Svyatoslav Kotusev
The Practice of Enterprise Architecture: A Modern Approach to Business and IT Alignment

At the same time, realistic and trustworthy information on enterprise architecture is still incredibly hard to find in any available sources.
Based on an extensive study of the actual industry best practices and existing EA literature, this book provides a unique, systematic, end-to-end description of various aspects of an EA practice integrated into a consistent logical picture.

In particular, this book offers clear, research-based, conceptually sound and practically actionable answers to the key questions related to enterprise architecture: What is the meaning of enterprise architecture and an EA practice? What processes constitute established EA practices and how do they work? What EA artifacts are used in successful EA practices and how? What is the best way to structure architecture roles and functions? What software tools and modeling languages are necessary for enterprise architecture? How to initiate an EA practice in organizations from scratch and evolve it? Where do current EA best practices originate from?
This book is organized in a highly structured, sequential manner and does not require any prior knowledge of enterprise architecture.

The book is intended for a broad audience of people interested in enterprise architecture including practicing and aspiring architects, architecture managers, academic EA researchers, EA lecturers and students in universities.