lean, agile, and enterprise 2.0 practices / Stefan Bente, Uwe Bombosch, Shailendra Langade.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-12-415934-1

1. Management information systems. 2. Business enterprisesComputer networks. 3. Information technologyManagement. 4. Software architecture. I. Bombosch, Uwe. II. Langade, Shailendra. III. Title.

HD30.213.B463 2013

658.4038011dc23

2012014682

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978-0-12-415934-1

Printed in the United States of America

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Dedication

To our families (Beate and Thomas; Christiane and Julian; Deepali, Pratik, and Tanishka), with many thanks for their support and patience.

Acknowledgments

Writing a book is a strenuous journey. We are indebted to many people who helped us along the way.

Murali Padmanabhan, at the time coordinating the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) learning and development initiative, established our early contact to Elsevier India. Without his efforts the book idea would never have taken off in the first place.

We are sincerely grateful to the TCS management, in particular to Krishnan Ramanujam and Santosh Mohanty, for their motivation, support, and friendly eye toward the book. Hermann Klein and Ingo Rosenstein, by their kind permission, made it possible for us to work on the book project.

Many thanks go to numerous colleagues at TCS, especially to Harish Iyer, Bernd Linowski, and Ameya Vanjari. They not only listened to our continuous rambles about architecture; they also provided many useful insights in return.

Ravindra Asundi, Beate Beering, Dirk Fiege, Bernd Linowski, and Gero Seifert took the trouble to struggle through 180 pages of the half-finished book to uncover the structural weaknesses, and they kindly and patiently pointed out how we could fix them. We are deeply grateful for the time they invested, and the gentle yet effective feedback they gave.

Bhadresh Vyasa, Sandeep Karkera, and Vinu Jade dedicated their time to the project by allowing us to interview them in depth about their experiences in various aspects of EA. Many thanks for that!

We are indebted to several eminent authors in our field, most notably John Zachman from Zachman International, Jeanne W. Ross from the Center for Information Systems Research at the Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology, and Steve Nunn and Andrew Josey from The Open Group for their kind permission, backed by active support, to reprint some of their intellectual property in this book.

Craig Mullins and Wayne Eckerson reviewed the final manuscript, providing many useful comments and improvement proposals. Our heartfelt thanks also go to the editors at Morgan Kaufmann: Rachel Roumeliotis, Andrea Dierna, and Robyn Day. You all effectively helped us through the tedious exercise of writing and finishing this book on time.

Last but not least, our sincere gratitude goes to our wives. They willingly accepted the sight of husbands brooding over their laptops on weekends. They agreed to family funds flowing into a writing workshop in India instead of into long-deserved family vacations. Furthermore, they actively supported our work in numerous ways, from discussions over proofreading to stepping in when we (again) neglected our household duties in favor of an authors phone conference. Beate, Christiane, and Deepali, we definitely owe you one.

Chapter 1
Why Collaborative Enterprise Architecture?
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Reasons for this book

Enterprise architecture (EA) is often projected as a multipurpose medicine that cures an enterprise of all pains and problems. EA comes in different flavorssometimes a marketing gimmick in management talks, sometimes a means to boast about knowledge of some framework or other, and sometimes an academic research topic. As a consequence, there seems to be a mystical mist surrounding the field of EA. This mist obscures the meaning and purpose of this fieldnot only for the nave observer but also for the mature architect.

In our professional lives, we (the authors of this book) have approached EA from the ground up, coming from the basic levels of IT and software architecture. When EA groups were established in our organizations, we experienced both the benefits and the shortcomings of EA. When eventually taking over enterprise architect roles ourselves, we had our own sets of successes and blunders. Over the years and across different roles in the IT organization, we have become convinced that something as vitally necessary as EA should be organized in a more effective mode. This reorganization should appropriately involve all stakeholders in the decisions, including business users and developers, instead of acting out of an elite inner circle. It should adopt a more incremental mode of working and drop unnecessary bureaucracy in order to become more flexible.

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