Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture

Chapter 4. Embedded and Accessible

Chapter 2 shared that the second key strategic objective for an effective enterprise architecture strategy is to make architecture information embedded and accessible to all practitioners of architecture and their partners. It’s important to be deliberate and thoughtful on what architecture information needs to exist, and how to make it easy for end users to understand and use it.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed with the amount of information that you’re expected to consume and act on in a single day? Between emails, messaging applications, and websites, just a few ways that you see digital information on a daily basis, it is difficult to know what information to retain and when to use it. Do this, do that, know this, look up that, remember to tell that person something…the digital age of information is relentless.

Thus, when it comes to enabling great architecture decisions, it is necessary to be very deliberate in figuring out how to make architecture information available to all those involved in making an architecture decision. Solving this problem brings best practices together from knowledge management and user interface (UI)/user experience (UX) design.

This chapter reviews these concepts and also dives into common mechanisms, principles, and a framework that you can use to define key results (KRs) for the objective of making architecture information embedded and accessible.

Knowledge Management in Embedded and Accessible Architecture ...