Section 1: Enterprise Architecture with Sparx Enterprise Architect
This section briefly introduces Enterprise Architecture (EA) and TOGAF®, and explains why this book can be of value to you and how we have structured it to be easy to follow.
This section addresses the problems that are faced by EA practitioners and introduces you to the methodology, the modeling notation, and the modeling tool that will be used as components of a solution. It addresses why some organizations have lost interest in EA, but more importantly, it introduces solutions to regain business trust in it again.
Since this book is mainly concerned with making EA practical, we will introduce three fictional problem scenarios that can guide you to create useful artifacts and show some tangible values of EA in your workplace.
This section comprises the following chapters: