
AI-Augmented Enterprise
Architecture
Semantics, Specification, and Continuous Execution
Enterprise architecture was designed for a world where change moved slowly enough for documents, reviews, and committees to keep pace. That world no longer exists. This book sets out what replaces it.
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- Chapters
- 19
- Sections
- 210
- Figures, tables & listings
- 133
- Format
- Kindle
About this book
Cloud platforms, APIs, AI systems, autonomous agents, and continuous delivery have turned architecture from a periodic planning activity into a continuous operational discipline. The cost of ambiguity has increased while the time available for interpretation has decreased. Architecture must become explicit, machine-usable, and capable of participating directly in execution.
AI-Augmented Enterprise Architecture introduces a specification-driven approach that connects enterprise intent to operational outcomes through governed semantic assets. Rather than treating architecture as a collection of static documents, the book presents the Enterprise Architecture Codex, a structured system for managing intent, capabilities, policies, constraints, decisions, specifications, controls, evidence, and feedback as typed and reusable assets.
Drawing on enterprise architecture practice, software product lines, architecture governance, policy-as-code, data management, and AI-assisted delivery, the book describes how organizations can evolve toward continuous and executable architecture while preserving control, traceability, and sovereignty.
Through the ACME Pharma case study, readers follow the complete journey from strategic intent to executable specifications, automated controls, and operational feedback, demonstrating how architecture can become an active component of enterprise execution rather than a passive description of it.
Who it is for
Enterprise & chief architects
Anyone accountable for coherence across strategy, portfolio, and delivery who needs architecture to survive contact with weekly releases.
Solution & platform architects
Practitioners who already work in Rego, ArchUnit, Backstage, and CI, and want the enterprise layer to arrive as typed artifacts rather than slide decks.
Engineering & transformation leaders
Leaders running AI, data, and platform programs who need governance that is continuous, auditable, and cheap to enforce.
What is inside
Nineteen chapters and a conclusion. Chapters 1 to 6 are published here in full; the remaining chapters are previewed with their outline and every figure, table and listing.
Part I: Foundations
- 1The Limits of Traditional Enterprise Architecture free to read
- 2Continuous Enterprise Architecture free to read
- 3Intent-Driven Architecture free to read
- 4Why AI and Automation Change the Stakes free to read
- 5Automating RISE with SAP Through Specification-Driven Enterprise Architecture free to read
- 6The Enterprise Architecture Codex free to read
Part II: Industrialization and Making It Real
Part III: Method in Practice
- 10From Prompt Craft to the Agent Contract
- 11Data Management in Spec-Driven Enterprise Architecture
- 12Extending TOGAF for Continuous and Executable Architecture
- 13Sovereignty in Specification-Driven Enterprise Architecture
- 14SAP API Policy as an External Trigger or how the EA Codex absorbs vendor policy changes
Part IV: The Integrated ACME Pharma Case
Formats and stores
Available on Kindle now; the paperback edition follows shortly. Pricing varies by store and currency, so the current price is always the one shown on your Amazon storefront.
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The Introduction and the whole of Part I are on this site, in full. Every other chapter shows its outline and every figure, table and listing from the published edition.