A4 Article in conference proceedings
Systemic Management of Architectural Decisions in Enterprise Architecture Planning : Four Dimensions and Three Abstraction Levels (2006)

Pulkkinen, M. (2006). Systemic Management of Architectural Decisions in Enterprise Architecture Planning. Four Dimensions and Three Abstraction Levels. In R. H. Sprague (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society. IEEE Computer Society.

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All authors or editors: Pulkkinen, Mirja

Parent publication: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06)

Parent publication editors: Sprague, Ralph H., Jr

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Place and date of conference: Kauai, HI, USA, 4.-7.1.2006

ISBN: 0-7695-2507-5

Publication year: 2006

Number of pages in the book: 265

Publisher: IEEE computer society press

Place of Publication: Los Alamitos, California

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2006.447

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/59436

Abstract

This paper presents a process model for the management of architectural decisions in enterprise architecture planning. First, decisions are made at the enterprise level, with strategic business considerations on the enterprise information, systems and technology strategy and governance issues. The next step is to define the domains, to then go on with domain architecture decisions. At the systems level, the enterprise and domain architecture decisions are collected and converted into architecture descriptions accurate in precision, form and detail to be given as input to the information systems development process, following the architectural planning. The model is derived from previous work and empirical findings in three large organizations, where the enterprise architecture and enterprise systems have been developed. This case study contributes with considerations on the domains, their definition, and produces refinements to an enterprise architecture process model presented before. For the development of the model, the "living system" paradigm is followed.

Keywords: systems architecture; enterprise architecture; corporate strategies; decision making

Free keywords: architecture management; architecture decisions; architecture process; EA project

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