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A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture Review by Matt Kern
A very poor book on EA
About 4 pages of this book concern Zachman. The rest of the book largely avoids any enterprise architecture topic.
The confused authors, and some reviewers here, do not understand the difference between enterprise architecture and software architecture.
The title of this book mimics the very popular PDF document "A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture", written for government EA practice. It may seem odd, but US government practice is at the forefront of EA because the organizations are huge and the IT budgets massive. Look for this PDF file on the CIO council website or www.egov.gov. This begs the question of if the authors wanted to steal from the popularity of the earlier work and take advantage of those without a deep knowledge of EA- such as most programmers.
Missing from the book are things like TOGAF, FEAF, DODAF. Also missing is the practical list of artifacts in Scott Bernard's EA3 book. Come to think of it, get Scott's book, DODAF vol 1 & 2, the PDFs at www.egov.gov under the EA link, FEAF v 1.1 (PDF) and you will be far ahead of this confused mishmash of OO religion and EA misinformation.
I've been doing this for about 20 years, so I may be entitled to an opinion.