Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and Technologies
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Clive Finkelstein’s Enterprise Architecture for Integration: Rapid Delivery Methods and Technologies tackles the problems of designing and implementing architectures while trying to balance the need for speed prevalent in all IT projects.
The author begins in Chapter 1, “Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Engineering”, by describing the Zachman Framework, then Enterprise Engineering. It is in this second segment where a concept often missed by other authors is covered. After giving a list of well-known problems with existing development methods, he states: “The traditional systems development approach – interviewing users based on existing business processes and then identifying their future needs – does not work well in periods of rapid change, such as today.” In fact I will make this point stronger, “if we base our needs for the future on operational processes that we still use today – we are implicitly assuming that the future will be similar to the past. This is very dangerous; few industries and enterprises can say today that their future will be like their past. Most know that the future will be quite different. The only certainty we have is that the processes we will need then are quite different from the processes we use today.
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