Enterprise Architecture A to Z

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Besides the dos and don’ts that we discussed in Chapter 1, what is needed is a relatively quick

and effective exercise to achieve the following:

◾ Develop and establish a set of organization-specific architectural principles (guidelines) (say,

0.5 staff-years of effort).

◾ Select a framework from the set of available industry-defined frameworks (say, 1.0 staff-years

of effort).

◾ Identify the IT areas that are subject to architectural standardization (this is the partition-

ing/Functional Block discussion alluded to earlier, but it is also driven by the framework

chosen—perhaps a dozen or so areas are identified) (say, 0.5 staff-years of effort).

◾ Identify applicable industry standards (say ...