Architecture Essays
How to Practise Enterprise Architecture
The EA method
The advantages of thinking, planning, and systematic work are well known, whether baking a cake or going to Mars. The practice of Enterprise Architecture provides this mature way for an organisation to realise its full potential.
In this article, we'll see what enterprise architecture is, its benefits, and its method. In distilling several decades of experience, I had to balance brevity and completeness. It is a large subject in its scope, timelines, and impact, but it is simple once you grasp the approach, although its object, the enterprises for which it is applied, can be as complex as anything gets. If you need to unpack it more after reading this and connected articles, I'll help you.
(I have written articles on several aspects of the Enterprise Architecture Practice. This article ties them all together into the big picture of the discipline. To keep it digestible, wherever an aspect is covered separately, it is linked rather than elaborated here. You can read it during or after this article.)
What is Enterprise Architecture?
Enterprise Architecture is a systematic way of developing and strengthening an organisation. It has two forms — Business Enterprise Architecture…
