Certified Enterprise Architect All-in-One Exam Guide

CHAPTER   7

Disseminating the Enterprise Architecture

When we look at disseminating enterprise architecture information, we need to consider what information we need to disseminate, to whom we need to disseminate it, when we need to disseminate it, and how we are going to disseminate it. All of this is driven by why we need to disseminate this EA information.

Preparing for Dissemination

We can disseminate three states of EA architecture representations: draft views, stable views, and accepted releases. Like software, EA data needs to be version controlled in the draft phase, placed under configuration management when it becomes verified and stable, and released as an integrated set of views after the whole has been accepted as correct, complete, ...