http://slashdemocracy.org/links EA and more en John Gotze john@slashdmeocracy.org webmaster@slashdemocracy.org http://slashdemocracy.org/gotzelinked.jpg http://slashdemocracy.org/links/ Enterprise Architecture (EA) needs to evolve to better support more agile and innovative approaches to corporate challenges, a noted author and IT researcher told attendees at The Open Group Conference this week in Boston, MA - that means going beyond documenting the "as-is" state of the enterprise, and providing new guidance that helps transform the business. This trend will see the move of enterprise architecture from the IT side to the business side, said Jeanne Ross, author of "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" and "IT Savvy." It will prefigure a change of EA as it was formerly established, she suggested. http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid26_gci1517057,00.html Enterprise_Architecture John Seddon: A real story of a curious public sector leader, a pugilist and a contrarian, who chose to do the right thing and design his system entirely around the needs of the customer - against the advice of inspectors. What happened? Costs fell, morale soared and best practice got better. http://www.managementexchange.com/story/forget-your-people-%E2%80%93-real-leaders-act-system Management Most enterprise architecture (EA) initiatives remain trapped in the IT department, and a new approach – hybrid thinking – is required to break EA out and into the wider organisation, according to Gartner, Inc. Adopting hybrid thinking is an excellent way to meld design thinking, IT thinking and business thinking, and achieve transformative, innovative and strategic changes. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1368613 Strategy Podcast with Tarak Modi, an industry thought leader in IT transformation and modernization technology such as enterprise architecture, SOA and cloud computing. In this podcast, we discuss the role of enterprise architecture within the federal government. http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/2010/04/ea_in_the_government_follow_th.php Enterprise_Architecture Brian Burke , 16 April 2010: Developing an enterprise architecture can help organisations respond to change better and more quickly - and more cheaply. But different organisations require varying approaches to enterprise architecture and often need to employ a combination of methods argues Brian Burke, research vice president at analyst group Gartner. http://www.silicon.com/technology/hardware/2010/04/16/the-right-approach-to-developing-enterprise-architecture-39745714/ Enterprise_Architecture John Wu: This is part of the research for an Organic Enterprise Architecture. Coherent Architecture is the effort to do the right architecture for the right people on the right area at the right time. The Organic EA consist of the static part of principle and primitives and the dynamic part of Coherent Architecture to adapt change by rearranging the fundamental enterprise primitives and building blocks. The area in yellow color illustrate the Coherent Architecture which include the diagnosis part on business performance measurement and gap analysis the other part is the segment architecture to close the business performance gap. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lea-blog/the-coherent-architecture-in-organic-ea-37844 Enterprise_Architecture Fuchs-Kittowski, F.; Faust, D.: The design and evolution of an enterprise architecture (EA) is a challenging and complex task. A participative approach to collaborative EA management is needed to support the collaboration of all individuals involved in the process of EA design and evolution. This paper presents our concept of a semantic collaboration tool for collaborative EA management. This includes the concept of a semantic, wiki-like collaboration tool for collaborative EA management and an EA ontology as a formal representation of the EA. Additionally, the prototypical implementation of the semantic collaboration environment and its architecture are described and the benefits of the approach discussed. http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-119304.html Enterprise_Architecture FEA Reference Models include the Consolidated Reference Model Version 2.3 and Data Reference Model 2.0. FY10 FEA Reference Model Mapping Quick Guide. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ Reference_Models In developing the AGA we have adapted an established and proven framework based on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) developed by the United States Government. This framework is being used in a number of other countries and some state governments in Australia. The framework and these reference models have been endorsed by the Australian Government’s Chief Information Officers’ Committee. http://www.finance.gov.au/e-government/strategy-and-governance/aga-rm/AGA-RM.html Reference_Models Tom Graves: Courtesy of a link by fellow enterprise-architect Sally Bean, I've just spent the past couple of hours viewing and then reviewing an online seminar on complexity by one of the thought-leaders on complexity-theory and practice, Dave Snowden. http://weblog.tomgraves.org/index.php/2010/02/19/complexity-chaos-and-ea/ Enterprise_Architecture Janne J. Korhonen: In this series of blog posts, I have addressed some of the challenges that the emergence of extended enterprise paradigm entails in terms of strategy, governance, leadership, and, in this last article, enterprise architecture. http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/agile_enterprise/2010/01/challenges-for-the-decade-part-4-enterprise-architecture.php Enterprise_Architecture As a community service objectarchitects offers a free short book on what an entprise architect can expect from TOGAF 9. Wolfang Keller. http://www.objectarchitects.biz/TOGAF9/TOGAF9Quickstart.html Enterprise_Architecture The book introduces the idea of Coherency Management, and asserts that this is the primary outcome goal of an enterprise's architecture. With submissions from over 30 authors and co-authors, the book reinforces the idea that EA is being practiced in an ever-increasing variety of circumstances - from the tactical to the strategic, from the technical to the political, and with governance that ranges from sell to tell. The characteristics, usages, value statements, frameworks, rules, tools and countless other attributes of EA seem to be anything but orderly, definable, classifiable, and understandable as might be hoped given heritage of EA and the famous framework and seminal article on the subject by John Zachman over two decades ago. Notably, EA is viewed as an Enterprise Design and Management approach, adopted to build better enterprises, rather than a IT Design and Management approach limited to build better systems. http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1438996063 Strategy Boris Lublinsky: In his new post - A Value Proposition for Enterprise Architecture - Richard Veryard discusses the role of enterprise architecture (EA). http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/value Enterprise_Architecture Mark McDonald, Gartner Group: People talk about the ‘enterprise’ all the time, particularly in IT. There are enterprise solutions, enterprise architecture, enterprise portals, enterprise security, etc. In this context the term enterprise is more often meant to mean all encompassing, across business units or geographies, the whole of our business operations. Just because we say something is enterprise level that does not mean that it applies to the entire company. When that happens you have to ask yourself the question - are we an enterprise? http://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2009/06/15/is-your-company-an-enterprise-the-answer-matters/ Enterprise_Architecture To help bridge the gap between engineering, IT and management, Griffith University has created a new Masters program. The Master of Enterprise Architecture unites MBA and Masters of IT courses into a single degree. Enterprise Architecture at Griffith provides a comprehensive, modern postgraduate education in the principles and practice of Enterprise Architecture, a discipline unifying management and engineering knowledge. An Enterprise Architect has good understanding of strategy making and how strategies can be successfully implemented through a coordinated practice that harmonises business needs with the development of technology and the development of the organisation. Graduates will gain skills in analysis, problem solving, business modelling and systems architecture – both from information technology and business perspectives, as well as skills in change management, leadership and communication. http://www.griffith.edu.au/engineering-information-technology/enterprise-architecture Enterprise_Architecture JISC has funded four projects to investigate an enterprise architecture approach to service oriented development at institutional level through the application and evaluation of The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). This initiative is funded as part of the e-Learning Capital Programme building on the e-Framework aspects of the programme. It is recognised that enterprise architecture has a wider applicability than e-Learning and therefore this initiative aims to address institutional architecture rather than just that of e-Learning. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/enterprisearchitectures Enterprise_Architecture Roderick Lim Banda: Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an evolving discipline. There is a need for ongoing research to ensure that we keep up with global trends. More importantly we need to gain a better understanding of our own local context in order to develop the architecture of the South African and African enterprise. http://www.cioforum.co.za/publiccioforum/topic_012.htm Enterprise_Architecture Konstantin Ivanov, ARIS BPM Blog: Take it or leave it, but often EA is referred as a lengthy initiative with very unclear and practically not very applicable results. Like a set of references architectures, which in practice turn to be 80% different from architectures of actually deployed solutions or a set of principles of building new data centers, which are too high-level and theoretical, so any solution built do comply with them. http://www.ariscommunity.com/users/koiv/2009-06-14-why-companies-do-need-enterprise-architecture-downturn Enterprise_Architecture Enterprise governance of information technology is a relatively new concept that is gaining traction in both the academic and practitioner worlds. Going well beyond the implementation of a superior IT infrastructure, “Enterprise Governance of Information Technology” is about defining and embedding processes and structures throughout the organizations that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities, while maximizing the value created from their IT-enabled investments. At the forefront of the field, the authors draw from years of research and advising corporate clients to present the first comprehensive resource on the topic. Featuring numerous case examples from companies around the world, the book integrates theoretical advances and empirical data with practical application, including in-depth discussion of such frameworks as COBIT and VALIT, which are used to measure and audit the value of IT investments and ensuring regulatory compliance. A variety of elements, including executive summaries and sidebars, extensive references, and questions and activities (with additional materials available on-line) ensure that the book will be an essential resource for professionals, researchers, and students alike. http://slashdemocracy.org/book/0387848819 IT_Governance Radical and hopeful - Presence synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. A book built around a series of wide-ranging conversations over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it - as it is and as it might be. Presence explores the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that services the whole - ourselves, our organizations and the communities of which we are a part. http://slashdemocracy.org/book/1857883551 Change_Management Architecture descriptions are formal descriptions of an information system, organized in a way that supports reasoning about the structural and behavioral properties of the system and its evolution. They define the components or building blocks that make up the overall information system, and provide a plan from which products can be procured, and subsystems developed, that will work together to implement the overall system. It thus enables you to manage your overall IT investment in a way that meets the needs of your business. To provide a uniform representation for such architecture descriptions, the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language has been developed. It offers an integrated architectural approach that describes and visualizes the different architecture domains and their underlying relations and dependencies. In a short time, ArchiMate has become the open standard for architecture modeling in the Netherlands, it is also fairly well known in the international enterprise architecture community, and recently it has been brought under the aegis of The Open Group. http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/ Enterprise_Architecture Press Announcement April 21, 2009: New Standard Paves the Way for First Truly Global Enterprise Architecture Description Language. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced that it has adopted ArchiMate version 1 as a standard global language for modeling enterprise architectures, including the industry standard architecture framework, TOGAF. Administered by The Open Group's ArchiMate Forum, ArchiMate 1.0 is a new language designed to provide enterprise architects a common vocabulary for describing, analyzing and visualizing enterprise architectures. By creating a single, common language, the ArchiMate Forum intends to help simplify the processes used within the enterprise architecture community for more effective work outcomes, as well as improve architecture tools offered by vendors. http://www.opengroup.org/press/21apr09.htm Enterprise_Architecture PROMIS Solutions develops and delivers EVA (Enterprise Value Architect) Net-modeler, an innovative, web-based and collaborative product, widely known by its previous brand name Archi. EVA Netmodeler was sold, in North America, as EA WebModeler. http://www.pro-mis.com/ EA_Tools_and_Repositories Over the past two decades, the government sector has emerged as the area of largest implementation of enterprise architecture - a critical success factor for all types, scales, and intensities of e-government programs. Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture is a seminal publication in the emerging and evolving discipline of enterprise architecture (EA). Presenting current developments, issues, and trends in EA, this critical resource provides IT managers, government CIOs, researchers, educators, and professionals with insights into the impact of effective EA on IT governance, IT portfolio management, and IT outsourcing, creating a must-have holding for academic libraries and organizational information centers. http://slashdemocracy.org/book/160566068X Government_EA