In the last step we decided that a combination of federation and centralization will suit the enterprise best. So the underlying question is; what parts are centralized and what parts are federated? The answer is ... it depends! There are a variety of...

During the last step we began scratching the surface of the needs of the enterprise. Clearly it was too broad a description to make any significant architectural decisions. Agile practices provide us a simple and effective approach to address this......

Now that we have gathered some initial information we need to sort it out. Actually its more complicated than just sorting, we need to find the patterns in what we have as well as see the missing parts for what they should be. Here's how I do it; First...