Enterprise IT architecture made practical--finally!
There's only one way to maximize legacy infrastructure while integrating new partners, technologies, applications, and data streams: begin with a coherent enterprise architecture. But most approaches to enterprise architecture have been far too complex and theoretical--until now. IT Architecture Toolkit is a breakthrough: a practical, simple, rapid, and complete approach to delivering on the promise of enterprise architecture.
Jane Carbone's approach has been proven in mid-market and Fortune 500 enterprises alike. Step by step, Carbone shows how to integrate business, architecture, implementation, and all key outputs: for data, applications, technology, and people. Whether you're an IT leader, architect, planner, or analyst, you'll learn how to:
- Create strong, auditable links with business drivers
- Model your architecture simply, easily, and quickly
- Translate your models to real, manageable projects.
- Define the value proposition for architecture and establish
realistic metrics
- Achieve buy-in throughout your organization
- Manage the "soft" aspects of your architecture initiative,
including processes, roles, responsibilities, and organizational
structure
Carbone provides a "soup to nuts" collection of methods and examples. Using her exercises, you'll construct a complete draft architecture for your own business: one that will handle change, opportunity, growth, mergers, downsizing . . . whatever comes your way.
- Connecting Architecture to the Business.
- Analyzing the Business Current State.
- Constructing the Business Target State.
- Analyzing the Target State-Identifying Gaps and
Opportunities.
- Principles.
- Architecture Models.
- Inventory.
- Standards.
- Projects.
- Establishing Metrics.
- Presenting the Plan for Buy-in.
- Compliance and Other Key Processes.
- People.
- Sample Architecture Principles.
- Example Architecture Strategies.
- Example Target Application Architecture Patterns.
- Estimating IT Work Effort for Projects.
- Sample Current Architecture Cost Data Collection.
- Sample Job Descriptions.
- Enterprise Architecture Toolkit: 3-Day Workshop.
- Conducting Enterprise Architecture Assessment: 2-Day
Workshop.
Index.
Jane Carbone is a co-founder of and partner at infomajic. She has over 25 years of experience in information technology working with network provisioning, finance, regulatory, customer sales and service, billing, and financial and credit applications. Ms. Carbone has developed and used the infomajic enterprise information architecture methodology to conduct and develop architecture assessments, enterprise and data architectures, IT strategies, data models, organization designs, and implementation project plans for financial services companies, IT HR and telecomm firms, and the public library.