Description
Book SynopsisDiscover what needs to happen in enterprise-architecture practice-and not just its outcomes, but also the activities from which those outcomes would arise. This book reveals how business and enterprise architects can deliver fast solutions to an always-on-the-go business world.
To begin, you''ll review a new technique called context-space mapping, which provides a structured method for sense-making across the entire context of an enterprise. Throughout the book, you''ll concentrate on the routine practices that underpin each of the architecture disciplines.
Working step-by-step through a real 10-day architecture project, this book explores the activities that underpin the strategy, structures and solutions in the real-time turmoil of an enterprise architect''s everyday work. You''ll explore how and why and when the various documents, artefacts and items of ''theory-stuff'' come into the practice - all those mainstream methods, framework
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter Goal: Describe the purpose of the book, how to use it, and what the various elements are
No of pages 4
Sub -Topics
1. Main project: How to use architecture ideas and activities to describe what actually happens in a real enterprise-architecture project, and the business-reasons and business-value for each of those activities
2. Secondary project: Worked-example
3. Application: How to adapt each chapter’s content to our own work
Chapter 2: Day 1: Get Started
Chapter Goal: Show how to get started on a project, and summarise how the allocated ten days will be used
No of pages 16
Sub -Topics
1 Do an initial assessment
2 Show how to use the project-diary and other tools
3 Show how to do an initial assessment
4 Show how to apply any ‘lessons-learned’ in our own projects
Chapter 3: Day 2: Purpose, scope and context
Chapter Goal: Set up and start the main and secondary projects
No of pages: 16
Sub - Topics
1 Introduce the main project as exploring ‘the architecture of architecture’
2 Show how to use the step-by-step action-task sequence
3 Introduce the secondary project: customer-breakdown at a bank
4 Show how to use the same step-by-step-step sequence for the bank content
Chapter 4: Day 3: What’s going on?
Chapter Goal: Learn how to do an architecture-assessment
No of pages : 18
Sub - Topics:
1 Explore how to do a ‘to-be’ (futures) assessment
2 Explore how to do an ‘as-was’ (past) assessment
3 Explore how to identify issues that need to be addressed
4 Learn how to cope with the challenges and stresses of the work
Chapter 5: Day 4: What do we want?
Chapter Goal: Learn how to establish a baseline
No of pages: 12
Sub - Topics:
1 Explore how to do an ‘as-is’ (present) assessment
2 How to do social-enquiry with stakeholders
3 How to tackle the politics of architecture
4 Architecture as decision-support for stakeholders, not decision-making
Chapter 6: Day 5: What’s the difference?
Chapter Goal: How to identify gaps where change is needed
No of pages 14
Sub -Topics
1 Identify and build the skillsets needed for comparison-assessments
2 How to do comparisons to identify gaps (including hidden-gaps)
3 How to prioritise gaps and derive requirements
4 How and why to avoid the temptation to rush to ‘solutions’
Chapter 7: Day 6: How do we get from here to there?
Chapter Goal: Guiding the transition to solution-design
No of pages 10
Sub -Topics
1 How to identify the roles and specialisms needed for solution-design
2 How to identify, work with and hand over to the change-team
3 How to refine and simplify change-requirements
4 Politics reminder: architecture is decision-support, not decision-making
Chapter 8:
Day 7: Step-by-step details Chapter Goal: Learn the relative roles and relations between architecture and design
No of pages 12
Sub -Topics
1 Role of architect as generalist, to connect specialists together
2 How to develop and use sense-making skills
3 Role of architect to assist in finding missing-detail
4 How to identify common missing-detail (system-failure, timescale, decommission)
Chapter 9: Day 8: Putting it into practice
Chapter Goal: What to do when the stakeholders themselves are the solutions
No of pages 14
Sub -Topics
1 How to design a change-programme for stakeholders
2 How to deliver and guide a change-programme for stakeholders
3 How to guide stakeholders in sensemaking and decision-making
4 Introduce sense-making tools such as context-space mapping
Chapter 10: Day 9: What did we achieve?
Chapter Goal: How to do and use an after-action review
No of pages 12
Sub -Topics
1 Purpose and value of an after-action review
2 Elements of an after-action review
3 How to do and document an after-action review
4 How to derive new change-tasks from an after-action review
Chapter 11: Day 10: How To Review and Learn
Chapter Goal: How to review and learn from our own projects
No of pages 10
Sub -Topics
1 Reprise on how to do and assess an after-action review
2 How to derive our own insights from work done with others
3 How to apply and test those insights for our own architecture-practice
4 How to derive and enact change-tasks for our own continuous-improvement
Appendix 1: The architecture information-stores
Chapter Goal: How to capture, retrieve and reuse architectural information
No of pages 6
Sub -Topics
1 Identify types, roles and uses of architecture-information
2 Identify how and why to store each type of architectural information
3 Identify how to retrieve and reuse each type of architectural information
4 Identify how and when to delete architectural information
Appendix 2: More on context-space mapping
Chapter Goal: Present context-space mapping as a sensemaking tool for architecture
No of pages 18
Sub -Topics
1 Describe purpose and underlying principles for context-space mapping
2 Explore how context-space mapping works as a sensemaking method
3 Provide detailed worked-examples of context-space mapping
4 Show outcomes and value of context-space mapping in sensemaking
Appendix 3:
Resources Chapter Goal: Provide additional support for the practices in this book
No of pages 2
Sub -Topics
1 Example books and other publications
2 Websites and other online resources
