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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.
Announcements
- 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.
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Open
Enrollment Classes from
Bredemeyer
Consulting |
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Enterprise Architecture
Workshop:
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Chicago, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 2009 |
Software Architecture Workshop:
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Indianapolis,
IN October 20-23, 2009 |
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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:
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Allen, Paul with Sam Higgins, Paul McRae and
Hermann Schlamann,
Service Orientation: Winning Strategies and Best Practices, 2006.
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Erl, Thomas,
SOA: Principles of Service Design, Prentice-Hall, 2007.
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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.)
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