Summary

A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups. Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years Presents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.

Author Biography

JASON BLOOMBERG is President of ZapThink, a Dovel Technologies Company. He is a thought leader in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, and Cloud Computing, and helps organizations around the world better leverage their IT resources to meet changing business needs. He is one of the original Managing Partners of ZapThink LLC, a leading SOA advisory and analysis firm, which was acquired by Dovel Technologies in August 2011. He developed the only vendor-independent, Enterprise Architecture–focused SOA and Cloud Computing training available on the market. This training includes Enterprise Architecture considerations for various Cloud-based options, how to put together a Cloud road map, and how best to communicate the position the Cloud should take in the greater context of agile Enterprise Architecture.

Foreword: The Agile Architecture Revolution

Preface

Part I: Enterprise as Complex System

Chapter 1 Introducing Agile Architecture

Deconstructing Agile

Architecting Software/Human Systems

Meta Thinking and Agile Architecture

Defining Architecture: Worse than Herding Cats

Why Nobody is Doing Enterprise Architecture

Complex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture

Chapter 2 Shhh, Don’t Tell Anyone, But Let’s Talk about Service-Oriented Architecture

Rumors of SOA’s Demise…

Thinking Outside the SOA Box

OK, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place?

Services: the Core SOA Lesson

Implementing Policy-Driven Behavior

What’s the Deal with Web Services?

The Third Conversation

Freeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure

Implementing SOA without an ESB

The SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz

Chapter 3 Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-requirement

Organizational Context for Governance

Architecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance

Rethinking Quality

Introducing the Agility Model

Meta-Policy Governance

Interrelationships among Governance, Quality, and Management

Four Stages of Agile Architecture Governance

Architecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect

Chapter 4 The Enterprise as Complex System

Engineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering

Best Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star

Best Effort Quality in Action

Resilience: The Flip Side of Agility

The Flashmob Enterprise

Chapter 5 Agile Architecture in Practice

The Composition Vision for IT

Vision to Reality: Rethinking Integration

Aligning Agile Architecture with BPM

Business Modeling and Agile Architecture

Processes that Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility

Part II: The ZapThink 2020 Vision

Chapter 6 You Say You Want a Revolution…

Five Supertrends of Enterprise IT

Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020

Where’s our Deep Interoperability?

The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision

Big Data Explosion and The Christmas Day Bomber

Stuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar

Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way

The Generation Y Crisis Point

Chapter 7 The Democratization of Enterprise IT

Demise of the Enterprise IT Department

The Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management

Crisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash

Replacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done

Part III: Implementing Agile Architecture

Chapter 8 Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!)

Programmable Interfaces: The Never-ending Story

REST to the Rescue

Dogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST

REST vs. Web Services

Can REST fix Web Services?

Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability?

Where is the SOA in REST-based SOA?

REST-Based SOA: an Iconoclastic Approach

Chapter 9 Finally, Let’s Move to the Cloud

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Countering Vendor Spin with Architecture

Interlude: Neutralizing the Cloud Threat

Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors

Architecting Beyond Cloud Computing’s Horseless Carriage

BASE Jumping in the Cloud: Rethinking Data Consistency

Cloud Multitenancy: More than Meets the Eye

Keys to Enterprise Public Cloud

Why Public Clouds are More Secure than Private Clouds

Why You Really, Truly Don’t Want a Private Cloud

Avoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls

Rethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements

Are Your Software Licenses Cloud-Friendly?

Garbage in the Cloud

Beware Fake Clouds

Learning the Right Lessons from the 2011 and 2012 Amazon Crashes

Failure is the Only Option

Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds

Clouds, SOA, REST, and State

The Secret of a RESTful Cloud

BPM in the Cloud: Disruptive Technology

Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things

Location Independence: The Buckaroo Banzai Effect

Postscript: The Cloud is the Computer

Chapter 10 Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture?

Frameworks and Methodologies and Styles, Oh My!

The Beginning of the End for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

How to Buy an Agile Architecture

Dangers of “Checklist” Architecture

Conclusion

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Index

Supplemental Materials

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