For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Global Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment Tool  (186 KB XLS)

by Jost Hoppermann, November 5, 2009

Forrester's Global Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment Tool is an interactive tool designed to help enterprise architecture professionals identify their global EA initiative's probability of success. The tool bases this assessment on an organization's . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Establishing EA Governance Models  (1.5 MB PPT)

by Jeff Scott, January 5, 2009

This is a workbook on establishing EA governance models.

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Avoid The EA Governance Versus Agility Trap

Altering Your View Of EA Governance Won't Result In Chaos

by Henry Peyret, September 15, 2008

Enterprise architects often encounter resistance to architecture governance from project-focused staff who argue that governance hinders agility. But this argument confuses project-level freedom with organizational agility. True enterprise-level agility . . .

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Architecting In The Zone

Build Architecture Zones To Create Structured Flexibility

by Jeff Scott, September 15, 2008

Industry consolidation and globalization demand increasingly complex and varied IT solutions. In this taxing environment, one-size-fits-all EA approaches cannot satisfy business needs for flexibility, adaptability, and innovation. Architects using this . . .

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A Practical Definition Of "SOA Policy"

Reconciling Divergent Industry Perspectives On "Policy"

by Randy Heffner, August 26, 2008

As service-oriented architecture (SOA) matures in the marketplace, SOA policy management will become an increasingly important aspect of SOA-based business and technical flexibility. However, the term "SOA policy" is, at best, ambiguous. At least three . . .

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A Taxonomy Of Event Processing For Enterprise Architects

Many Forms Of Event Processing Are Becoming Hot; Guide Your Team By Understanding Them

by Charles Brett, August 18, 2008

IT professionals — and increasingly business users, as well — commonly use terms such as event processing, business event management, complex event processing, and various other similar expressions. But confusion about what each represents is rife, in . . .

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Case Study: PNC's Secret To EA Success? A Strong Customer Focus

How One Company Achieves And Measures EA Effectiveness In A Federated IT Environment

by Jeff Scott, Katie Smillie, August 1, 2008

When The PNC Financial Services Group created a central enterprise architecture (EA) program nearly three years ago, it sought to build the team's success from the inside out, creating a small, central team as well as a formal structure of distributed . . .

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Best Practices: Improving EA Effectiveness

Customer Focus, EA Skills, And Delivering Value Are Key

by Jeff Scott, August 1, 2008

Creating an effective enterprise architecture (EA) practice is challenging and frequently elusive for EA teams. Architecture initiatives require broad organizational support just to get started and, once started, often have long investment cycles. Small . . .

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Defining SOA Service Life-Cycle Management

Understanding A Core SOA Governance Process

by Larry Fulton, January 24, 2008

The objective of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance is to ensure that an SOA strategy delivers maximum value and SOA service life-cycle management is a fundamental SOA governance activity. The three processes within life-cycle management — . . .

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Role Overview: The Enterprise Architecture Professional In 2007

by Gene Leganza, Larry Fulton, May 11, 2007

In 2007, enterprise architects face the ongoing issues of defining technology strategy and improving the overall effectiveness of enterprise architecture (EA) processes, but the imperative to merge technology and business strategy brings new challenges. . . .

Topic Overview: Government Enterprise Architecture

by Gene Leganza, April 24, 2006

As government executives grow increasingly concerned about cutting operations and maintenance costs, as well as transforming their service delivery models, agency CIOs are leveraging enterprise architecture (EA) to reduce redundancy and deliver technology-enabled . . .

Topic Overview: Enterprise Architecture

by Alex Cullen, Gene Leganza, March 28, 2006

As businesses focus on top- and bottom-line growth (and as IT becomes integral to this growth), IT departments are turning to enterprise architecture (EA) to best advance objectives ranging from operational efficiency to delivering IT-enabled business . . .

Case Study: Defining And Establishing An Architecture Process

by Jost Hoppermann, Gene Leganza, September 16, 2003

An organization beginning an enterprise architecture (EA) initiative or overhauling a previous effort that was not fully realized must move quickly to establish an authoritative EA presence.

Enterprise Architecture Evaluation Scorecard: Processes

by Gene Leganza, March 21, 2003

Enterprise architecture programs have an impact on the organization through their processes. To be effective, architecture processes must engage people with the appropriate technical skills from relevant political divisions in a timely fashion.

The Pillars of Enterprise Architecture Terminology

by Randy Heffner, November 11, 2002

In their architecture diagrams and terminology, architects should give prominent position to four core architecture domains and seven layers that are the pillars upon which the rest of an enterprise architecture is built.