Chapter 1: Why Any Business Needs Enterprise Architecture Chapter Goal: Explain what EA is and why it's important to any business. Introducing various EA frameworks and showing the relevancy of these frameworks. No of pages 35 Sub -Topics 1. Introduction to Enterprise Architecture 2. The benefits of EA 3. Using Zachman and TOGAF 4. Starting with architecture vision from the business 5. Collecting business requirements 6.
Change management is key Chapter 2: The Transformation to Modern EA Chapter Goal: Describing how EA (and the role of the enterprise architect) is changing due to new business goals. No of pages : 30 Sub - Topics 1. Modern Enterprise Architecture 2. Learning from IT4IT 3. Using modern EA techniques and tools 4. Defining a target architecture and operating model 5. Applying best practices from EA Chapter 3: The Real World of Digital Transformation Chapter Goal: How do earth-born (traditional) companies start the journey to modern companies using scalable cloud-native technology, agile frameworks and DevSecOps? What are the modern business challenges and how can EA address these. No of pages : 30 Sub - Topics: 1.
The challenge of the earth-born enterprise 2. Starting the journey: earth-born migrants 3. Guiding the transformation from EA 4. Application Portfolio Management 5. Controlling risks Chapter 4: Creating the Floating Architecture Chapter Goal: Integrating new practices in EA: agile, scrum, DevSecOps. No of pages : 30 Sub - Topics: 1. Becoming agile by leveraging the power of small 2. Including DevOps principles in architecture 3.
Security is intrinsic in EA 4. Change management in floating architecture 5. Putting it all together in the architectural vision 1. Best practices from real cases: what defines success? Chapter 5: Scaling the Business with EA Chapter Goal: 1. Setting strategic objectives in EA 2. Why businesses need to be scalable 3. Enabling development speed 4. Identifying stakeholders in modern EA 5.
Scaling the organization 6. Scaling the business Chapter 6: The Changing Role of the Enterprise Architect Chapter Goal: 1. The role of the architect in frameworks 2. From architect to servant leader 3. Creating an architecture culture and engineering excellence in the enterprise 4. The future of architecture and the architect 5. Training new talents - we need you (conclusion).