Chapter 9

Lean Enterprise Architecture

An Architectural View of IT Value Stream Flow

Charles Betz

Architecture: The fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.*

International Standards Organization

Enterprise architecture (EA) emerges in large information technology (IT) organizations over time as the need for coordination and a systemic vision increases with the size and complexity of IT services. In general, this is the highest-level, most long-range work in establishing the principles and long-horizon objectives of the IT organization in its service to its customers.

Supporting long-term objectives remains ...

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