The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE?

Enterprise architecture has existed for as long as people have worked together. It has existed since we realised as a civilisation that we needed to organise. Understanding the combination of people, process, data and technology, and how we want to change it, is a simple way to look at enterprise architecture, and that combination is as applicable to early civilisations as it is today.

But we didn’t have a specific name for it until the 1980s.

There are many different definitions of enterprise architecture – we are not going to add to the list. The practical elements of doing enterprise architecture change little with the different definitions. We will focus on the practical work of the enterprise ...