{"product_id":"the-agile-architecture-revolution-isbn-9781118409770","title":"The Agile Architecture Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Agile Architecture Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides 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 architecture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFOREWORD xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePREFACE xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE—Enterprise as Complex System 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1 Introducing Agile Architecture 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstructing Agile 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecting Software\/Human Systems 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeta Thinking and Agile Architecture 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining Architecture: Worse Than Herding Cats 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Nobody Is Doing Enterprise Architecture 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2 Shhh, Don’t Tell Anyone, but Let’s Talk about Service-Oriented Architecture 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRumors of SOA’s Demise . . . 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking Outside the SOA Box 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOkay, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place? 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eServices: The Core SOA Lesson 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImplementing Policy-Driven Behavior 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s the Deal with Web Services? 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Third Conversation 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImplementing SOA without an ESB 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3 Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-Requirement 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizational Context for Governance 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Quality 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroducing the Agility Model 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeta-Policy Governance 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterrelationships among Governance, Quality, and Management 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour Stages of Agile Architecture Governance 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4 The Enterprise as Complex System 73\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBest-Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBest-Effort Quality in Action 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResilience: The Flip Side of Agility 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Flash Mob Enterprise 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5 Agile Architecture in Practice 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Composition Vision for IT 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVision to Reality: Rethinking Integration 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAligning Agile Architecture with BPM 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBusiness Modeling and Agile Architecture 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProcesses That Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO—The ZapThink 2020 Vision\u003c\/b\u003e 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 6 You Say You Want a Revolution . . . 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFive Supertrends of Enterprise IT 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere’s Our Deep Interoperability? 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBig Data Explosion and the Christmas Day Bomber 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Generation Y Crisis Point 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 7 The Democratization of Enterprise IT 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemise of the Enterprise IT Department 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReplacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE—Implementing Agile Architecture 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 8 Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!) 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProgrammable Interfaces: The Never-Ending Story 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREST to the Rescue 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREST vs. Web Services 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan REST Fix Web Services? 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes REST Provide Deep Interoperability? 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere Is the SOA in REST-Based SOA? 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eREST-Based SOA: An Iconoclastic Approach 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 9 Finally, Let’s Move to the Cloud 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeja Vu All Over Again 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCountering Vendor Spin with Architecture 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterlude: Neutralizing the Cloud Threat 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecting beyond Cloud Computing’s Horseless Carriage 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBASE Jumping in the Cloud: Rethinking Data Consistency 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloud Multitenancy: More than Meets the Eye 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeys to Enterprise Public Cloud 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Public Clouds Are More Secure than Private Clouds 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy You Really, Truly Don’t Want a Private Cloud 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAvoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre Your Software Licenses Cloud Friendly? 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGarbage in the Cloud 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeware Fake Clouds 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning the Right Lessons from the 2011 and 2012 Amazon Crashes 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailure Is the Only Option 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClouds, SOA, REST, and State 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Secret of a RESTful Cloud 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBPM in the Cloud: Disruptive Technology 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocation Independence: The Buckaroo Banzai Effect 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostscript: The Cloud Is the Computer 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 10 Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture? 243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrameworks and Methodologies and Styles, Oh My! 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beginning of the End for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Buy an Agile Architecture 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dangers of Checklist Architecture 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCONCLUSION 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINDEX 267\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJASON BLOOMBERG\u003c\/b\u003e 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.     \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Agile Architecture Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow Cloud Computing, REST-Based SOA, and Mobile Computing Are Changing Enterprise IT  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pace of change in business has once again accelerated, except now the context for this change is far more complex than the simpler, one-dimensional dot-com days. The evidence of revolution is all around us—it's time to identify individual trends and tie them together into a single story of transformation. 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