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Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises
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Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises

by Roger Sessions
May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
5h 43m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 1. Enterprise Architecture Today

This book is about how to do enterprise architecture better. This immediately brings up the question, better than what? Better than we do things today. I will address issues that I think are important that are not addressed by today’s methodologies. The most important of these issues is, of course, complexity.

But before I can discuss how I think things need to be improved, you need to understand the current state of the art. What are the methodologies that I think need improvements? How do these methodologies address complexity, if at all?

Most enterprise architects have some experience with one of these methodologies, but few enterprise architects have a broad perspective on the field. In this chapter, ...

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