This site is a comprehensive reference site and community resource for Enterprise-wide Information Technology Architecture (EWITA) or Enterprise Architecture (EA).
About EWITA
The EWITA site serves those who are working in the Enterprise Architecture space. It is useful to Information or Data Architects, Application or Software Architects, Technology or Infrastructure Architects and Architecture Program Managers, Product Line Architecture Managers, Reuse Program Managers, as well as everyone who needs to think strategically about architecture and business leadership, including CIO's and CTO's.
The EWITA site was founded and created by David McAfee. He assembled a tremendous information resource for Enterprise Architects. Bredemeyer Consulting took over the site on June 1, 2001.
- Of interest to Enterprise Architects around the world:
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The Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession has established an Oath and Doctrine for the Enterprise Architecture Profession. Go here to become a signatory to the oath, and here to sign the EA Doctrine.
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The Association for Open Group Enterprise Architects AOGEA (and GEAO)
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You may be interested in these Enterprise Architecture Executive Reports from Cutter Consortium, written by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer:
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"What it takes to be a great Enterprise Architect." You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/greatarchitect.html
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"Enterprise Architecture as Strategic Differentiator." You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/strategic.html
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If you are interested in topics like agile architecture, scaling agile, organizing for architecture and innovation, and the Visual Architecting Process, watch for our book that is due in bookstores in 2010. In the meantime, the report we did for Cutter last year, titled 'Getting Past "But": Finding Opportunity and Making It Happen,' covers these topics. You can download a complimentary copy from http://www.cutter.com/offers/findopportunity.html
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The following classes are of special interest to Enterprise Architects, and the teams of solution architects, domain architects, application architects and managers and business analysts who partner with them.
Open Enrollment Classes from Bredemeyer Consulting Enterprise Architecture Workshop:
- Chicago, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2009Software Architecture Workshop:
- Indianapolis, IN October 20-23, 2009 -
Resources for Architects site updates: Added Visualization Resources <7/16/09>
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Resources for Architects site updates: Added Architecture Principles: Definitions and links <3/24/09>
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We have added a slide set on "Enterprise Architecture as Business Capabilities Architecture". Our work on Architecture Strategy is very applicable to Enterprise Architecture. It is published at http://www.bredemeyer.com/ArchitectingProcess/ArchitectureStrategy.htm.
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Software Architecture Action Guide is a draft of a book by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer. See http://www.ruthmalan.com.
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Practical Software Architecture For the Enterprise: Software Architect's Toolbox is a draft of a book by Boris Monin, published at http://www.safe-house.org/SH-Book/safe-house-book.htm.
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Software Architect, is a "book in the making" by Nigel Leeming, that for now, is published on the web at www.ivencia.com/softwarearchitect
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The Philips Gaudi Architecture project site has been significantly updated and has remarkable depth and coverage of their internal architecture training material on the site http://www.gaudisite.nl/.
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Gartner has a report on Enterprise Architecture (some of the reports referenced in the first part of this 3-part report can be accessed even if you don’t have a subscription to Gartner reports). See http://www4.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.2225.s.8.jsp.
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The EWITA site was transferred from founder and creator, David McAfee to Bredemeyer Consulting on June 1, 2001. Bredemeyer Consulting also sponsors and maintains the popular Resources for Software Architects web site, and we will leverage synergies across the two sites, together with our considerable architecture experience, to continue to make the EWITA site interesting and useful.
Books:
- Allen, Paul with Sam Higgins, Paul McRae and Hermann Schlamann, Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, 2006.
- Erl, Thomas, SOA: Principles of Service Design, Prentice-Hall, 2007.
- Erl, Thomas, Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology and Design, Prentice-Hall, 2005
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Fowler, Martin, David Rice, Matthew Foemmel, Edward Hieatt, Robert Mee, and Randy Stafford, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 2002.
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Hay, David C., Requirements Analysis: From Business Views to Architecture, Prentice-Hall, 2003. (Essentially a perspective on the Zachman Framework.)
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Hohman, Luke, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions, by Addison-Wesley, 2003.
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(forthcoming) Malan, Ruth and Dana Bredemeyer, Software Architecture Action Guide, see http://www.ruthmalan.com for draft chapters.
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Marks, Eric A. and Michael Bell, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology, Wiley, 2006.
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O'Rourke, Carol, Neal Fishman, and Warren Selkow, Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework, by Course Technology, 2003.
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Perks, Col, and Tony Beveridge, Guide to Enterprise IT Architecture. Springer-Verlag. New York, 2003. (Essentially a book on TOGAF.)