CONFERENCE - DAY 2 & EXHIBITS
WEDNESDAY, 13 June 2007

10:30–11:30

10:30–11:30

13:45–14:45

KEYNOTE

14:45–15:45

Track 1 

14:45–15:45

Track 2 

16:15–17:15

Light at the end of the Tunnel
Sue Davison, Information and Business Process Architect, GlaxoSmithKline
Lorne Clark, MEGA Intl.

Wednesday
13 June
09:00–10:00

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KEYNOTE: Managing Complexity and Change
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

Enterprise Architecture is a much misunderstood subject by General Management and the Information Technology community alike. Enterprise Architecture has everything to do with managing Enterprise complexity and Enterprise change and relates to information technology only in so far as information technology may be one choice that an Enterprise can make with regard to Enterprise operations. The Framework for Enterprise Architecture, the “Zachman Framework,” defines the set of descriptive representations that constitutes the knowledgebase required to manage Enterprises. This presentation will show, with examples, how these representations constitute the “raw material” for engineering the Enterprise for flexibility, integration, reusability, interoperability, alignment, etc.

• Enterprise Architecture - impact on Management
• Examples of descriptive representations of the Enterprise
• Making the Enterprise lean and mean

Wednesday
13 June
09:00–10:00

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FEATURED PRESENTATION: Measuring the Contribution of Enterprise Architecture
Chris Potts, Director, Dominic Barrow

There can sometimes be a gap between knowing that Enterprise Architecture is an indispensable capability and being able to measure its actual value. The impact on Enterprise Architects is that they may underplay their potential, applying their skills and knowledge in a partial vacuum of knowing whether they are making the most telling contribution.

From his hands-on work with Enterprise Architects in industry-leading companies, both here in the UK and around the world, Chris will highlight how people target and measure EA’s contribution to business results.

• Where EA can most impact business results
• Who does EA benefit most?
• The Enterprise Architect’s dashboard
• Real stories: what works, and what doesn’t

Featured Speaker

Chris Potts Director, Dominic Barrow To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
13 June
10:30–11:30

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Businesses that are united by purpose or common objectives often have complicated organizational structures, critical integration deliverables, alliance specifications or detailed partnership operations, with no apparent central point of control. They need a form of Enterprise Architecture which addresses this “federated integration”.

Examples of these kinds of organizations are common in our society: Educational Institutions, Government geopolitical subdivisions, enterprises with dealer operations, virtual companies with specialized partners or continental expertise and Research and Standards organizations with diverse country and highly specialized contributors.

Much of the architecture for these types of enterprises is currently based on technology and component integration, as evidenced by the high interest in provisioning of common IT services in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This session will illustrate how the emphasis on different aspects of Zachman’s framework can extend this to a set of common federated business architecture services.

• Often enterprises today are interdependent on other related organizations
• Integration design of this interdependency is generally left to the technologists
• Discover where these organizational entities can co-operate in the integration of the ideas governing the overall objectives.

Wednesday
13 June
10:30–11:30

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CASE STUDY

Many companies have limited their use of SOA to exposure of external web services. BT, UK’s incumbent Telco, has taken a bolder approach as it rapidly expands into a very competitive global ICT market and delivers innovative services over its 21C Network. BT has adopted SOA across the Enterprise to drive radical transformation of its IT systems. This session outlines the key aspects of this technical and cultural change that is improving the experiences of BT’s customers and driving down the total cost of ownership of IT - it will look at how BT is:

• Establishing an Enterprise SOA through Executive Leadership
• Engineering an Enterprise SOA through Ruthless Standardisation
• Evolving an Enterprise SOA through Continuous Migration
• Ensuring an Enterprise SOA through Effective Governance

Wednesday
13 June
10:30–11:30

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CASE STUDY

Architectures are key to supporting Business strategies; enabling integration and ‘agility’. Tools are part of an architectural roadmap. This talk will outline my experiences, mainly in large companies: what worked and what didn’t!! Tools will include Visio(!), System Architect, iGrafx, Rational Rose, Oracle tools... Also, publication, search and collaboration technologies. With the evolution of services and information explosion, things are getting harder!
Challenges to be discussed include:

• Getting buy-in and support.
• Getting people, with different needs, to use the tools.
• Integrating different elements
  (processes, data, applications, UML …).
• Providing adaptable, modelling, publication, search and feedback mechanisms.
• Getting reference data from other systems.
• Handling existing collateral.
• Avoiding the disillusionment of ‘big bang’ approaches.

Wednesday
13 June
10:30–11:30

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CASE STUDY

• Options and structures;
• Setting EA strategy and roadmaps;
• EA governance model with partners & service providers;
• Compliance and assurance in an outsourced model.

Wednesday
13 June
11:30-12:30

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CASE STUDY

• Realistic expectations of senior leadership involvement with EA.
• Assimilating EA thinking at all levels of an organization.
• Points in a company’s processes where EA can be better applied.
• The advantages to leaders of documenting their organization’s architecture.
• Change management using the Zachman Framework.

Wednesday
13 June
11:30-12:30

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CASE STUDY

The benefits of enterprise architecture to the organisation become much more evident when EA becomes an inherent part of the project processes and is used as a key input into the project decision processes. This presentation will focus on how Schroders have used architecture effectively in the definition and delivery of a multi-million pound Portfolio Accounting system implementation programme. Key topics will include:

• How a critical implementation used and is using architecture to manage both expectation and risk.
• How the programme and the underlying project workstreams utilised the architecture.
• Why certain EA elements were used and others not, where pragmatism came into play and the role of the architects.
• The importance of simplicity

Wednesday
13 June
11:30-12:30

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Ontology as an Enabler to Enterprise Architecture
Ian Bailey, Managing Director, Model Futures

Enterprise Architecture is a multi-disciplinary subject. The stakeholders in an EA may be business analysts, decision makers, data modellers, HR specialists, or may be one of many different types of IT specialist. Each community of interest has its own terminology and its own way of looking at the world. If a truly integrated architecture is to be achieved, embodying everything from strategic business goals to IT infrastructure, a common, agreed terminology is required. The requirement for EA terminology goes beyond simple glossaries and taxonomies, and requires a formal approach which aims to establish agreed semantics - an ontology. This presentation lays down the requirements for ontology in EA and examines two case studies where formal ontology is being developed to support the enterprise.

This presentation will cover:

• A brief introduction / tutorial on the basic concepts of ontology
• An overview of how formal ontology can support an enterprise architecture
• An overview of how ontology is being used in government projects to support EA
• A summary of the lessons learned in developing an ontology for EA - the important ground rules, how to manage change over time, and how to avoid the usual ontology pitfalls

Wednesday
13 June
11:30-12:30

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Troux Stories: The EA Teams Delivering Serious Business and IT Transformation Results
Mike Edwards, Senior Practice Director, Troux Technologies Ltd
Guest Speaker: Major Rob White, Ministry of Defence

A Troux lead architect and guest speaker outline case studies of EA teams who have transformed their roles from being modelers to deliverers of an invaluable platform and service for the collection, maintenance and analysis of real IT data from across the organization.

Wednesday
13 June
13:45–14:45

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To stay competitive today, enterprises must go beyond mere cost control and use IT to deliver business agility, flexibility and value. Yet too often, attempts with Enterprise Architecture or Service-Oriented Architecture fail to control costs, deliver value to the business, or affect change at the enterprise. But it doesn't have to be this way. We forget that the value of architecture comes not from creating it, but from applying it to applications. This keynote will describe trends and practices in IT architecture including:

• Best practices in SOA, governance, metrics and organizational structure
• Delivering value and results from your architecture activities
• Structuring EA to deliver services
• Enabling compliance, reducing exceptions, increasing adoption

Featured Speaker

Michael Rosen Director of Enterprise Architecture Cutter Consortium To Speaker's Bio

Wednesday
13 June
14:45–15:45

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Reusability is frequently cited as a critical factor in implementing Enterprise Architecture. In practice, what is really needed for sustained success is reuse. It is not enough for components just to be reusable in principle - they have to be reused in practice. For this to happen, reusability has to be designed in from the start, and enforced at all stages. This has many implications, some cultural, some technical, but generally boils down to a number of issues. The presentation explains and develops the threats and opportunities related to each issue, and outlines a structured approach for bringing an organisation to mature reuse management.

• How IS/IT Stakeholders can be convinced to design in reusability for new components/artefacts
• How Business Stakeholders can be convinced to pay for it, and changes in the way that IT projects and programs are justified and funded
• How designers and developers can be taught to recognise pre-existing reusable artefacts., and constraints on re-use (e.g. domain sensitivity/dependence).
• How the organisation as a whole needs to nurture reusability and support re-use, by ensuring that the EA is kept evergreen, and is therefore trustworthy.
• How re-use must be treated differently within each layer of the architecture (contextual/conceptual/logical/physical)
• How to deal with re-use at the enterprise level, as distinct from within programmes/projects.

Wednesday
13 June
14:45–15:45

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CASE STUDY

An overarching strategy for ICT in policing (ISS4PS) calls on the Police Service to develop more commonality and become more joined-up in its approach to ICT services. This presentation illustrates how Thames Valley Police are documenting their architecture, referencing examples of current key business initiatives.

Example models are used to illustrate how the practice of enterprise architecture can help to increase the opportunities for ICT collaboration at a national level. The session explores some of the challenges that Thames Valley Police face to realise the strategic “End Game” vision.

• The need for collaboration
• Understanding the complexity
• The importance of communication
• Overcoming the challenges

Wednesday
13 June
14:45–15:45

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CASE STUDY

The agile movement values people over processes, working software over documentation and most importantly the ability to react to change efficiently. Few software or enterprise architects would argue with these sentiments, as they are regularly judged on just these criteria. However, there is often a tension between architects and agile development teams, when architects are perceived to be slowing down the software delivery process.

The challenge for software and enterprise architects is to provide the coordination and common design needed to achieve a coherent enterprise IT environment, while working effectively with project teams to get systems delivered.

This session will discuss techniques and principles that have proven useful for architects working in agile environments, where the need for inter-project coordination must be balanced against the need for agility.

The session topics will include:

• The role of the architect in the agile environment.
• Working with agile teams.
• What to focus on and what to ignore.
• Alternatives to traditional documentation for inter-team communication.

Wednesday
13 June
14:45–15:45

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As Thomas Friedman says, the World is flat. It is becoming increasingly important to understand and leverage the architecture of business and technology to excel in this Flat World. Infosys believes that Enterprise Architecture (EA) plays a very important and enabling role increating flexibility and adaptability for an organization. At the same time, the boundaries of the Enterprise are also being challenged so the 'E' in Enterprise Architecture should also start to span organizational boundaries to include co-creation with customers and seamless value addition with vendor partners. For this, we must create an architecture which can be shared with partners and to which the partners can integrate with seamlessly without jeopardizing security, confidentiality and performance. The value of EA must be defined at the business level and must take direction from the business leaders and support the business strategy. It must also leverage the evolution into Web 2.0 and new participative technologies.

Wednesday
13 June
16:15–17:15

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CASE STUDY

Many companies rely on IT to support their business goals; however, getting IT right is very difficult and complex. If not properly controlled, managing IT will become increasingly challenging and may get worse.

We will present an approach that uses CIO levers (i.e. IT strategy, governance, transparency, efficiency, service delivery) to reduce complexity and improve the utilisation of IT assets. From our experience in the banking industry, we will share our views on managing the complexity of the IT estate by using an example of a CIO lever and key lessons learned.

Wednesday
13 June
16:15–17:15

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CASE STUDY

Light at the end of the Tunnel
Sue Davison, Information and Business Process Architect, GlaxoSmithKline
Lorne Clark, MEGA Intl.

The implementation of a sustainable enterprise architecture is a goal for many enterprises. For one such group in GSK, several attempts have been made over the last 8 years, each attempt proving more successful than its predecessor. This presentation will show that this is more than likely a journey to be achieved over time rather than a solution provided out of a box. It will illustrate lessons learned, points still to address and cover the following issues

• Sponsorship - someone needs to say ‘just do it’
• Change Management - It is not sufficient to say "here's a tool go and use it"
• Governance - Training alone does not result in all models/modellers being on the same page
• Process - Guidance on what to do when and how to go about it
• Tools - a collection of unrelated methodologies does not mean EA

Wednesday
13 June
16:15–17:15

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Service Oriented Architecture is a very interesting concept to many, but until it is clearly linked to business needs its rate of adoption is likely to be slow. This challenge confronts all Enterprise Architects, so how can this challenge be addressed? One answer is the creation of a business architecture foundation, defined as a collection of Business Capabilities. This presentation provides an overview of Business Capability mapping and the use of this technique in the Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA) framework. It discusses the techniques that help map, understand, and quantify the capabilities of an organization. It also attempts to position Business Capability mapping in a broader context and illustrates how Capability Models can be used as the foundation for Service Oriented Architecture.

• What is Business Architecture?
• What is a Capability?
• What is MSBA?
• Capability Mapping
• Capability Mapping as the Foundation for SOA

Wednesday
13 June
16:15–17:15

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Conference Wrap-up - Conference Chair

John Zachman Zachman International To Speaker's Bio