Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 004.25 EAN: 9780131412750 ISBN: 0131412752 Label: Prentice Hall PTR Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: November 07, 2003 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Sales Rank: 490818 Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
Product DescriptionIn A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture, six leading experts present indispensable technical, process, and business insight into every aspect of enterprise architecture. You'll find start-to-finish guidance for architecting effective system, software, and service-oriented architectures; using product lines to streamline enterprise software design; leveraging powerful agile modeling techniques; extending the Unified Process to the full software lifecycle; architecting presentation tiers and user experience; and driving the technical direction of the entire enterprise. For every working architect and every IT professional who wants to become one.
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Rating: - A very poor book on EA
About 4 pages of this book concern Zachman. The rest of the book largely avoids any enterprise architecture topic.
The confused authors, and some reviewers here, do not understand the difference between enterprise architecture and software architecture.
The title of this book mimics the very popular PDF document "A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture", written for government EA practice. It may seem odd, but US government practice is at the forefront of EA because ... Read More
Rating: - The title is misleading. The book is NOT a practical guide to Enterprise Architecture
The title 'A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture' led me to expect a book that dealt with the processes, challenges and techniques for creating an ENTERPRISE architecture. It does not. The book is about various technology frameworks. The Contents lists Systems Architectures, Solution Architectures and Service Oriented Architectures but not Enterprise Architecture. Enterprise Architecture is skimmed over in the Preface. The book barely touches on Zachman and Spewak and Hill. It ignores FEAF, TEAF, ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding Enterprise Architecture Book
I picked up this book today to get a some input on a pending Enterprise Architecture effort I am pursuing for a large organization. This book blows me away with a straight forward evaluation of a number of enterprise architecture approaches. It gives examples of methods to sell enterprise architectures to customer organizations. One of the greatest difficulties in enterprise architecture is communicating its value to lay people. This book does a great job of spelling things out in simple English. I ... Read More
Rating: - Don't bother
book does not discuss enterprise architecture -- doesn't cover some of the methods, frameworks, and the purpose for EA. Doesn't even give a definition of what EA is. Contains several disjointed chapters with topics that are remotely related to EA but does not even begin to tie together or address the queston "what is EA?" You can do better with free online resources.
Rating: - This book is not about EA
Completely missed the Enterprise side of the equation. As an introduction or practical guide this book is next to useless. I gave this book one star and someone it appeared as four !!!!!
- A very poor book on EA
- Outstanding Enterprise Architecture Book
- This book is not about EA
