Foreword: The Agile Architecture Revolution Preface Part I: Enterprise as Complex System Chapter 1 Introducing Agile Architecture Deconstructing Agile Architecting Software/Human Systems Meta Thinking and Agile Architecture Defining Architecture: Worse than Herding Cats Why Nobody is Doing Enterprise Architecture Complex Systems: At the Heart of Agile Architecture Chapter 2 Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone, But Let's Talk about Service-Oriented Architecture Rumors of SOA's Demise... Thinking Outside the SOA Box OK, So How Did SOA End Up Dead in the First Place? Services : the Core SOA Lesson Implementing Policy-Driven Behavior What's the Deal with Web Services? The Third Conversation Freeing Architecture from the Underlying Infrastructure Implementing SOA without an ESB The SOA Marketing Paradox and the Wizard of Oz Chapter 3 Governance: The Secret to Satisfying the Business Agility Meta-requirement Organizational Context for Governance Architecture-Driven Governance: Beyond IT Governance Rethinking Quality Introducing the Agility Model Meta-Policy Governance Interrelationships among Governance, Quality, and Management Four Stages of Agile Architecture Governance Architecture-Driven Governance and the Butterfly Effect Chapter 4 The Enterprise as Complex System Engineering the Enterprise with Complex Systems Engineering Best Effort Quality and the Agile Architecture Quality Star Best Effort Quality in Action Resilience: The Flip Side of Agility The Flashmob Enterprise Chapter 5 Agile Architecture in Practice The Composition Vision for IT Vision to Reality: Rethinking Integration Aligning Agile Architecture with BPM Business Modeling and Agile Architecture Processes that Satisfy the Meta-Requirement of Agility Part II: The ZapThink 2020 Vision Chapter 6 You Say You Want a Revolution... Five Supertrends of Enterprise IT Continuous Business Transformation: At the Center of ZapThink 2020 Where's our Deep Interoperability? The Crisis Points of the ZapThink 2020 Vision Big Data Explosion and The Christmas Day Bomber Stuxnet and Wikileaks: Harbingers of Cyberwar Cybersecurity the Agile Architecture Way The Generation Y Crisis Point Chapter 7 The Democratization of Enterprise IT Demise of the Enterprise IT Department The Agile Architecture Approach to IT Project Management Crisis Point: The Enterprise Application Crash Replacing Enterprise Software: Easier Said than Done Part III: Implementing Agile Architecture Chapter 8 Deep Interoperability: Getting REST Right (Finally!) Programmable Interfaces: The Never-ending Story REST to the Rescue Dogmatic vs. Iconoclastic REST REST vs. Web Services Can REST fix Web Services? Does REST Provide Deep Interoperability? Where is the SOA in REST-based SOA? REST-Based SOA: an Iconoclastic Approach Chapter 9 Finally, Let's Move to the Cloud Deja Vu All Over Again Countering Vendor Spin with Architecture Interlude: Neutralizing the Cloud Threat Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors Architecting Beyond Cloud Computing's Horseless Carriage BASE Jumping in the Cloud: Rethinking Data Consistency Cloud Multitenancy: More than Meets the Eye Keys to Enterprise Public Cloud Why Public Clouds are More Secure than Private Clouds Why You Really, Truly Don't Want a Private Cloud Avoiding Unexpected Cloud Economics Pitfalls Rethinking Cloud Service Level Agreements Are Your Software Licenses Cloud-Friendly? Garbage in the Cloud Beware Fake Clouds Learning the Right Lessons from the 2011 and 2012 Amazon Crashes Failure is the Only Option Cloud Configuration Management: Where the Rubber Hits the Clouds Clouds, SOA, REST, and State The Secret of a RESTful Cloud BPM in the Cloud: Disruptive Technology Cloud-Oriented Architecture and the Internet of Things Location Independence: The Buckaroo Banzai Effect Postscript: The Cloud is the Computer Chapter 10 Can We Do Agile Enterprise Architecture? Frameworks and Methodologies and Styles, Oh My! The Beginning of the End for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks How to Buy an Agile Architecture Dangers of "Checklist" Architecture Conclusion List of Abbreviations About the Author Index
