Enterprise Architecture Approaches and Strategies

There are many traditional approaches to enterprise architecture. Unfortunately, these traditional approaches are one of the reasons EA fails in today's world. In the first part of this session I'll describe and demonstrate the traditional approaches to EA, explain why they fail, and then show you several modern approaches to enterprise architecture that hold lots of promise in transforming EA to the 21st century. In the second part of this session I'll then describe 4 different enterprise architecture strategies for overall EA team structure, governance, process, and standards.

Agenda

  • Model-driven approach to EA
  • Initiative-driven approach to EA
  • Why traditional approaches fail
  • Incremental EA approach
  • Value-driven EA approach
  • Adaptive EA Approach
  • Why modern approaches are better
  • EA strategies and standards
  • Prescriptive strategy
  • Classic alternatives strategy
  • Distributed strategy
  • Durable interface strategy

Mark Richards

About Mark Richards

Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including the recently published Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls, Microservices vs. SOA, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, The Enterprise Messaging video series, Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, and contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark has a master’s degree in computer science and is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series. He has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.

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