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Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

By : Mudar Bahri, Joe Williams
Book Image

Practical Model-Driven Enterprise Architecture

By: Mudar Bahri, Joe Williams

Overview of this book

Most organizations face challenges in defining and achieving evolved enterprise architecture practices, which can be a very lengthy process even if implemented correctly. Developers, for example, can build better solutions only if they receive the necessary design information from architects, and decision-makers can make appropriate changes within the organization only if they know the implications of doing so. The book starts by addressing the problems faced by enterprise architecture practitioners and provides solutions based on an agile approach to enterprise architecture, using ArchiMate® 3.1 as an industry standard and Sparx EA as the modeling tool. You'll learn with the help of a fictional organization that has three business units, each expecting something different from you as the enterprise architect. You'll build the practice, satisfy the different requirements of each business unit, and share the knowledge with others so they can follow your steps. Toward the end, you'll learn how to put the diagrams and the content that you have developed into documents, presentations, and web pages that can be published and shared with any stakeholder. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build a functional enterprise architecture practice that supports every part of your organization. You'll also have developed the necessary skills to populate your enterprise architecture repository with references and artifacts.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect
4
Section 2: Building the Enterprise Architecture Repository
12
Section 3: Managing the Repository

Chapter 10: Operating the EA Repository

Someone once said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Once you begin producing and publishing models based on detailed, complete, and consistent information about your organization's enterprise, there is little doubt others will want to do the same. This is an ideal situation. Having a common and consistent understanding of the composition and state of your enterprise is the basis for making sound decisions regarding it. It is what brings trust to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. Indeed, you should encourage reusing the information in your repository whenever possible.

Sharing a repository, however, presents another set of challenges. For anyone who has worked within or managed a development environment or any other shared resource, these challenges may seem familiar. Managing or operating an EA as a shared resource is the subject of this chapter. In this chapter, we will review three topics related to operating...