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EA2010 Working Group - a group of
"street-smart" enterprise
architecture practitioners - has been actively
discussing the domains, services, practices
and skills required for a thriving, business
relevant enterprise architecture practice in
the 2010s.
The major domains we identified are:
technology architecture; business
architecture; projects alignment; delivery;
operations and measurement; and governance and
enterprise architecture management.
A critical finding of the group discussion
is the emphasis of technology concerns at the
expense of business understanding, and
ultimately, true business enablement, in most
enterprise architecture practices today.
Successful enterprise architecture practices
in the 2010s must give equal emphasis to
technology and business concerns.
In pursuit of this re-balancing, in 2009
the EA2010 team pursued a line of discussion
and research on the purpose, practices and
realities of expanding, or in some cases
starting, business architecture practices.
This work stream culminated in the publication
of an
EA2010 Business Architecture whitepaper.
Starting in June 2010, EA2010 will pursue a
new line of discussions and research focusing
on the business aspects of successful
enterprise architecture practices. Items for
discussion include:
- Establishing and sustaining credibility
with business and IT constituents
- Business Outcome rather than Business
Model alignment
- Injecting financial measurement and
decision-making acumen into EA
- Catalyzing a business architecture
practice
All members of the BPM/SOA Community of
Practice are welcome to participate in the
EA2010 Working Group. The re-start call is
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 1:00 PM ET.
Subsequent calls are scheduled for 1:00PM
eastern time on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of
each month.
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EA2010 Working Group
Calls Regular calls take place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of
each month from 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET. This working group call is open
to all BPM / SOA
Community of Practice members.
How to get
involved
If you are interested in getting involved
with this group, want more information or would
like to come as a guest to an upcoming meeting,
please contact Becky
Higgins.
Upcoming Calls
Once registered you will receive an
email confirming your registration with information
you need to join the Webinar.
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Since our restart on June 23,
2010, we've had great conversations on the role,
value and core practices of enterprise
architecture in respect to business-IT synergy,
business planning, optimization and innovation.
On our August 11, 2010 call,
we'd like to discuss the next deliverable for
the EA2010 team. Our most recent deliverable, a
discussion-oriented paper on Business
Architecture, is available here: http://www.soa-consortium.org/EA2010.htm
Given the positive response to
our first paper, we propose continuing with a
series of Enterprise Architecture relevant
discussion-oriented whitepapers. Based on the
energy and direction of our conversation to
date, we have identified the discussion topics
for the first two papers.
The first paper, and topic to
be explored, is "Conveying the Business
Value of Enterprise Architecture to Business and
IT constituents". This paper should be a
collection of practices, tips, artifacts and
anecdotes of things that worked, and didn't
work, in talking EA value and contribution, and
achieving buy-in (investment).
The second paper, and topic to
be explored, is "Evolving Enterprise
Architecture from Optimization to
Innovation".
On our next call, tomorrow at
1:00PM ET, we will seek input on the above and
outline a plan of attack.
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