Chapter 10: Operating the EA Repository

Someone once said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Once you begin producing and publishing models based on detailed, complete, and consistent information about your organization's enterprise, there is little doubt others will want to do the same. This is an ideal situation. Having a common and consistent understanding of the composition and state of your enterprise is the basis for making sound decisions regarding it. It is what brings trust to the Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. Indeed, you should encourage reusing the information in your repository whenever possible.

Sharing a repository, however, presents another set of challenges. For anyone who has worked within or managed a development environment or any other shared resource, these challenges may seem familiar. Managing or operating an EA as a shared resource is the subject of this chapter. In this chapter, we will review three topics related to operating...