Enterprise Architecture: A Pocket Guide

INTRODUCTION

Enterprise architecture is a key competency for most large organisations of the present day. Its roots reach back some twenty years or more, in early efforts to reuse knowledge about software structure and design to assist in managing a rapid growth in the cost and complexity of IT systems in general. Compliance to a formal enterprise architecture framework is now mandatory in many government and defence contexts, and is increasingly common in other larger organisations.

For most of its history, enterprise architecture has been regarded as belonging under IT governance. At the present time the discipline is evolving once more, and extending its scope to become a literal architecture of the enterprise.

This pocket guide describes ...