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An enterprise architecture framework is really a statement of philosophy. It spells out what is important about how enterprise systems should be designed and built and how they should interoperate with one another. Like any philosophy, it is a means of organizing one’s thoughts about the task to be accomplished. The enterprise architecture framework is built on a foundation of model-based engineering. It relies on creating models that accurately capture the most important elements of the enterprise architecture in a format that enables automated analysis. It relies on carefully modeling what is needed to govern the enterprise and only those things; everything else is either completely extraneous or properly the domain of a solution architecture (i.e., an architecture for a specific system to be built).
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They are considered identical although there may be rounding errors.
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George E. P. Box, “Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific Model Building,” in Robustness in Statistics (Elsevier, 1979), pp. 201–236.
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George Edward Pelham Box (1919–2013) was a British mathematician who made significant contributions to the fields of statistics, quality control, time-series analysis, and other fields. He founded the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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To create well-defined goals, use the SMART criteria defined in Chapter 2.
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Merriam-Webster, 11th ed. s.v. “standard,” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standard.
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McDowall, J.D. (2019). Overview of the Enterprise Architecture Framework. In: Complex Enterprise Architecture. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4306-0_3
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