Conference - Day 2

KEYNOTE: Zachman Enterprise Framework2™
John Zachman, President, Zachman International

Although the ideas about Enterprise Architecture have been acknowledged for many years, there still remains a lack of common understanding as to what exactly constitutes “Enterprise Architecture.” The recent re-launch of the Zachman Framework as Zachman Enterprise Framework2 ™ marked the establishment of the definition for Enterprise Architecture that is consistent with John Zachman’s original proposition that the concept of Enterprise Architecture goes far beyond the present information systems (or, information technology) paradigm. The end object is to engineer and manufacture the ENTERPRISE not simply to build and run systems. This presentation will show how Architecture is Architecture is Architecture and demonstrate how the re-launch as Zachman Enterprise Framework2 ™ reiterates and reinforces this ENTERPRISE Architecture orientation.

What Architecture is NOT
What Enterprise Architecture IS
Zachman Framework2 ™
Architecting is DIFFERENT from Implementing

Featured Speaker

John Zachman
President
Zachman International

Wednesday
11 June
09:00–10:00

PANEL: Strategies for Managing and Coordinating the Architecture Function
Moderator: Sally Bean, Independent Consultant
Panellists:
Martin Sykes, Microsoft
Denis Hageman, ABN AMRO
Adrian Apthorp, DHL Express Europe
Michael Rosen, Cutter Consortium
Tim Murfet, Accenture Technology Consulting UK

A panel of conference speakers and experts will debate the challenges organisations face when the architecture function is distributed across a virtual network of architects. For example, there may be a core EA group, business unit groups, and solution architects in project teams (who may be outsourced). This network also includes analysts, consultants, tool and technology vendors and other experts. What are the best ways of distributing responsibilities and enabling the right levels of cohesion and autonomy across this diverse community? How could we exploit the virtual network more effectively for business benefit?

Moderator:

Sally Bean
Independent Consultant

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Panellists:

	Martin Sykes Senior Programme Manager Microsoft To Speaker's BIO

	Denis Hageman Head of Strategy and Architecture IT Group Functions ABN AMRO To Speaker's BIO

	Adrian Apthorp Head of Architecture DHL Express Europe To Speaker's BIO

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

	Tim Murfet Managing Director Accenture Technology Consulting UK To Speaker's Bio

FOUR CONFERENCE TRACKS

Track 1

Unifying Business and IT Architecture

Track 2

Reshaping IT Landscapes

Track 3

Organization, Content and Delivery

Track 4

Sponsor Insights

10:30 - 11:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Wednesday
11 June
10:30–11:30

Track 1

CASE STUDY

Joining up the Architecture: Lessons along the way
Adrian Apthorp, Head of Architecture, DHL Express Europe

This presentation will describe the experiences of bringing a major change programme to realisation through the application of Enterprise Architecture principles, moving from initial conceptual architecture to process and system design. The programme in question involves business model redesign, as well as IT systems change and integration, across business units in 25+ European countries.

The approach taken focuses on identifying and managing the key architectural aspects that drive business and IT design decisions. This builds on a capabilities-based framework laid down in the impact analysis and programme design phases.

This session will focus on the following challenges and benefits in a programme setting:

Aligning business and IT architecture
Aligning business and IT design
Identifying critical enablers and dependencies
Enterprise architecture and portfolio management
Aligning change in a federated environment

Featured Speaker

Adrian Apthorp
Head of Architecture
DHL Express Europe

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Wednesday
11 June
10:30–11:30

Track 2

What might Architecture, Design and Implementation Models look like?
Stan Locke, Managing Director, Zachman Framework Associates

Enterprise Architecture is sometimes simply seen as a way of developing solutions to requirements on a large scale, without always identifying underpinning components. A benefit of the Zachman Framework is that the classification approach makes it easier to identify components that can be fitted together in different ways in order to create an integrated solution that can handle a wide range of business complexities.

The Framework allows us to organise enterprise knowledge into sets of concepts, designs, technologies, components and instances in which the identified pieces can be seen in the solution. The architecture then becomes an orderly way to manage the migration from the current state to the future state of the enterprise.

This presentation will show how the Zachman Framework can help you to ‘build out’ the enterprise, using components that have been classified and abstracted in such a way that complex interrelationships are minimised and that the entire enterprise design can be examined from the emergent piece patterns and how they might interlock together.

Featured Speaker

Stan Locke
Managing Director
Zachman Framework Associates

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Wednesday
11 June
10:30–11:30

Track 3

Light and Agile Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) in Small and Midsize Enterprises
Dr. Thomas Mannmeusel, Senior VP Information Systems, ADVA AG Optical Networking

Managing complexity and aligning Information System strategy with the enterprise strategy are among the key issues tackled by EAM. Thus, EAM is typically being discussed and applied in the context of large corporations and enterprises. How about small and medium enterprises (SMEs)? The presentation will describe practical experiences of applying EAM in a globally acting and rapidly growing SME from the high-tech/electronics sector, considering typical constraints SME’s are facing. The session will focus on the following aspects:

Do SMEs need EAM at all? What is the right maturity level?
EA definition at ADVA AG Optical Networking. Which elements of EAM do we use and how?
Avoiding ivory towers by embedding EAM properly into the organization
How did we introduce EAM at ADVA Optical Networking AG
ADVA’s agile EAM process and benefits

Featured Speaker

Dr. Thomas Mannmeusel
Senior VP Information Systems
ADVA AG Optical Networking

Wednesday
11 June
10:30–11:30

Track 4

The 4 Stages of the EA Journey – Some Lessons Learnt – Best Practices
Daljit Banger, Practice Director, White Knight Management

Working with our clients we have observed 4 key stages in the Enterprise Architecture Journey, which are;

Initiation – this stage of the journey is the early creation of the EA team with its roles and responsibilities resulting in the definition of objectives, selling the value proposition to the organisation etc.
Re-enforcement – This stage of the Journey is the expansion of stage one and the delivery of initial artefacts (principles, policies, practices, processes & some basic artefact portfolio management – what we at WKM refer to as the 5P’s)
Maturity – This is the stage of the journey where the work in stages 1 & 2 above are matured, formalised through governance and embedded into the organisation.

The 4th Stage and a critical stage in the journey to deliver a successful Enterprise Architecture for an Organisation can be classed as the 3R’s “recovery, re-alignment and refocus.

The presentation will discuss experiences, share some best practices and patterns from past engagements with reference to the above stages and highlight a simple approach to turning around failing architecture function/teams within your organisation. We will also take the opportunity to introduce the community edition of the WKM Simple Enterprise Architecture Tool (S-EA-T) a mind map tool for Enterprise Architecture functions – a non UML EA tool.

Featured Speaker

Daljit Banger
Practice Director
White Knight Management

11:30 - 12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Wednesday
11 June
11:30-12:30

Track 1

Business Rules and Decisioning in Enterprise Architectures: Smarter Business Processes, Smarter Governance and Smarter Compliance
Ronald G. Ross, Co-Founder and Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC, Executive Editor, www.BRCommunity.com

Deployment of policy and rules into day-to-day business decisions should be timely, effective, selective, traceable, repeatable, and retractable. What do you need in your enterprise architecture to achieve that? In this presentation, Ron explains how business rules, enterprise decisioning and rule management are integral to achieving continuously smarter business processes.

Unfortunately, in many companies today the deployment process is effectively broken – and not at all up to the challenges of doing business in a fast-paced, knowledge-centric, and globally connected world. Ron explains how your company can tune its enterprise architecture for smarter decisioning in highly pragmatic fashion.

As added benefits, Ron also outlines how rule-based practices can be used to successfully rejuvenate systems and conduct legacy modernization at minimum risk to your company. He also explains how better deployment strategies will enable your company to thrive in a multi-channel world.

Architectural imperatives for dealing with constant change and massive complexity
Agile, high-fidelity deployment of business policy
Scalable, traceable decisioning practices
Rules of record – compliance that is architecturally built-in
Why process and data initiatives are not enough

Featured Speaker

Ronald G. Ross
Co-Founder and Principal
Business Rule Solutions, LLC
Executive Editor, www.BRCommunity.com

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Wednesday
11 June
11:30-12:30

Track 2

CASE STUDY

EA and Web 2.0: Does Architecture Matter?
Simon Field, Chief Technology Officer, Office for National Statistics

Web 2.0 is offering businesses an increasingly rich set of integratable capabilities. With the pace of change continuing to accelerate, how can architectural practices keep up? Are business solutions becoming disposable commodities, rendering architecture an expensive and unnecessary brake on progress? Or do we need to define a “just enough” architecture to maintain our understanding of a world of connected systems and information continuously growing in complexity?

Using ONS as a case study, I will show how Web 2.0 is affecting how the organization works, and how its boundaries are becoming blurred, particularly in relation to how we publish our outputs. With more and more falling outside our sphere of control, what are we left to architect?

Featured Speakers

Simon Field
Chief Technology Officer
Office for National Statistics

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Wednesday
11 June
11:30-12:30

Track 3

CASE STUDY

The use of tooling and methods to achieve Business-IT alignment
Mark de Weger, Managing Consultant, BiZZdesign Consultancy on behalf of UWV

EA tools and methodologies have been around for a number of years now, and a number of organisations are going beyond pilot implementations and beginning to roll these out on a broad scale. One of these forerunners is UWV, the Dutch Social Security Administration. This presentation will share their experiences with the audience from the perspective of Business-IT alignment. It will include:

The interplay between business architecture, IT architecture, business process management and requirements management
Lessons learnt
Initial benefits achieved

Featured Speaker

Mark de Weger
Managing Consultant
BiZZdesign Consultancy on behalf of UWV

Wednesday
11 June
11:30-12:30

Track 4

Developing the Capabilities of Enterprise Architects
Mike Lambert, CTO Architecting-the-Enterprise, Fellow of The Open Group, Lecturer, University of Reading

The growth in adoption of Enterprise Architecture is being threatened by a shortage of capable Enterprise Architects. Traditionally leading Enterprise Architects achieve their skills through extensive experience. Are there any ways to shorten this process without compromising capabilities.

This presentation will discuss:

The skills profiles of different members of the Enterprise Architecture team
The role of Architecture Frameworks to improve the effectiveness of Enterprise Architects
Developing a more professional approach to Enterprise Architecture as a profession
The role of Academia in the development of Enterprise Architects

Featured Speaker

Mike Lambert
CTO Architecting-the-Enterprise, Fellow of The Open Group, Lecturer
University of Reading

Wednesday
11 June
13:45–14:45

KEYNOTE: EA and SOA - From Rhetoric to Realization
David Sprott, CEO and Vice President, Everware-CBDI International

Services represent the next stage in IT Architecture evolution and are increasingly becoming a core enterprise level strategy. Yet architectural practice is running behind reality. To prevent service anarchy there is an increasing urgency to upgrade the de facto enterprise architecture approach, not just to prevent chaos, but also to take advantage of new business opportunity. This presentation will argue the case for radical change, and will show how to use the service model to bring EA into the pivotal position between business and systems delivery, long promised but frequently under-delivered.

Featured Speaker

David Sprott
CEO and Vice President
Everware-CBDI International

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14:45 - 15:45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Wednesday
11 June
14:45–15:45

Track 1

CASE STUDY

Weathering the Perfect Storm with Enterprise Architecture
Alix Cheema, CTO, Group Central Functions, Lloyds TSB
Roger Evernden, Enterprise Architect

Business needs are like emerging weather fronts, with continual and often unpredictable changes, ranging from simple interest rate cuts, through aggressive sales activity in the market place, to the recent sub-prime credit fallout. The most deadly scenario is the perfect storm; where it is difficult to anticipate or respond to the complex set of coincident business and technical pressures.

To weather these storms, we must stop trying to align IT with the business, and instead create business and IT fusion, where Enterprise Architecture and organisational design are aligned to pro-actively guide the business through difficult storms, and business and architecture evolve together.
This presentation will describe the approach at a major UK financial services company, its successes, how it was developed and implemented, and its problems and how they were addressed:

How do business, technology and organisation evolve together?
How to break free from a vicious circle - where meeting business needs requires a flexible enterprise architecture, but delivering such dexterity can’t happen without changes to the design of the organisation?
How EA operates as a broad umbrella discipline, uniting multiple sub-disciplines
How EA uses scale and views to meet the many needs of its diverse stakeholders whilst addressing innovation and risk
How EA works in tandem with strategy planning, programme management, change management and IT to drive investment

Featured Speakers

Alix Cheema
CTO, Group Central Functions
Lloyds TSB

Roger Evernden
Enterprise Architect

Wednesday
11 June
14:45–15:45

Track 2

CASE STUDY

Towards a Pragmatic Implementation of SOA
Alistair Shearin, Director of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospitals in the UK, with an international reputation for excellence in patient care, research and teaching. Healthcare is an information intense activity, and a wide range of systems have been introduced over the years, often optimised for specific teams or specialisations. This proliferation leads to a fragmentation of data, making it impossible to take a holistic view of a given patient or process.

To address this, Guy’s and St Thomas’ has adopted a strategy of integration at the systems, data and user interface layers. SOA principles are used to support the delivery of a comprehensive hospital wide information system utilising the existing, heterogeneous applications set, supported by additional developments to fill gaps in the applications portfolio.

The presentation will outline the overall strategy, describe briefly the underpinning infrastructure, explain the logical applications architecture, the selection of the integration toolkit and delivery partners and the initial implementation plan, and will conclude with a brief look at some of the associated capability and governance developments.

Featured Speakers

Alistair Shearin
Director of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital

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Wednesday
11 June
14:45–15:45

Track 3

Mind the Gap! – Integrating Process, Data, and Requirements Modelling
Alec Sharp, Senior Consultant, Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd

Having process, application, and data architectures is great, but what’s the connection to the work of people building or acquiring systems? To encourage use of enterprise architectures, and also to support their bottom-up refinement via project-level work, EA must take a leadership role in promoting practical analysis techniques that integrate smoothly with architectural perspectives. These techniques must be repeatable by analysts, understandable and relevant to business subject matter experts, and useful to designers and developers. They must also divide the problem space into a reasonable number of perspectives and progressive levels of detail, play well together, and be practical enough that we can achieve good results within our natural lifetimes. This is a tall order, but it’s possible.

This presentation will describe an integrated set of techniques that have worked well for all parties in projects of widely varying sizes and budgets. They have been refined over many years, so important guidelines and tips based on actual project experience will also be shared.

Key points and questions include:

What are functional requirements and why are they so problematic to develop?
Technique overload - usage-centred design, use cases, scenarios, agile methods, service or component specifications, contracts, etc. Are any or all of them useful and necessary?
A simple framework incorporating workflow models, use cases, service specifications, and data models
How can I avoid the “deep dive for detail,” and take a controlled descent instead?
Scope, concept, and specification (planner, owner, and designer) perspectives for each technique.
Is there any way to get agile developers to feel good about architecture and modelling?

Featured Speaker

Alec Sharp
Senior Consultant
Clariteq Systems Consulting Ltd

Wednesday
11 June
14:45–15:45

Track 4

Effective EAM Using Control, Planning and Process: Case Studies
David Ferré, Senior Product Manager, alfabet AG

Effective enterprise architecture management is achieving two high-level goals. Firstly, the IT delivered meets business requirements and secondly, the IT delivered is cost effective and also designed to achieve future, unknown goals – i.e. using flexible, standardized and agile architectures. Many techniques exist to support effective EAM, e.g. modelling process support, portfolio management, blue-printing. But without effective management, i.e. control, planning and process, these techniques alone will not deliver sustainable results. David Ferré uses case studies from clients such as T-Systems, Daimler and AXA to illustrate how to achieve sustainable EA management using the alfabet product planningIT.

Featured Speaker

David Ferré
Senior Product Manager
alfabet AG

16:15 - 17:15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Wednesday
11 June
16:15–17:15

Track 1

Developing the Benefits Case for EA, using a Service-Based Approach
Graham Meaden, Director, Celestial Consulting

Defining quantitative success measures and benefits for an EA Practice presents a challenge due to the intangible nature of the strategy and planning capability its delivers. The primary challenge is to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship between actions taken by an EA Practice and improvements to organizational performance.

This presentation demonstrates the approach recently taken by Celestial Consulting, working intensively with one of its clients to establish the business case for the building and operating of an EA Practice. The presentation walks through the following steps:

Vision and mission formulation
Stakeholder identification
Service definition
Service-level value proposition development and the aggregation of benefits into a systems thinking model demonstrating the cause-and-effect relationship between actions taken by an EA Practice and improvements to organizational performance.

Featured Speakers

Graham Meaden
Director
Celestial Consulting

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Wednesday
11 June
16:15–17:15

Track 2

CASE STUDY

The use of Handbooks for the Governance of Service Oriented Architectures
John Keefe, MOD
Bob Leeming, Serco Solutions

This presentation describes the use of the MOD SOA Handbook and its exposure to the wider MOD client. The handbook supports a portfolio of projects designed to demonstrate the effects and benefits of SOA and which will, if adopted on a wider scale, form the vanguard of a coherent defence-wide programme i.e. an incremental approach. It is intended to provide easy access to the latest guidance and information on SOA to MOD planners, desk officers, project teams, and those specifically responsible for ensuring best possible effect from available resources. It seeks to furnish just enough relevant detail from a rapidly developing and increasingly technical area of business to the reader. It is a ”live” document and the intent is to keep it regularly updated. The key relevant aspects of the Handbook are:

SOA is defined in a UK military context and linked to potential coalition operations with common allied nations.
It emphasises the mandatory use of the MOD Architectural Framework (MODAF) for all MOD architectural design.
It prescribes the use of web services and specifies mandatory use of specific widely accepted open source standards.
It highlights the difficulties of SOA in the deployed military environments which are bandwidth restricted.
It highlights the difficulties of web service security.
It defines the specific arrangements for SOA governance linked to the key military constructs of Network Enabled Capability (NEC) and Command and Battlespace Management (CBM).

Featured Speaker

John Keefe
MOD

Bob Leeming
Serco Solutions

Wednesday
11 June
16:15–17:15

Track 3

CASE STUDY

Enterprise Architecture, knowledge before action
Nigel Hughes, Business Architect, British Energy

Enterprise Architecture has been a key enabler for British Energy’s change programme. Prior to the change programme taking off, the business users often commented that they were being asked the same questions by different projects. Project teams commented that business users had difficulty committing time. EA has become a key enabler for our IT strategy. This presentation will discuss how the business burden has been reduced by EA and how it has brought project teams up to speed quickly. The session will include:

Benefits of Enterprise Architecture
Information about the means of examining and assessing the impact of changes
What are the downsides and how we mitigated them?

Featured Speaker

Nigel Hughes
Business Architect
British Energy

Wednesday
11 June
16:15–17:15

Track 4

From Mainframe to a Service Oriented Architecture in a Distributed System
Pim van der Horst, Chief Information Officer, Kas Bank on behalf of BluePhoenix Solutions

Moving away from the mainframe – the rationale
Ensuring database agility – non-relational versus relational
Migrating core business applications
Benefits of new platform architecture

Featured Speaker

Pim van der Horst
Chief Information Officer
Kas Bank on behalf of BluePhoenix Solutions

Wednesday
11 June
17:15–17:30

Conference Wrap-up - Conference Chair

John Zachman
Zachman International