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Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises - Best Practices

Why do so many IT projects fail? Enterprise consultant Roger Sessions has advised dozens of major companies struggling with unwieldy projects and poor results and helped transform their cultures and outcomes.

His philosophy? Complex problems require simple solutions. Too many software projects fail, he observes, because they use long, expensive processes to build expensive, overly complex implementations. But in this book, Sessions shows you how to make simplicity a core architectural requirement – as critical as performance, reliability, or security – to achieve better, more agile results for your business.

Slash the complexity in IT projects – and maximize the returns to your business.

• Understand the mathematics of complexity – and a process that controls it
• Identify the fundamental units – or autonomous business capabilities – in your enterprise architecture
• Create logical relationships between business processes and software systems
• Adopt an iterative approach to controlling complexity and delivering value
• Apply the 10 Rules of Software Fortresses to your IT solutions
• See how the book´s methodology might have saved a massive, real-world project
• Embrace simplicity as a key business asset – and produce better results!

Contents of "Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises – Best Practices":

Part I – The Question of Complexity

• Enterprise Architecture Today
• A First Look at Complexity
• Mathematics of Complexity

Part II – The Quest for Simplification

• The ABCs of Enterprise Partitions
• SIP Process
• A Case Study in Complexity
• Guarding the Boundaries: Software Fortresses
• The Path Forward

About the Author Roger Sessions:

Roger Sessions is a well-known consultant and expert in the field of enterprise software architecture. He is a board member for the International Association of Software Architects (IASA), editor-in-chief of IASA´s Perspectives journal, and a Microsoft MVP He´s written seven books, including Software Fortresses: Modeling Enterprise Architectures, and presented at dozens of conferences worldwide.