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T. GravesEveryday Enterprise Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8904-4_1

1. Day 1: Getting Started

Tom Graves1  
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Eaglehawk, VIC, Australia
 
Whatever we do, however we approach it, and whichever part of the organization we work in, all of enterprise-architecture comes down to one single, simple idea:
  • Things work better when they work together, with clarity, with elegance, on purpose.

Enterprise-architects are responsible to the organization to make that happen: the underlying aim of every item of architecture-work in the enterprise is to make things work better for everyone, in a more effective way.

And every item of architecture-work should start ...

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