Enterprise Architecture
General material on architecture at portfolio and estate scale.
8 terms in this topic
Application Portfolio Management
Maintaining an inventory of every application with its owner, cost, business value and technical health, and using it to decide what to invest in, re…
practiceArchitecture Review Board
A forum that reviews significant designs against standards, risks and strategy before commitment.
practiceCapability Map
A structured view of everything a business does, used as the stable frame for mapping applications, investment, ownership and gaps.
case-studyCapital One's Data Centre Exit
A major US bank closed all eight of its data centres and moved fully to public cloud, treating governance automation as the enabling technology rathe…
practicePaved Road
A supported, opinionated default way to build and run a service, made easy enough that teams choose it rather than being required to.
practiceReference Architecture
A pre-approved, documented template for a recurring class of solution, so that similar problems do not get individually redesigned.
practiceTechnology Radar
A published, periodically-reviewed view of which technologies are endorsed, tolerated, being trialled, or to be avoided.
practiceTOGAF
An enterprise architecture framework whose central element is the ADM, an iterative cycle from vision through business, data, application and technol…
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EA Domains
Business, application, data and technology architecture as viewpoints.
No content yetApplication Architecture
The application estate as a designed portfolio rather than an accumulation.
No content yetTechnology Architecture
Platforms, runtimes and infrastructure standards across the estate.
No content yetCapability Maps in EA
The stable frame for hanging investment, ownership and health off.
No content yetApplication Portfolio Management
Inventory, ownership, cost and health for every application.
No content yetApplication Rationalisation
Retire, consolidate, replatform — and why retirement is under-applied.
No content yetTechnology Standards
Guidance that teams follow because it helps, not because it is mandated.
No content yetTechnology Radar
Adopt, trial, assess and hold — with movement, dates and owners.
No content yetReference Architectures
Pre-approved templates for recurring solution shapes.
No content yetArchitecture Governance
Preventive, automated controls rather than review meetings.
No content yetArchitecture Review Boards
Thresholds, early engagement and a real route to accept deviation.
No content yetEnterprise Integration
Estate-wide integration strategy, standards and shared infrastructure.
No content yetTOGAF
The ADM as a checklist, tailored rather than followed literally.
No content yetEA Frameworks
Zachman, FEAF and others — vocabulary rather than method.
No content yetArchitecture Roadmaps
Sequencing change across an estate with dependencies and funding.
No content yetPaved Roads
Making the supported path the easiest path, with a way to leave it.
No content yetPlatform Teams
Reducing other teams' cognitive load, measured by adoption.
No content yetInnerSource
Open-source collaboration practices applied inside an organisation.
No content yetEA Metrics
Measuring whether architecture work changed anything.
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