How are Enterprise Architecture Design Principles Used?

Most agree that enterprise architecture (EA) arti-facts include not only representation models, but also design principles [35]. While EA modeling and EA models are covered broadly in the EA state-of-the-art, design activity issues and design principles in particular are still neglected. While there has been some work on EA principles recently, their use has not been systematically surveyed so far. This is surprising be-cause EA principles play an important role in practice. Based on a review of the state-of-the-art of EA principle understand-ing, we summarize findings from a survey among 70 partici-pants from Swiss and German companies...