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...

List of contents

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 Governance, Quality, and Management 64
 
Four Stages of Agile Architecture Governance 67
 
Architecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect 70
 
CHAPTER 4 The Enterprise as Complex System 73
 
Engineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering 73
 
Best-Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star 76
 
Best-Effort Quality in Action 80
 
Resilience: The Flip Side of Agility 83
 
The Flash Mob Enterprise 86
 
CHAPTER 5 Agile Architecture in Practice 89
 
The Composition Vision for IT 90
 
Vision to Reality: Rethinking Integration 93
 
Aligning Agile Architecture with BPM 96
 
Business Modeling and Agile Architecture 98
 
Processes That Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility 100
 
PART TWO--The ZapThink 2020 Vision 103
 
CHAPTER 6 You Say You Want a Revolution . . . 105
 
Five Supertrends of Enterprise IT 108
 
Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020 110
 
Where's Our Deep Interoperability? 112
 
The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision 113
 
Big Data Explosion and the Christmas Day Bomber 116
 
Stuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar 119
 
Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way 125
 
The Generation Y Crisis Point 128
 
CHAPTER 7 The Democratization of Enterprise IT 133
 
Demise of the Enterprise IT Department 134
 
The Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management 136
 
Crisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash 138
 
Replacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done 144
 
PART THREE--Implementing Agile Architecture 147
 
CHAPTER 8 Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!) 149
 
Programmable Interfaces: The Never-Ending Story 150
 
REST to the Rescue 155
 
Dogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST 161
 
REST vs. Web Services 163
 
Can REST Fix Web Services? 166
 
Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability? 168
 
Where Is the SOA in REST-Based SOA? 170
 
REST-Based SOA: An Iconoclastic Approach 173
 
CHAPTER 9 Finally, Let's Move to the Cloud 177
 
Deja Vu All Over Again 179
 
Countering Vendor Spin with Architecture 181
 
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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