Wagter / van den Berg / Luijpers Dynamic Enterprise Architecture

How to Make It Work
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-71651-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

This book presents an approach to enterprise architecture, which enables corporations to achieve their business objectives faster. Focusing on the governance of IT in the organization, it provides tangible tools, advice and strategies for implementing and designing the architectural process within a corporation that will make a major contribution in driving the business forward and achieve its goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagter, Roel

van den Berg, Martin

Luijpers, Joost

van Steenbergen, Marlies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Introduction.
Target Audience.
The Structure of This Book.
Chapter 1: Agility and Coherence: A Conflict ofInterests?
Potential of Information Technology.
Using IT: A Problem in the Making?
Agility and Coherence.
Increasing Tension.
The Challenge.
Chapter 2: Agility and Coherence ConsideredSeparately.
Different Answers to Different Questions.
Increasing Agility: New Development Methods.
Increasing Coherence: Architectural Awareness.
One Answer to Both Questions: Dynamic Architecture.
Chapter 3: Dynamic Architecture.
Wanted: Agile Architecture.
Architecture: A Multifaceted Concept.
Dynamic Architecture: Architecture Aimed at Agility.
Enabling Change.
Quickly Achieving Business Objectives: DYA.
Chapter 4: The DYA Model.
Making It Work.
Ten Principles of DYA.
DYA: A Theoretical and Working Model.
The Model and the Principles.
How to Use the Model.
Filling in the Model.
Chapter 5: Strategic Dialogue.
Crisis at WWW-TeleBel.
Strategic Dialogue: Doing the Right Things.
Determining Business Cases.
Elaborating Business Cases.
Strategic Dialogue: Coherence and Agility.
Intermezzo: The Business Case for WWW-TeleBel.
Chapter 6: Architectural Services.
Architectural Ups and Downs at TeleBel.
Architectural Services: Doing Things Properly.
Maintaining an Overview with the Architectural Framework.
Architectural Services Supports the Strategic Dialogue.
Architectural Services Supports the Development.
Architectural Team.
Architectural Services: Coherence and Agility.
Intermezzo: WWW-TeleBelâ??s Project-Start Architecture.
Chapter 7: Development with(out) Architecture.
WWW-TeleBel One Year Later.
Development with(out) Architecture: Doing the Right Things theRight Way.
Three Development Strategies.
Anticipative Strategy.
Offensive Strategy and Defensive Strategy.
Project Team.
Maintenance with(out) Architecture.
Development with(out) Architecture: Coherence and Agility.
Intermezzo I: A Building Permit for WWW-TeleBel.
Intermezzo II: A Management Letter for WWW-TeleBel.
Chapter 8: Governance.
Deadlock for TeleBel.
Successful Processes Do Not Just Happen.
Responsibilities and Authorities.
Coordination of Developments.
Monitoring.
Processes Also Require Maintenance.
Governance: Coherence and Agility.
Intermezzo: Embedding Dynamic Architecture at TeleBel.
Conclusion.
Appendices.
Appendix A: Technique for Interactive Process Design.
Appendix B: Information Economics.
Appendix C: Architecture Maturity Model and DynamicArchitecture.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

ROEL WAGTER is Chairman of R. Wagter Business and ICT ArchitectureB.V. and has more than thirty years of experience in theinformation technology field. He has held numerous managerialpositions in which he gained experience in the alignment betweenbusiness and IT. These experiences are the foundation for his ideason enterprise architecture.
MARTIN van den BERG is Chairman of the architecture section ofthe Dutch Society of IT Professionals, and an enterprise architectand service line manager with Sogeti Nederland B.V. He advises andtrains companies in applying enterprise and IT architectures. Inaddition, he develops services to support organizations to improvethe way they work with enterprise and IT architecture.
JOOST LUIJPERS is an information architect with Sogeti NederlandB.V. Prior to joining Sogeti, he was a professor of informationengineering.
MARLIES van STEENBERGEN has more than ten years of experience asan enterprise architect. She now works for Sogeti Nederland B.V. asan advisor and coach in the field of enterprise architecture, andchairs Sogeti's Architectural Competence Network.