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EA2011 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
2011.
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 2011and beyond must give equal emphasis to
technology and business concerns.
In pursuit of this re-balancing, in 2009
and 2010 the 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.
EA2011 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
EA2011 Working Group. Join the BPM/SOA
Community of Practice here.
Subsequent calls are scheduled for 1:00PM
eastern time on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of
each month.
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