Agile Architecture Revolution - How Cloud Computing, Rest Based Soa, Mobile Computing Are Changing

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architecturesThe 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 architectureLaying 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD xi PREFACE xv PART ONE-Enterprise as Complex System 1 CHAPTER 1 Introducing Agile Architecture 3 Deconstructing Agile 4 Architecting Software/Human Systems 8 Meta Thinking and Agile Architecture 10 Defining Architecture: Worse Than Herding Cats 12 Why Nobody Is Doing Enterprise Architecture 13 Complex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture 16 CHAPTER 2 Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone, but Let's Talk about Service-Oriented Architecture 21 Rumors of SOA's Demise . . . 23 Thinking Outside the SOA Box 26 Okay, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place? 28 Services: The Core SOA Lesson 31 Implementing Policy-Driven Behavior 34 What's the Deal with Web Services? 38 The Third Conversation 41 Freeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure 44 Implementing SOA without an ESB 47 The SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz 48 CHAPTER 3 Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-Requirement 51 Organizational Context for Governance 52 Architecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance 54 Rethinking Quality 57 Introducing the Agility Model 60 Meta-Policy Governance 63 Interrelationships among Governan...

Product details

• Authors: Bloomberg, J Bloomberg, Jason Bloomberg, Bloomberg Jason
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2013
• EAN: 9781118409770
• ISBN: 978-1-118-40977-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Wiley CIO; Wiley CIO
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management