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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA-PMO Partnership Cultivates Innovation Opportunities

The next-generation project management office (PMO) adds to the traditional PMO skill set of managing demand, providing oversight, and ensuring compliance by innovating through new practices and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Use Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit To Advance Your EA Program

Materials To Implement A Scalable Project Architecture Review Process

Project architecture review is an essential practice EA teams should use to advance enterprise architecture strategies. A well-designed and transparent review process provides a counterbalance to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Project Review Questionnaire — Sample Forms

This workbook contains several sample forms for capturing information about projects as part of an overall architecture review process. They represent several variations and styles and are based on a...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Measure EA's Business Goals, Engagement, And Influence

Metrics: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the metrics for enterprise architecture (EA) impact of Forrester's solution for EA executives building a high-performance EA program. Developing and executing a metrics and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Process Description

This presentation describes a scalable architecture review process. Its characteristics are typical of a second- or even third-generation process used in a medium or large IT shop. EAs should...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Samples And Templates

This workbook is part of the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit" collection, a companion to the "Solution Architecture Tool Kit: Overview" PowerPoint deck. It includes samples and templates for...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Transform EA Resources, Relationships, Processes, And Foundations

Assessment Framework: The EA Practice Playbook

This report outlines the assessment framework of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on creating a high-performance EA practice. A high-performance EA practice is...

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Report:Develop A Business-Centered Enterprise Architecture That Boosts Agility

Executive Overview: The EA Method Playbook

Faced with continuous change — from technology innovations, new markets, and competitive shifts — businesses must become more agile. Sustainable business agility, the ability to...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Skills Assessment Tool Kit: Assessment Tool

The purpose of this assessment tool is to serve as a starting point to help managers and employees discuss the development of skills typical to various architecture roles. It works as a communication...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Skills Assessment Tool Kit: Overview

An enterprise architecture (EA) program's success is largely dependent on its architects' skills. More companies are establishing EA programs, and architecture teams are growing. Moreover, the...

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For CIO Professionals

Report:Shifting From Rules To Guardrails

How To Ensure Sustainability In An Empowered BT Organization

Cloud computing services are designed to be directly consumed by business leaders, developers and consumers, and thus your company’s employees are bringing them into the business and using them...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Discover Financial Supercharges EA Effectiveness With A Comprehensive Repository

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Enterprise architecture (EA) organizations often toil out of the limelight — helping their firms improve business-IT alignment, rationalize their application portfolio, and guide their use of...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Review Tool Kit: Overview

Architecture review is an essential process for ensuring that projects are creating solutions with designs and technology that are compatible with long-term enterprise plans. This presentation...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Create A Business Architecture Program That Helps Your Business Manage Change

Executive Overview: The Business Architecture Playbook

Strategic change initiatives are proliferating in organizations. There may be multiple programs to improve customer experience, co-existing alongside projects to reduce costs, streamline internal...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Sample Business Capability Map: Oil And Gas

Business capability maps provide a framework for capturing key characteristics of a firm's business model and core functions, which can then be used to assess business needs, understand IT costs, and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Case Study: Skandia's EA-Led IT Transformation

Profile Of An InfoWorld/Forrester Enterprise Architecture Award Winner

Forrester teamed up with InfoWorld to identify five leading enterprise architecture (EA) organizations using practices that yield measurable business value. Skandia UK and International provides an...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Build A Business Architecture Program Road Map

Road Map: The Business Architecture Playbook

Too often, business architecture (BA) programs struggle to create a clear identity for the value they can deliver and get pulled in multiple directions. Successful BA programs — th ose with...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Execute On Your EA Practice Strategy

Road Map: The EA Practice Playbook

This report describes how to turn a strategy into a road map for execution and how to overcome common impediments to high-performance enterprise architecture (EA). EA programs too often get pulled in...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Focus EA Impact On Planning, Governance, And Innovation

This report outlines the high-level business impact of Forrester's solution for enterprise architecture (EA) executives working on building a high-performance EA practice. Describing the added...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Drive Process Innovation Using BPM Technologies, Methods, And COEs

Executive Overview: The Business Process Management Playbook

In the midst of continuous change — from technology, market, and competitive forces — businesses must become skilled at transforming and inventing new processes while improving their...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's Architecture Skills Assessment Tool Kit: Process Guide

The purpose of this process guide is to provide an overview of the architecture skills assessment process and step-by-step instructions for using the assessment tool included in Forrester's...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:The State Of EA 2010

EA's Top Focus: Overcoming Long-Standing Obstacles

Forrester's "State Of EA 2010" report shows consistent themes and incremental progress by the enterprise architecture (EA) function in most firms. EA leaders are part of senior IT management and have...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Playing Card Games With Business Capabilities

A Creative Approach Makes It Easy For Business Leaders To Use Business Capability Maps

Business capability maps are a versatile tool for enterprise architects. They can help architects clarify business priorities, rationalize project and application portfolios, and explain costs and...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:Forrester's EA Maturity Assessment, Q3 2011

Use this tool to periodically assess the maturity of your EA program relative to the expectations of your stakeholders and your target EA mission. The assessment results are displayed by EA archetype...

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For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Report:EA Skills Development Tool Kit

A Catalogue Of Skills Development Plans And Techniques Based On Insights From EA Managers

This tool kit will help address how to develop the skills needed to prime the EA team for success. We provide a variety of proven and tested architecture skills development techniques suggested by...

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