Chapter 4. Reference Architecture

The architecture of an enterprise can involve hundreds or thousands of processes that play out against the enterprise’s architecture pattern. Documenting each of these processes individually can be a daunting task. However, it is commonplace for many processes to follow similar patterns: The work has a similar structure and this structure is mapped consistently onto the architecture pattern. In such cases these processes can be documented by capturing their common pattern in a reference architecture.

Comparing the architecture of one enterprise against the architecture of another can be similarly complex. The details of individual processes and architecture patterns are frequently different, yet often their structure ...

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