Topic: Enterprise Architecture Disappearing into Business

Speakers
Speaker # 1
Speaker: Michael Rollings, Research Director, Burton Group
Topic: Enterprise Architecture Disappearing into Business
Key points of interest:
• EA is a discipline, not a profession. It is inclusive.
• Organizations adopt discipline, people adopt approaches
• In EA discussion, technology is not the only focus. It includes conversation on such necessary topics as – Value Management, Stewardship, Human Behaviour, Organization Culture and its behaviour etc.
• Without EA how does planning, optimization and design discipline ensure coordination
• Focus of EA is on Capability. i.e. an Organization has the capability to Ship Product. This capability can be optimized only if coordinated effort from all involved disciplines is applied. In order to achieve the necessary optimization, some processes in the value chain may have to become in efficient. A discipline we learned in Industrial Engineering and Just in Time Practices.
• Value of EA – how has EA helped influence decisions, value of those decisions and how these decisions helped influence the business goals
• Most Portfolio Management Organizations are struggling with Estimation of cost, timeline, risks – EA can not only help provide better decision parameters but also can ensure the required capabilities are developed within the defined architecture.
Further Discussion Threads:
• How do you go about introducing EA as a discipline in the organization?
• Who has the stewardship for a such a discipline?
• Where do you find practitioners who have necessary combination of soft and hard skills?
• How do you motivate and protect these people from internal nasty politics and career killing rumours and threats?
• Can the Industrial Engineering discipline teach us how to accelerate the discipline disappearance into the Business?