num_pages: 212
description: Enterprises from small to large evolve continuously. As a result their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to future changes. Enterprise architecture principles provide a means to direct transformations of enterprises. As a consequence architecture principles should be seen as the cornerstones of any architecture. In this book Greefhorst and Proper focus on the role of architecture principles. They provide both a theoretical and a practical perspective on architecture principles. The theoretical perspective involves a brief survey of the general concept of principle as well as an analysis of different flavors of principles. Architecture principles are regarded as a specific class of normative principles that direct the design of an enterprise from the definition of its business to its supporting IT. The practical perspective on architecture principles is concerned with an approach to the formulation of architecture principles as well as their actual use in organizations. To illustrate their use in practice several real-life cases are discussed an application of architecture principles in TOGAF is included and a catalogue of example architecture principles is provided. With this broad coverage the authors target students and researchers specializing in enterprise architecture or business information systems as well as practitioners who want to understand the foundations underlying their practical daily work.
language: English
title: Architecture Principles: The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture
publisher: Springer