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Realize Enterprise Architecture with AWS and SAFe

By : Rajnish Harjika
Book Image

Realize Enterprise Architecture with AWS and SAFe

By: Rajnish Harjika

Overview of this book

Agile implementation of enterprise architecture (EA) in the cloud is a powerful organizational tool, but it is challenging, particularly for architects who are used to on-premises environments. This in-depth guide will tell you all you need to know to reap the benefits of applying EA in your organization to achieve operational efficiency. Starting with an overview of the foundations of enterprise architecture, you'll see how it can be applied to AWS as well as explore the frameworks AWS provides for EA, such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework. That's not all – the book shows you how these frameworks align with The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) architecture development method (ADM) and the Zachman Framework so that you can choose the right fit for your organization. As you advance, you'll learn how to apply SAFe to make your organization agile as well as efficient. Once you've gotten to grips with the theory, you can explore use cases and take a quiz at the end of the book to test yourself and see how EA is applied in practice. By the end of this enterprise architecture book, you'll have the skills and knowledge required to apply EA in the cloud with AWS and drive your organization to become super-efficient and agile.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Enterprise Architecture Foundation and Implementation
5
Part 2 – Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
9
Part 3 – SAFe in EA and the Cloud
12
Part 4 – Setting Up an EA

Summary

Market trends and technology are constantly changing, and organizations that don’t evolve with them struggle to stay relevant. Paying close attention to the customer’s behavior and understanding how they approach innovation and technology can offer a lot of insight into upcoming trends. Enterprise architects are the specialists who look into these elements and come up with innovative strategies. They anticipate and predict the changes that might happen in the market based on a variety of factors, and they help organizations to better equip themselves to deal with them.

In the process of this analysis, data evaluation, and strategic operational planning, enterprise architects often come across many challenges. Sometimes, management is not as involved as they could or should be, teams are not well structured, or tasks are not appropriately allocated. In the wake of these challenges, communication and collaboration among different groups can fail.

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