You can read the abstract and purchase the book directly from the Springer website: (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-9858-9).

After much hard work, AEA Member Eric Jager has published his new book, Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture: A Practical and Pragmatic Approach to Learning the Basics of Enterprise Architecture.

This book will be a welcome additional reference to complement anyone's library of Enterprise Architecture resources. In a short time, the book has already received favorable feedback.

Eric Jager has been practicing Enterprise Architecture for over 15 years and has extensive knowledge and experience in the development and application of Enterprise Architecture. He easily leverages architecture to translate business strategy into implementation. The inspiration for his book Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture came from Eric’s work experience in organizations with regulatory functions in both the financial and healthcare industries, commercial service providers and several hospitals. There, he noticed that organizations continued to struggle with properly implementing architectural thinking and working with architecture. Eric set out to create an easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement architecture methodology.

Using a self-created Enterprise Architecture Implementation Wheel, he developed an approach to implementing Enterprise Architecture that can be used by both novice and experienced architects. 

Aside from being the author of Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture, Eric lectures on architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He likes to focus on the practical and pragmatic application of Enterprise Architecture and writes about his daily experiences on his blog.

Book Overview:

Implement a basic Enterprise Architecture from start to finish using a four stage wheel-based approach. Aided by real-world examples, this book shows what elements are needed for the initial implementation of a fundamental Enterprise Architecture.

The book’s pragmatic approach keeps existing architecture frameworks and methodologies in mind while providing instructions that are readable and applicable to all. The Enterprise Architecture Implementation Wheel builds on the methodology of existing architecture frameworks and allows you to apply the theory more pragmatically and closer to the reality that an architect encounters in daily practice.

While the main focus of the book is the actual steps taken to design an Enterprise Architecture, other important topics include architecture origin, definition, domains, visualization, and roles. Getting Started with Enterprise Architecture is the ideal handbook for the architect who is asked to implement an Enterprise Architecture in an existing organization.

You will:

•  Identify a company’s needs and develop an appropriate strategy

to satisfy those needs

•  Implement measurable goals and objectives for a baseline architecture

•  Create meaningful catalogues, diagrams, and maps to communicate

the architecture to an organization

•  Measure the progress of implementing the architecture

Eric shares his monthly blog on the AEA website A Day in the Life of an Enterprise Architect. He's also presented webinars with AEA:

• Making Sense of Strategy - September 22, 2022
• Becoming a Master Architect - What Does it Take to Complete Open CA Certification? - March 30, 2023

For more details about his book, and information about Eric, visit his website.

One of your AEA Member benefits is access to our On Demand Library. Please login and listen to our AEA Webinars.

On Tuesday, Myles Suer and Balaji Ganesan shared their webinar presentation on "Architecting Generative AI So It's Safe to Deploy" with the AEA community.

While the TOGAF ADM and TOGAF's approaches to integrated risk and security remain useful guides, the approaches that need to be deployed for protecting enterprise security are fundamentally different when considering how LLMs, Vector Databases, and Prompt and Query Engines operate. This presentation will explain how Gen AI works, address the data security concerns, and suggest an approach to Generative AI Governance and Protection.

AEA Members can login and listen to the webinar and view the presentation slides HERE.

For further content on AI and Enterprise Architecture check out Sam Holcman's AEA webinar on "Gaining a Competetive Advantage using AI and Enterprise Architecture" on June 22nd earlier this year.

Since September, AEA has been hosting a four part webinar workshop series. Jason Uppal has been conducting these workshops on Business Transformation and Lived Experiences centered around leveraging your real world life experiences, and using them to drive transformational change. In these workshops you'll learn how to overcome the Business Requirements challenge for transformational programs in Organizations, in Communities, and in Public Institutions that serve us all.

AEA Members can listen to the first three webinar presentations and view the accompanying slide decks in On Demand Events.

Bring yourself up-to-speed, then register for the final workshop:

Transformational Change - Share & Learn | Wednesday, December 13th

So you have completed the TOGAF 9.x exams, completed a training course on Business Architecture, and also successfully completed the ArchiMate course. You are wondering "what now”?

During this webinar:

• We will discuss the certification path to follow and its conformance requirements;
• You will learn about the questions posed and gain insight into how to answer them. We will go into all the required badges;
• You will be introduced to the various application forms that need to be completed;
• You will gain insight into how the questions relate to the TOGAF ADM;
• We will go through some sample questions and I will demonstrate how to answer them.

AEA Members can login to listen to the webinar recording, and view the presentation slides and Q&A responses under On Demand Events.

Suresh's presentation covers the topics of the book such as state of the enterprise architecture, different architecture frameworks in the industry, some reference architectures, components of enterprise architecture, setting up the practice, different levels of architectures, business capability development and developing architecture in an agile manner.

Agile Architecture – How do Architects Navigate in a VUCA World?

We're living in a world where what is accepted today will not be accepted tomorrow.
Clients’ needs are changing, and the markets are volatile. Agility is a key requirement for many organizations that are looking for a digital future. IT Architecture is central to the success of any digital transformation.

Keerthi Anantapur Guggila discusses best practices and guidelines for an architect to navigate in a VUCA world and deliver in an agile way.

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In the latest webinar hosted by AEA, Dr. Oliver Bossert and Prof. Sharm Manwani discuss their latest findings from the EA Survey and their practical lessons on how EA is progressing on its journey to make a bigger impact.

Four distinct areas are explored: Strategy and C-suite, Customer and Business redesign, Modern Technology Architecture, and Agile Governance.

Go to On Demand Events to listen to the webinar recording and view the presentation slides.

(Since this is a member benefit, AEA members will need to login to the website to view this content).

** If you enjoy this webinar, have a listen to the 2020 webinars where Oliver and Sharm present their research findings about EA.

... And finally, we encourage AEA members to participate in the ongoing research conducted by McKinsey and the Henley Business School about the role of enterprise architecture. Go to www.easurvey.org to share your insights.

The latest AEA Webinar installment is now available for your consumption.

ArcOps Pipeline: Architecting Intelligent Enterprises

Asif Gill from Sydney, Australia shares his insights on the contemporary adaptive enterprise architecture (AEA); an information approach that provides an integrated architecture and operations (ArcOps) pipeline, with supporting tool chain. This approach supports decisions, actions, and desired outcomes for intelligent enterprises.

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