I have decided to initiate a project dealing with open source enterprise architecture (#OSEA on twitter) since I find the concept of having your architecture exposed to various stakeholders outside the boundaries of the enterprise interesting. I have found some literature on managing IT architecture across several different organizations, but it doesn’t deal with the most important aspect of enterprise architecture which is the social aspect.
The focus of the first part of the project is to conduct a literature survey, that will be crystalized into a paper that explores the potentialities of Open Source EA.
I have dedicated the blog OpenSourceEA.com for the project and if you’re interested in the further development of the OSEA project you can gain further information there.