Lean integration : an integration factory approach to business agility

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, John G., Author.

Contributor:

Lyle, David, 1964- Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factory management.

Production management.

Business logistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Addison Wesley 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

“ Lean Integration is an excellent resource for anyone struggling with the challenges of performing integration for a complex enterprise.” –Steve J. Dennis, Integration Competency Center Director, Nike Use Lean Techniques to Integrate Enterprise Systems Faster, with Far Less Cost and Risk By some estimates, 40 percent of IT budgets are devoted to integration. However, most organizations still attack integration on a project-by-project basis, causing unnecessary expense, waste, risk, and delay. They struggle with integration “hairballs”: complex point-to-point information exchanges that are expensive to maintain, difficult to change, and unpredictable in operation. The solution is Lean Integration. This book demonstrates how to use proven “lean” techniques to take control over the entire integration process. John Schmidt and David Lyle show how to establish “integration factories” that leverage the powerful benefits of repeatability and continuous improvement across every integration project you undertake. Drawing on their immense experience, Schmidt and Lyle bring together best practices; solid management principles; and specific, measurable actions for streamlining integration development and maintenance. Whether you’re an IT manager, project leader, architect, analyst, or developer, this book will help you systematically improve the way you integrate–adding value that is both substantial and sustainable. Coverage includes Treating integration as a business strategy and implementing management disciplines that systematically address its people, process, policy, and technology dimensions Providing maximum business flexibility and supporting rapid change without compromising stability, quality, control, or efficiency Applying improvements incrementally without “Boiling the Ocean” Automating processes so you can deliver IT solutions faster–while avoiding the pitfalls of automation Building in both data and integration quality up front, rather than inspecting quality in later More than a dozen in-depth case studies that show how real organizations are applying Lean Integration practices and the lessons they’ve learned Visit integrationfactory.com for additional resources, including more case studies, best practices, templates, software demos, and reference links, plus a direct connection to lean integration practitioners worldwide.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Part I: Executive Summary

Chapter 1 What Is Lean Integration and Why Is It Important?

Constant Rapid Change and Organizational Agility

The Case for Lean Integration

What Is Integration?

Integration Maturity Levels

Economies of Scale (the Integration Market)

Getting Started: Incremental Implementation without "Boiling the Ocean"

Chapter 2 A Brief History of Lean

The Lean System

The Lean Practices

Lean Application Trends

Case Study: The Value of Lean in Service Industries

Chapter 3 The Integration Factory

What Is an Integration Factory?

The Integration Factory as an Element of an ICC

How Does the Integration Factory Work?

Integration Factories as Self-Service ICCs

Part II: Applying Lean Principles

Chapter 4 Focus on the Customer and Eliminate Waste

Focus on the Customer

Integration Wastes

Case Study: Waste Elimination at Clicks-and-Bricks

Case Study: Waste Elimination at Big Bank

Focus on the Integration Value Chain

Chapter 5 Continuously Improve

Continuous Learning and Knowledge Management

Case Study: Continuous Improvement at Clicks-and-Bricks

Chapter 6 Empower the Team

What Is a Team?

Examples of Empowered Teams in Software

Creating an Empowered Lean Integration Team

Leadership and Vision

Important Practices That Help Enable Empowered Teams

Organizing the Team: Thoughts on Organizational Structures

Case Study: Smith & Nephew-Integrating Lean Principles with Data Quality

Chapter 7 Optimize the Whole

Optimize the Whole Rather than Optimize the Parts

What Is "the Whole"? An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping

Selecting Metrics to Optimize the Whole

Chapter 8 Plan for Change and Mass-Customize.

Techniques for Enabling Constant Change

Mass Customization

Case Study: Using Mass Customization

Chapter 9 Automate Processes and Deliver Fast

Pitfalls of Automation-Building "Stuff" Faster

Delivering Fast

Automating Processes-Using the Computer to Make Complexity Manageable

Case Study: Automating Processes at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Chapter 10 Build Quality In

Two Areas of Quality: Data Quality and Integration Quality

Quality Evolution and Lean

Data Quality

Integration Quality

Case Study: Building Quality In at a Utility Company ICC

Part III: Implementation Practices

Chapter 11 Financial Management

Challenges

Activities

Business Case Development

Case Study: A "Creating the Wave" Investment Strategy

Case Study: Enterprise Data Warehouse Rationalization Business Case

Chargeback Accounting

Chargeback Case Studies

Chapter 12 Integration Methodology

Agile versus Lean Methodology

Case Study in Simplicity: The Architecture of the Web and REST versus SOA

Engagement Services Management

Case Study: Integration Methodology in a Decentralized Enterprise

Chapter 13 Metadata Management

Metadata Scope for Lean Integration

Metadata Management Framework

Prerequisites

Industry Practices

Chapter 14 Information Architecture

Methodology

Information Architecture Models

Data at Rest

Chapter 15 Business Process Management

Data-in-Motion Models

Architecture

Case Study: The Post Closing Systems Architecture

Chapter 16 Modeling Management

Service-Oriented Architecture Can Create a New Hairball

Coupling and Cohesion Framework

Canonical Modeling Techniques

Navigating the Modeling Layers

Activities.

Case Study: European Interoperability Framework

Case Study: Object-Relational Mismatch

Chapter 17 Integration Systems

What Is an Integration System?

Integration Systems Taxonomy

Portfolio Rationalization

Appendix A: Lean Terminology

Appendix B: Integration Laws

Law #1: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Law #2: There Is No End State

Law #3: There Are No Universal Standards

Law #4: Information Adapts to Meet Local Needs

Law #5: All Details Are Relevant

Appendix C: Glossary

Common Acronyms

Definitions.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9786612568909

9780321712394

0321712390

9781282568907

1282568906

9780321712387

0321712382

OCLC:

1027167296