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13 June
09:00–09:15
John Zachman, President, Zachman International
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Introduction
from the Chair John Zachman, President, Zachman International |
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Enterprise Architecture or Just More of the Same? For many people, the Zachman Framework is a foundation stone for Enterprise Architecture; for others, it seems complicated and impractical. In this new presentation, John Zachman will show how the Framework actually simplifies reality by promoting the creation of primitive models of the enterprise that separate out independent elements yet maintain the relationships between them. He will also show how the Framework helps to gain a more complete and balanced understanding of organizations and indicate how these primitive models can support the implementation of more agile systems and businesses. It takes a major mind shift to grasp this idea; and without this level of understanding, architects are likely doomed to continue to do ‘more of the same’.
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Re-Architecting
Enterprise Architecture Jeff Scott, Chief Strategist, Logical Leap, Inc. Many EA programs are failing to deliver significant value and yet we persist in applying the same approaches again and again as if applying more of the same ineffective methods will finally create results. It’s time to rethink and re-architect our approach to EA program design and implementation to create EA programs that add value and are broadly endorsed by IT and the business. This session will explore how our current thinking about architecture and implementation strategies inhibits us from reaching our goals and how we can redesign our EA programs to attain the business value our organizations expect. By changing the way we think about architecture and applying basic business concepts such as stakeholder analysis, value creation, product development, financial metrics, and marketing, we can create powerful and successful EA programs that are broadly supported.
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Uncertain Architecture - Developing an Enterprise Architecture in an Uncertain Environment David Wright, Corporate Centre Head of Architecture, Westpac Bank Enterprise architectures have great intentions but often fail. Some of the more common reasons are: they take too long; they are not wanted; they cannot be implemented, etc. The following four methods, used in conjunction, can help develop an agreed enterprise architecture:
This presentation
will describe the methods used, how they were developed, how they are
being implemented, successes to date, problems with the approach and mitigation
around those problems. It will include examples of each of the deliverables
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Managing Those Dependencies: IT Portfolio
Management Ceri Williams, Consulting Enterprise Architect, The Integration Practice What most consultants don’t tell you is what product engineers have known for centuries – that re-use creates dependence and coupling, magnifying the impact of change. Of course, this is a good thing….and a problem. Key goals of EA include re-use, economies of scale and corporate optimisation. Without Enterprise Programme Management, Enterprise Architecture struggles to optimise across the business as it tries to mediate tradeoffs between business areas. Even when it gets the decisions through, they often unravel as inter-business unit dependencies are not managed and financial implications of tradeoffs are not reflected in management scorecards. This presentation takes a realistic look at the unpublished implications of EA decisions and the problems of execution without an Enterprise Programme Management capability. Topics include:
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Metamodeling and Repository Management – Critical Success Factors to a Successful EA |
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session will address a method for managing a “living” Enterprise
Architecture (EA) over many years, based on a dynamic metamodel, with content
that is adaptable and growing as the business grows.
The session will give an introduction to metamodeling and explain the importance of evolving and adapting the EA metamodel as the company and business modeling requirements grow. Managing EA content in a repository environment with a dynamic metamodel, with new strategic and non-strategic projects being initiated asynchronously is a challenge that requires full control of the releases of the EA, and significant program/project portfolio control. This requires a well established and accepted change management process that is followed by all users of the EA. A proven change management method will be introduced during the session. |
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The Enterprise Architecture Knowing-Doing Gap Alex Peters, Principal CIO Group, Forrester Research Ever-increasing business and technology complexity has made enterprise architecture professionals a key part of the contemporary IT organization. Their charter is daunting: and includes the creation of standards for technology selection and implementation that will best support enterprise goals, deliver high quality, save money, enable simple integration, minimize risk, and provide stability. For many, the battle is lost after the initial work has been completed — when the architecture group seeks the compliance of the wider community. It is then that they find that not only is buy-in not guaranteed, but it is unlikely to be obtained. After the difficult work of defining information, application and technology strategies and choosing standard architecture elements, architects discover that governance is actually the hard part.
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Enterprise Architecture Driving Business
Innovation Chris Potts, Director, Dominic Barrow The potential for Enterprise Architecture (EA) to drive business innovation is immense, yet often remains untapped. Using real-life examples, Chris will highlight how Enterprise Architects can best contribute to – and lead - business innovation. If our organization has yet to uncork EA’s full potential for driving business innovation, we need to uncover the reasons why and adjust our tactics accordingly. In an increasingly connected world, innovation relies on collaboration. Who are the ‘business innovators’ that EA should be collaborating with and influencing, and what does that collaboration look like? What balance should EA strike between shaping tomorrow’s innovations and supporting today’s investments?
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Enterprise Architecture at National Savings & Investments Joe Dall, Head of Information Systems, National Savings and Investments Graham Oakes, Principal, Graham Oakes Ltd With 26 million customer holdings and £70 billion invested in its products, NS&I is one of the UK’s largest savings organisations and plays an important role in securing cost effective funding for the government. Since April 1999, NS&I’s business operations have been delivered via a Private Sector Partnership with Siemens Business Services. This partnership has delivered reduced operational costs and significant investment in NS&I’s technology infrastructure. Government drivers, customer expectations and channel opportunities have all shifted significantly since 1999. Accordingly, in 2005 the partnership developed a refreshed view of its IS Strategy and Architecture. This presentation discusses the challenges of developing architecture in an outsourced environment, and the way NS&I is addressing those challenges.
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Building the IT-City Plan Recently there has been a growing interest in Enterprise Architecture. This has been considerably helped by the new architectural buzz word, “SOA – Service Oriented Architecture” and the various tools developed to support this concept. However, there is
one question that seems to recur: How to get started with EA/SOA? The roadmap will be illustrated by practical examples from real customer projects.
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Question-Oriented
Enterprise Architecture Martin Owen, VP, Enterprise Architecture Products Telelogic Enterprise Architecture stakeholders want to analyse and make business decisions based on architectural information. The three main levels of stakeholders for architecture information: Executives, Operational and Technical staff, all require different capabilities:
Executives and Operational
staff also want to report on specific questions about their architecture.
Questions will differ per organisation so using the latest web technology,
Telelogic provides an interface for all levels of stakeholder to access
and use their enterprise architecture information from System Architect®
in a comprehensive and easy manner. Learn how Executive and Operational
staff can obtain full value from EA by questioning their architecture
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Why
Standards Matter: How They Drive Enterprise Architecture into Actionable
Architecture Jan Popkin, Chief Strategist, OMG Successful EA programs
have always been based on industry standards. What exactly is the role
of standards in an EA effort? How can standards help an organization use
their EA to drive action?
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Implementing EA at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Douglas T Erickson, President, ENTARCO USA Inc This presentation will describe how Enterprise Architecture has been implemented at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, what value and benefits have been achieved and its role as a foundation for their SOA and Agile enterprise initiatives. They are now in the 8th year of implementation. This presentation is very oriented to the methodology used to implement EA and actual, real-world results.
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Application-to-Application-Connectivity Strategies Frank Baldinger, Corporate IT Associate, ING This presentation gives an overview of the areas of Web Services and SOA. For a global company like ING there is a need for Application-to-Application (A2A) connectivity strategies across all LOBs in all the regions. Looking at the SOA-WS field we need strategies depending on the type of architecture involved. An A2A connectivity stack together with a Coupling-Integration Quadrant will provide some directions for global companies with a federated organisation. The content of this presentation has some parallels, mutually reviewed, with the Gartner research document “Does Enterprise Architecture really matter?” (Willie Appel).
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The
EA Function's Role in Managing SOA Enabled Change Gareth Lloyd, CEO, glue SOA has, to date, developed largely as a set of architectural principles and technical standards that have been created independent of emerging EA frameworks and methodologies. However, this needs to change. SOA needs to be considered an integral part of the EA planning and management process if it is to progress beyond the 'web services' and technical re-usability scenarios with which today it is most commonly associated. Furthermore, the CIO now has the opportunity to embrace SOA and EA as key transformational and change mangement disciplines to help drive a fundamental change in the value generation and economic model for IT in the future.... Is the IT function ready for this?
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Where
should Architecture be Headed in Support of the Open Networked Enterprise? Peter Haine, Independent Consultant Five years ago, the subject of Enterprise Architecture barely raised a flicker of interest amongst IT Directors, yet today the IT world bristles with talk of service oriented architecture, application portfolio management, etc. But are these ideas enabling organisations to become the kinds of flexible, agile business networks that will dominate in the future? For the past eighteen months Peter Haine has participated in the Open Networked Enterprise programme at Don Tapscott’s IT Think Tank, New Paradigm. This has analysed the potential of ten breakthrough ideas, including EA, to fundamentally transform businesses. Members of the programme include American Express, Canadian Tire, Met Life, Federal Express, General Motors, Procter and Gamble, Roche, Citigroup and technology partners IBM, SAP and Intel. In his presentation Peter will give a high level introduction to the programme and share his assessment of where members and other organizations are in their application of EA ideas:
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Business-Driven Enterprise Technical Architecture Pekka Pulkkinen, Senior Platform Architect, Nokia Nokia’s enterprise architecture consists of five architecture dimensions that are based on business models and operating models of the business units. Technical architecture focuses on non-behavioural aspects that have high cost impact on the infrastructure creation and use phases. Nokia’s enterprise technical architecture speeds up the business infrastructure product creation by defining a set of architectural design patterns. The application patterns describe typical software component integration scenarios from standalone applications to applications interacting with multiple partners. The technical design patterns describe the best practises to improve the performance, security, availability, and IT continuity. The selection of the patterns is based on end user behaviour analysis and information risks assessment. All patterns are modelled in UML to enable easy reuse.
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The
Agile Architect – Bringing Agility to Architecture Andrew Johnston, Independent Consultant, Questa Computing In the real world of ever-changing goalposts and limited architecture resources, enterprise architects must themselves adopt agile methods of working. By doing so, they can deliver greater value to both agile and formal developments. The architect’s primary tasks – understanding the enterprise’s needs, envisioning and communicating the architecture, managing change and complexity – all benefit from a pragmatic approach focused on people and communication rather than tools and processes. This presentation draws on the presenter’s experience as an agile architect in a leading utility company, to explain:
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Measuring
the Value of Information - Assessing Value of the Information Portfolio John Ladley, Director, Navigant Consulting If information is an asset, is there any relevance in placing a value on the information portfolio? This seems like an intellectual exercise, but is evolving into an effective approach to show the value of information management applications to management. Information management is now being examined for its abilities to add real value to an enterprise, directly enhance balance sheets and income statements and mitigate risk. This session will examine the various views and aspects of determining the risk and value of information assets, and provides some guiding principles to help you develop a better case for proactive information management.. Specifically, this talk will examine:
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