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The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture
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The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture

by Chloë Gray, Martin Sykes, Paul Homan
February 2025
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 35m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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You will always find someone who thinks there is something missing from a diagram, or a different layout that improves the flow. They could be right. But an imperfect diagram (or document) for people to discuss is better than a perfect one that’s too late. We’ve already said you should stop looking for perfect and release when you can get the point across.

It’s the same with a book. We could have kept adding advice and refining it until we hit 500 pages. But there comes a point where we have to say publish and start a conversation. So, just one last piece of advice before we close.

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Imagine enterprise architecture as navigating a ship through rough seas. The ship represents the company’s needs and the captain is the enterprise ...

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