This document discusses establishing an enterprise architecture practice at a medium-sized corporation using the TOGAF framework. It outlines current challenges like rapidly changing business needs and a lack of architecture governance. It then defines what enterprise architecture is and why it is important to establish an EA practice to gain benefits like increased agility and reuse. The document recommends practical steps to get started, including selecting an EA framework and tool, customizing them to the organization, and implementing the practice incrementally. It emphasizes establishing principles, governance and stakeholder collaboration.
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Architecture Daljit Banger
Presentation to Metropolitan University (London) on the 16th Feb 2017.
The purpose of the session was to introduce core basic concepts around Enterprise Architecture and discuss the role of the Enterprise Architect .
The latest version of the TOGAF standard has special emphasis on Business Architecture, Digital Trends, and Business Transformation beyond IT. Stuart Macgregor takes us through some of these changes to the TOGAF® 9.2 standard and discuss how they will benefit us.
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
Enterprise Architecture Governance: A Framework for Successful BusinessNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise Architectures play an important role supporting business transformation initiatives. Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG) provides a structure for defining relevant strategies and compliance processes. This Level 3 Communications case study presents a detailed framework composed of three essential components of EAG:
1) Organizational Accountability must be clearly defi ned for all EAG aspects, and executive sponsorship is essential. Level 3 formed an executive steering committee with broad representation, preventing EAG from becoming an IT-only initiative.
2) Strategy Defi nition provides the roadmap for business transformation initiatives. Architectural guiding principles defi ne values and offer input into strategies, end states define where the company is going, and roadmaps document how to get there from.
3) Compliance Processes ensure that development initiatives are in alignment with the strategic direction. Level 3 has created a framework that gives each development initiative an architecture rating that indicates its compliance level.
The challenge of alignment, integration and change in the development of e-services has gave attention to enterprise architecture. It provide the framework of engagement and thinking tool to define, elaborate, document, agree and communicate the strategic baseline, strategic intent, strategic architecture, strategic change and strategic resources in the development and improvement of e-services within the defined context and perspectives of time, stakeholders, performance, funds, environment, leadership and technology. The shared open presentation is a product of direct engagement with people of decision and work who are enabled to participate the formulation of enterprise architecture that matters to their performance.
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
Principle 11 needs to go! by Ken France at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
The Principles in the Agile Manifesto provide us guidance on how to have an Agile mindset in our organizations. Principle 11 within the Manifesto states "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams". While this works well for autonomous teams, it proves to be challenging for large organizations with dozens or even hundreds of teams who need to share common architectures and design patterns.
This talk will present a case study of a large retail organization and explore their journey from a highly centralized/governance-based technology organization to a more distributed/collaborative one and explore their lessons learned and success/failure patterns along the way. In the end, we'll answer the question about whether or not Principle 11 scales!
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9281/principle-11-needs-to-go
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
What is the Value of Mature Enterprise Architecture TOGAFxavblai
Judith Jones received the Open Group award for Outstanding Contributions to the development of TOGAF 9 at 19th Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Chicago - July 21-23, 2008. Former CEO of Architecting the Enterprise which has been a member of The Open Group for 6 years, she is personnally involved since 1997. As an active member of The Open Group and she is a major contributor and an editor of TOGAF 7, 8 and 9 as well as leading TOGAF projects for localisation, case studies, ADML, synergy and collaboration projects.
http://www.opengroup.org/member/member-spotlight-jones.htm
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
Enterprise architecture management is a "management practice that establishes, maintains and uses a coherent set of guidelines, architecture principles and governance regimes that provide direction and practical help in the design and development of an enterprise's architecture to achieve its vision and strategy. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup Enterprise Architecture and Digital Architecture frameworks as well as a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- Need for Enterprise Architecture Management
- Enterprise Architecture Approach
- Architecture Target Picture Development
- Implementation Roadmap
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
This presentation was used to introduce Enterprise Architecture, Introduction to how to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment followed by TechSharp introduction.
Deliverables in the presentation is not clear, the slides represent what was shown as part of the demo.
List of deliverables:
Application Rationalization framework
Portfolio Analysis framework
Road Map
Current state analysis
Target State establishing process
System Context
System Landscape
Defining the business value proposition of EA and PPM
Eliminating project risks
Accelerating project execution
Managing project and architecture inter-dependencies
Delivering realized value
Improving collaboration of Architecture and PMO
During last few years, role of Enterprise Architecture has expanded from technical to strategic in an Organization. This slide deck presents: Using Enterprise Architecture in your Organization.
Enterprise Architecture Governance: A Framework for Successful BusinessNathaniel Palmer
Enterprise Architectures play an important role supporting business transformation initiatives. Enterprise Architecture Governance (EAG) provides a structure for defining relevant strategies and compliance processes. This Level 3 Communications case study presents a detailed framework composed of three essential components of EAG:
1) Organizational Accountability must be clearly defi ned for all EAG aspects, and executive sponsorship is essential. Level 3 formed an executive steering committee with broad representation, preventing EAG from becoming an IT-only initiative.
2) Strategy Defi nition provides the roadmap for business transformation initiatives. Architectural guiding principles defi ne values and offer input into strategies, end states define where the company is going, and roadmaps document how to get there from.
3) Compliance Processes ensure that development initiatives are in alignment with the strategic direction. Level 3 has created a framework that gives each development initiative an architecture rating that indicates its compliance level.
The challenge of alignment, integration and change in the development of e-services has gave attention to enterprise architecture. It provide the framework of engagement and thinking tool to define, elaborate, document, agree and communicate the strategic baseline, strategic intent, strategic architecture, strategic change and strategic resources in the development and improvement of e-services within the defined context and perspectives of time, stakeholders, performance, funds, environment, leadership and technology. The shared open presentation is a product of direct engagement with people of decision and work who are enabled to participate the formulation of enterprise architecture that matters to their performance.
Stepping-stones of enterprise-architecture: Process and practice in the real...Tetradian Consulting
What do we do when we’re doing enterprise architecture? What issues do we tackle, in what sequence, for what business reasons, for what business value? And how do we get results fast? This presentation describes how to adapt the Architectural Development Method (ADM) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) for use in all types of enterprise architecture - for IT and beyond - and at all architecture maturity-levels.
[Presentation at TOGAF Conference, London, April 2009. Applies to TOGAF versions 8.1 and 9. Copyright (c) Tetradian Consulting 2009]
Principle 11 needs to go! by Ken France at #AgileIndia2019Agile India
The Principles in the Agile Manifesto provide us guidance on how to have an Agile mindset in our organizations. Principle 11 within the Manifesto states "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams". While this works well for autonomous teams, it proves to be challenging for large organizations with dozens or even hundreds of teams who need to share common architectures and design patterns.
This talk will present a case study of a large retail organization and explore their journey from a highly centralized/governance-based technology organization to a more distributed/collaborative one and explore their lessons learned and success/failure patterns along the way. In the end, we'll answer the question about whether or not Principle 11 scales!
More details:
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/9281/principle-11-needs-to-go
Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org
“The organizing logic for business processes and IT infrastructure reflecting the integration and standardization requirements of the firm’s operating model.” [1]
“A conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization. The intent of an enterprise architecture is to determine how an organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives.”[2]
Many organizations engage in initiatives to develop elaborate reference architectures, patterns and governance processes in an attempt to optimize their enterprise. They put significant effort into the upfront guidance of development teams, and then find themselves challenged to understand how closely an architecture matches the approved approach after the projects complete. Organizations must take a new approach to this problem!
Supporting material for my Webinar to the ACS - June2017Daljit Banger
The attached slide deck was used to Support a webinar for the Australian Computer Society (Queensland) on June 1st 2017.
Some previously used slides with modified content and some additional slides to support the webinar theme
Full Webinar Video can be seen at https://youtu.be/_41-izCm5rw
Conig® v1.5 Converged Information GovernanceYalcin Gerek
CONIG® (Converged Information Governance) is a governance framework developed by TAC A.S. addressing information and related technologies. Its main focus is INFORMATION. CONIG® is based on models that are widely used for Information Technologies, Corporate Governance as well as Business Governance.
Sabrion has a highly qualified team of retail/manufacturing process experts and IT consultants, supporting both short and long-term needs. Our FastForward implementation methodology to support PLM and Merchandise planning.
Project Management
PMI – Project Management Institute
PMBOK – Project Management Body of Knowledge
Agile – We utilize Agile, Scrum, and Extreme methodologies when appropriate
We are flexible to embrace the methodologies used by our customers an business partners
Retail/Manufacturing Business Process Re – Engineering
As-Is and To-Be Modeling, SIPOC, RACI, Impact Analysis, Standard Operating Procedures
Application Design, Development and Integration
UML – Unified Modeling Language
Open Internet and Standards, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Javascript, Web Frameworks
Application Architecture
Application Infrastructure Design – Virtualization, Cloud, Application Servers, Storage, Web DMZ
Global Network Design – LAN, WAN, MPLS, Reverse Proxy, CDN
Deployment Architecture – Dev, QA, Staging, Production
Comparing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices and Service-Based Architecture (SBA - SOA and Microservices Hybrid) patterns.
Also discussing coupling and cohesion concepts in relation to the systems design.
Very useful set of TOGAF-related diagrams from the Orbus Software.
TOGAF®9.1 is an Architecture Framework which has been developed by the Open Group to provide the methods and tools
for assisting in the acceptance, production, use and maintenance of an Enterprise Architecture.
Agile Architecture And The Role Of The Architect In The Agile TeamMichael Sukachev
An attempt to define a role of the Agile Architect including responsibilities and interaction with Agile Teams.
Inspired by ideas from the agilemodeling.com
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Imp...Michael Sukachev
In this document, private information (PI) handling rules for software systems are based on the PIPEDA principles and guide analysis.
It's recommended to include these rules as high-level requirements to any framework that implements privacy-by-design principals in Canada.
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is the federal privacy law for private-sector organizations in Canada. It sets out the ground rules for how businesses must handle personal information in the course of commercial activity.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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2. Agenda
• Current challenges
• Enterprise Architecture - overview
• The desired state – end goal
• Practical steps – how do we get “there”
3. • Significant Business Growth Expected
– New OEMs
– New banks/financial institutions
integrations
– Integration with other 3rd party service
providers
– New subscription based
products/services/add-ons
Current Challenges
4. Current Challenges
Current
Architecture
Planning
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Architecture
Dom
ains
Level
Bredth
Business
Data
Technology
Application
Enterprise Vision & Architecture Definition
EnterpriseLevelInitiatives
Business Capability Vision &
Architecture Definition
BusinessCapability
LevelInitiatives
Architecture
Dom
ains
Level
Bredth
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Product
Vision &
Arch.
Definition
Business
Data
Technology
Application
5. Current Challenges
• Rapidly Evolving Business Capabilities, Aggressive Implementation
Timelines -> Growing projects queue, Complex Project Management, Limited
ability to extract common requirements for reusable solutions, Delays in providing
business capabilities, Affected revenue
• Capabilities development is DRIVEN by resource availability –>
Delays in providing business capabilities; Limited ability to extract common
requirements for reusable solutions, Affected revenue, Long term cost
• Lack of architecture governance –> Independently evolving architectures for
Retail and Enterprise Development products –>
Competing data and functionality, Limited impact and risk analysis; Limited
emerging technologies adaptability, Increased short and long term cost
• Lack of traceability between business goals capabilities applications
functionality information and data flow IT infrastructure –>
Non-transparent ROI, Impacted products integrity and quality, Increased long
term cost
6. Current Challenges cont’d
• Inconsistent Platforms and Technologies
• Unmanageable and Redundant Legacy Systems
• Limited Documentation for Legacy and New Systems
7. What is EA?
• If the Corporation is A Bowling Alley …
• Pins - Solutions that Corporation provides to its
Clients…
• What Would Be A Ball?
– Hint: Objective Is Obvious - Knock Down Maximum Pins With One Ball
8. What is EA? cont’d
• The ball is a set of projects that are strategically
picked to meet as much as possible objectives
within a single effort
• Getting the most benefits from the effort = Effectiveness
= Better ROI
• To identify that set of projects we need first to
understand:
– Current and planned Business Capacities and Processes
– Current and planned state of Applications Functionality
– Current and planned state of IT Infrastructure
– Relations between all of them
9. What is EA? cont’d
• We are NOT talking about rocket science
• We ARE talking about:
– Using common sense
– Being systematic
– Avoiding misunderstandings
– Knowing what we are doing before we start
– Knowing why we are doing it
– Learning from the best practice of others
– Talking to business users in business terms
– Documenting only relevant information, but not less
then that
– Using common sense
10. Why EA?
• Architected business information systems
will have:
– A greater ability to respond to new demands
– A greater business value to the organization
– A greater ability to use new technology
– A faster, simpler and cheaper procurement
process
– The ability to support a faster time-to-market
11. To support a faster time-to-market by
• Creating a common language and repeatable
process
• Storing knowledge and re-useable facts
• Re-use promotes continual quality
• Re-use avoids rework
• Surprising reuse savings
• Managing business and technical complexity
• Tracing impacts across many projects
• Collaborating with many stakeholder views in
one repository
Why EA?
12. • What makes that bowling ball to roll the most
efficient way?
Why EA?
Enterprise Architecture Practice
14. What’s in EA Scope
What:
• Create Business and Technical
Reference Models - Taxonomy
• Establish rules to record what,
where, when, how, who and WHY
Why:
• Creates a single vocabulary and
terminology
• Creates a library of reusable building
blocks
• Avoids redundant functions = Less
rework
• Point of order/sanity in the chaos
agile environment
• Enables cost effective solutioning
and development
15. What’s in EA Scope
What:
• Defining Stakeholders
• Defining a Viewpoint for each
Stakeholder- set of Stakeholder’s
concerns
• Defining Views – artifacts that
address a concerns of the specific
Stakeholder (Viewpoint)
Why:
• To avoid producing a document for a
sake of documentation, all produced
artefacts should serve the purpose
• To make the whole effort cost effective
and easy in implementation.
• To assess the change impact effectively
in future product iterations
16. What’s in EA Scope
What:
• Model Corporate Knowledge using a
managed discipline
• Create full Traceability through
business goals business
capabilities applications
functionality information and data
flow IT infrastructure
Why:
• Transparent ROI
• Better adaptability for changes driven
by business and technology =
Corporate Agility
• Provides all necessary information for
better decision making
• Results in products integrity and quality
• Enables cost effective solutioning and
development
17. What’s in EA Scope
What:
• Establish architecture governance
process
• Architecture Review Board
Why:
• Guards enterprise sanity in the agile
reality
• Ensures the best quality of solutions and
proper risk assessment
• Keep solutions aligned with enterprise
goals and architecture
• Provides ability to catch mistakes at the
early stages
• Provides forum for ideas/ knowledge
exchange
• Avoids unnecessary rework and financial
loss
• Results in products integrity and quality
• Enables cost effective solutioning and
development
18. What’s in EA Scope
What:
• Current and Target Business Architectures =
Business Capabilities/Products Roadmap
• Current and Target Applications and
Information/Data Architectures =
Application/Systems Roadmap
• Current and Target Technology Architectures =
IT Infrastructure Roadmap
• All roadmaps include transitional stages to
meet intermediate objectives
Why:
• Iterative approach will ensure goals
achievement through meeting all planned
objectives
• All together = the realistic strategic plan
based on clear logical decisions
• To reiterate the main rule of the EA practice –
It all should make sense
20. Steps to establish EA
• Treat establishing of the EA practice as an internal project and
onboard it with the PMO.
• Identify EA evolved business and technical SMEs, their roles and
responsibilities
• Create a list of concerns to focus
• Plan communication methods
• Develop change impact/risk assessment methodology
• Establish and Agree on Principles, Standards and Governance
• Choose an EA Framework
• Choose a tool to model and populate EA Asset Repository
• Incorporate an EA practice into current project management
methodology in close collaboration with the PMO
• Enforce architectural control
– Establish Architecture Review Board (ARB) to implement principles and
standards by constraining a new development.
• Establish Incremental EA model development method
– It’s not realistic to make all the work at once.
21. EA Framework and Model
Development Method
TOGAF Architecture
Development Method -
uses a step-by-step
approach to create a
method for developing
Enterprise Architecture and
helping to establish a
framework.
The ADM is an iterative
process, not only as the
whole process but also
between and within phases.
22. TOGAF ADM
• Highly customizable method
• Can be applied to any enterprise task/change
• Each step has a comprehensive set of deliverables
that is customizable based on needs
• PMI and Agile compatible
• Results in
• an organization-specific architecture
• more reusable building block assets
• Each iteration becomes easier and has more reusable
building blocks to use
• Increases CMM to Level 3 after successful completion of
one full iteration.
24. Zachman (1987) notes several advantages of his framework:
•Improving professional communications within the information systems
community.
•Understanding the reasons for and risks of not developing any one
architectural representation.
•Placing a wide variety of tools and/or methodologies in relation to one
another.
•Developing improved approaches (including methodologies and tools)
to produce each of the architectural representations, as well as possibly
rethinking the nature of the classic “application development process” as
we know it today.
•In addition to all above, Zachman Framework is highly customizable
and can be applied to various enterprise architectures
Advantages of Zachman Framework
25. A good modeling tool must support Deliverables, Artefacts and Building
Blocks
AvailableTool – Sparx EA
Provide Knowledge management & re-use
• Support the visual modeling of facts
• Support stakeholder and role views
• Generate documents, reports, diagrams &
matrices
• Accelerate sharing and collaboration
• Provide Baseline changes to manage
requirements
•Trace Requirements from business to
implementation
• Be easy to use and customize for your
project
• Support Industry Open Standards &
Frameworks
• Be highly scalable for enterprise teams
• Be Affordable and widely used
26. • Ensure governance across all projects
• Think Big - robust, scalable, secured, reusable
• Start Small - scale up while accumulating
expertise
• Move Fast – cross-train staff, design and build in
iterations
• Build out enterprise business services aligned
with stakeholders strategic plan
• Develop and adhere to a reference architectures,
frameworks and open standards up front
“EA set of mind”
27. • Creates a common language and repeatable
process
• Collaborate with many stakeholder views in
one repository
• Store knowledge and re-useable facts
• Manage business and technical complexity
• Trace impacts across many projects
• Re-use promotes continual quality
• Re-use avoids rework
• Surprising reuse savings
• It all makes sense
Reiterating EA Benefits
28. Next Steps
• Get Support from the Leadership group for the
EA initiative.
• Establish EA Team.
• Establish EA principles and standards.
• Tailor SCI EA Framework in more details
• Define deliverables for each step in the ADM
• Customize Zachman framework
• Customize deliverables templates
• Communicate all the aspect to the company
• Start implementing EA practice in every new
development
and get the ball rolling…