New EA Book, “Coherency Management”, is Now Available

“Coherency Management – Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance” is a new EA book from co-editors Gary Doucet, John Goetz, Palla Saha and Scott Bernard.    It includes a chapter, contributed by Larry DeBoever, George Paras and Tim Westbrock at EAdirections, entitled “A Pragmatic Approach to Enlisting the Support of CEOs for Enterprise Architecture”.  This chapter covers everything from assessing a leadership team’s attitides and perspectives, to executive messaging, alignment approaches. and specific recommendations on how to engage the CEO and other executive leaders.

With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances – from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell.  One key message is that  EA must be viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to building better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to building better systems.

It is available directly from the publisher, AuthorHouse, or from your favorite bookseller.

 

A new EA book containing a contribution by EAdirections

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EA Book – Coherency Management

Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance - Editors: Gary Doucet, John Gotze, Pallab Saha, and Scott Bernard. The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise’s architecture. 

Look for our chapter on Enterprise Architecture for Chief Executive Officers.

Availability is scheduled for July, 2009.  See our News page for up to date information.

EA Book – The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture

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The SIM Guide to Enterprise Architecture  – Edited by: Leon A. Kappelman. This book is a project of the Society for Information Management’s Enterprise Architecture Working Group.  EAdirections has been a member of this important group since its inception.  The book reflects the research, analysis and thought leadership of a rich and diverse set of contributors. 

Look for the EAdirections chapter on A Pragmatic Approach to a Highly Effective Enterprise Architecture Program.

Publication date is October, 2009.  See our News page for up to date information.

EA Doctrine Echoes Cornerstone

The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession (CAEAP) is presenting a document entitled “Enterprise Architecture Doctrine” at their Summit event in late June. As members of CAEAP, we have received a preview version.  This represents CAEAP’s position on the values and principles of the practice and profession of EA. 

We are happy to see that many of the values and principles that we advocate in our approach to EA, as published in Cornerstone, are a part of CAEAP’s doctrine.  Long believers in principles-based EA, the notion of providing a set of foundation values and principles for all EA’s to follow is very encouraging. 

We believe that the efforts of organizations like CAEAP in standardizing and formalizing aspects of the practice and profession of EA can only help increase the value that EA can contribute to an organization. We see countless organizations that struggle with the basic notions of EA due to a lack of common understanding, definitions, methods, models and activities associated with EA. Hopefully the values, principles and approach to EA from Cornerstone and CAEAP’s Doctrine can become the foundation for EA in most organizations.