“Agile Enterprise Solution Architecture” presents an IT service-based enterprise solution architecture that bridges the gap between traditional solution architecture and enterprise architecture in a holistic yet pragmatic modeling approach. It aims for ease of use and flexibility to better tackle the uncertainties within an IT system and reduce the cost of change.
This book is written by and for the practitioners without finicky definitions. Exemplified with a walkthrough case study, the modeling framework offered here helps externalize various stakeholders’ mental needs by correlating relevant architectural elements, placing functional services in the characterized containers (including cloud environment), and running through the optimal solutions. By leveraging the model’s architectural-thinking mechanism, IT architects can explore solutions from both structural and decisional schools of thought to grasp real problems and progressively reshape the systems for a larger, ever-changing context.