The Need for Explicit Decision-Making Strategies

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss the need to support ACET with information on the rationalisation of design decisions. By doing so, enterprise architects can have an enhanced comprehensibility of the existing, as-is, architecture which helps them to better coordinate the enterprise transformation towards the future, to-be, enterprise architecture design. We start by briefly describing the important steps of an enterprise transformation, some possible problems that arise due to the lack of design rationalisation and then we discuss how existing design rationale techniques can be extended to support the capturing of design rationales for enterprise architecture.