《软件架构评估》.pdfVIP

A P P L I C A T I O N S A W H I T E P A P E R S E R I E S T O E N S U R E T H AT I T M E E T S T H E N E E D S O F T H E B U S I N E S S , A N I N D E P E N D E N T T E A M S H O U L D E VA L U AT E E N T E R P R I S E A R C H I T E C T U R E P E R I O D I C A L LY. Evaluating Your Enterprise Architecture 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION 2 CHOOSING YOUR EVALUATION TEAM 3 HOMEGROWN EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES 4 PUBLICLY AVAILABLE METHODOLOGIES 5 A FINAL WORD ON EVALUATIONS 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Evaluating Your Enterprise Architecture A logical, business focused enterprise architecture (EA) can deliver exceptional business benefits and investment returns. Ensuring such results is the goal of enterprise architecture evaluation, which should be done periodically by an independent team. Independent evaluation will facil- itate confident decisions by EA management and sponsors; provide valuable input to the architecture team; and help the architecture succeed by adding visibility and weight to the team’s authority. Effective evaluations can be performed using one of the many publicly available methodologies or via homegrown methods. What if you have no corporate architecture group or EA project in progress? Fact is, you always have an EA, even though it may be a hodge-podge. Periodic evaluation will help you understand the strengths and opportunities made possible b