The author developed Lightweight Enterprise Architecture (LEA) to enable a quick alignment of technology to
business strategy. LEA's simple and effective framework makes it useful to a wide audience of users throughout an enterprise, coordinating resources for business requirements and facilitating optimal adoption of technology. Lightweight Enterprise Architectures provides a methodology and philosophy that organizations can easily adopt, resulting in immediate value-add without the pitfalls of traditional architectural styles. This systematic approach uses the right balance of tools and techniques to help an enterprise successfully develop its architecture.
The first section of the text focuses on
how enterprises deploy architecture and how architecture is
an evolving discipline. The second section introduces LEA, detailing a structure that supports architecture and benefits all stakeholders. The book concludes by explaining the approach needed to put the framework into practice, analyzing deployment issues and how the architecture is involved throughout the lifecycle of technology projects and systems.
T his innovative resource tool provides you with a simpler, easily executable architecture, the ability to embrace a complex environment, and a framework to measure and control technology at the enterprise level.
By:
Fenix Theuerkorn Imprint: Auerbach Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 616g ISBN:9780849321146 ISBN 10: 084932114X Pages: 344 Publication Date:25 June 2004 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
STATE OF ARCHITECTURE. Architectural chaos. Architecture in the enterprise. LEA's framework. FRAMEWORK FOR LEA. LEA overview. Strategic architecture. Conceptual architecture. Execution architecture. IMPLEMENTING LEA. Philosophy of LEA. Cycle of LEA. Deploying LEA. Dysfunctional enterprise architectures. APPENDICES. Appendix A LEA artifacts. Appendix B reference materials. Appendix C glossary.
Fenix Theuerkorn (Independent Consultant, Gabriola Island, British Columbia)