Abstract
To detail the main meaningful activities of EA, in chapters 5, 6 and 7 we go through a scenario illustrating the lifecycle of a pragmatic, business aligned EA development exercise.
Chapter 5 covers the first, crucial stage of our EA lifecycle: Align. The main activities, tools, techniques and artefacts for the alignment phase are introduced.
Keywords: Architecture artefacts, business and IT alignment, business value classification, current state assessment, enterprise ‘as is’, Heat Maps, investment priorities, IT strategy maps, business service maps, strategy maps, The EA project.
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Inji Wijegunaratne, George Fernandez, Peter Evans-Greenwood ;Alignment, Enterprise Architecture for Business Success (2014) 1: 46. https://doi.org/10.2174/9781608059560114010009
DOI https://doi.org/10.2174/9781608059560114010009 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |