How EA is Transforming the UK Government's Approach to Information Sharing
Anthony Golledge, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Detica UK
Kevin Mclean, Director Magee Review (former), Cabinet Office

Architecting the Enterprise in Syngenta - Facing the Strategic Challenge
Peter Hungerford, Enterprise Architect & Senior Syngenta Fellow, Syngenta

Tuesday
9 June
09:00–09:15

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	John Zachman President Zachman International To Speaker's Bio
	Sally Bean Director Sally Bean Ltd To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
9 June
09:15–10:15

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KEYNOTE: The Next Generation of Enterprise Architects
Chris Potts, Corporate Strategist, Dominic Barrow
Tim Shoubridge, Global Head of Enterprise Architecture, Leaseplan Corporation

This is a dual presentation, combining Chris, in his customary thought-provoking way, and Tim with his on-the-ground experiences leading the next generation of Enterprise Architects in the world-leading vehicle and fleet-management company.
How can Enterprise Architects ensure they are truly valued as fully-fledged contributors to corporate and business success? What new skills and techniques have they had to develop along the way? Where are they now in LeasePlan’s worldwide organization structure? And how is LeasePlan benefiting from this evolution?

• Enterprise Architecture as a fully-fledged business discipline
• Historic boundaries, and how to shift them
• The next-generation of Enterprise Architect
• The LeasePlan journey
• Lessons learned, and where next?

Featured Speakers

	Chris Potts Corporate Strategist Dominic Barrow To Speaker's Bio
	Tim Shoubridge Global Head of Enterprise Architecture Leaseplan Corporation To Speaker's Bio

Tuesday
9 June
10:45–11:45

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CASE STUDY

• Architecture community and practice setup
• Shell architecture framework & standards, based on TOGAF
• Improving EA practices to cover end-to-end architecture domains and processes
• EA tool & deployment: planning, implementation, usage, and benefits.

The presentation includes a case study with benefits and lessons learnt, from the Shell global initiative of introducing and managing its architecture standardization and adopting IBM System Architect as the standard EA tool throughout the enterprise.

Tuesday
9 June
10:45–11:45

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• Explain the enterprise approach to modelling the PPN’s information-sharing needs
• Describe an innovative ethnographic approach to analysing business needs, from desk sergeants to senior executives
• Highlight success stories from the EA approach
• Illustrate how this work supports the cross-Government EA agenda which is steadily transforming Government.

Tuesday
9 June
10:45–11:45

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SOA introduces new options for M&A planners that can bring radical improvements in delivering shareholder value. This presentation will introduce a structured, service-oriented approach for planning and executing M & A, discussing recent, real world examples.

Learn about:

• Better M&A strategy
• M&A business modeling techniques
• M&A best practice

Tuesday
9 June
10:45–11:45

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• An approach to the operationalisation of architecture: embedding enterprise architecture within the project and development processes
• A practical approach to the development of future state roadmaps: mapping technology strategy and its impact on architecture

Tuesday
9 June
11:45-12:45

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CASE STUDY

This Application Landscape model is used to reach shared understanding about the project-specific Application Landscape, to investigate which systems may be extended, and to define the purpose of systems to avoid overlapping functionalities. They are used to determine which data entities will be stored where and to define information flows between systems. It is also used for architecture and impact assessments.

Experiences are shared about:

• A new approach to document an Application Landscape
• A bottom-up approach to introduce EA in a big organization
• Proactive EA Guidance providing visible benefits in IT Solution design
• Extension of EA Guidance to strategy alignment and decision making

Tuesday
9 June
11:45-12:45

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To date however, these component architectures are held in disparate repositories and operated on by several architecture tools and employing differing governance standards. Very often they are not directly accessible by industry. To overcome this, the Future Logistics Information Services Programme is delivering an Integrated Enterprise Architecture to be shared with industry to join these component architectures together and create a true Logistics Enterprise Architecture.

This presentation will outline:

• How the maturity assessment & roadmap for the Enterprise Architecture was developed
• How the Project was managed
• How the benefits have been realized.

Tuesday
9 June
11:45-12:45

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The Open Group’s TOGAF standard is the leading method for EA development, including a process, techniques and best practices. ArchiMate, the Open Group standard for modelling and visualizing enterprise architecture, is a language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships.

Based on a real-life case from the insurance sector, we show:

• How TOGAF and ArchiMate together offer a comprehensive approach to EA
• That ArchiMate makes the deliverables prescribed by TOGAF concrete
• How TOGAF-specific templates for an ArchiMate modelling tool support this
• Which extensions to ArchiMate may be needed to express all the aspects that TOGAF addresses

Tuesday
9 June
11:45-12:45

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Tuesday
9 June
14:00–15:00

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This presentation will focus on 'coherency management' as the primary goal of EA. By establishing a coherency management capability as part of their EA approach, enterprises can bring together the enterprise's strategic, business and technology dimensions, and in doing so, create a coherent enterprise based on the three core values alignment, agility and assurance.
Taking a critical look at a number of EA-efforts in various enterprises around the world, the presenter will demonstrate that coherency must be a major concern for enterprise architects, including highlights from a seminal new book on the subject. A coherency management framework will be introduced and its use demonstrated though real-life cases.

Tuesday
9 June
15:00–16:00

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CASE STUDY

The UK Government Department for Work and Pensions has over 100,000 staff and an annual operating budget of approximately £25 billion paying out over £125 billion in benefits. It has a portfolio of over 250 significant projects and programmes with an investment value of over £2bn.

In this session you will learn:

• How DWP constitutes projects in support of Enterprise Architecture
• How the challenge of prioritization of competing initiatives is simplified through Enterprise Architecture
• How Enterprise Architecture assurance can be made to work
• The principles for Portfolio Management in large-scale organizations

Tuesday
9 June
15:00–16:00

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VPEC-T, as described by Green and Bate in their book Lost in Translation, is a framework that bridges the gap between the business and IT. In this session we will look at how VPEC-T has been successfully used on a number of substantial real life projects to overcome some of the issues identified above. In particular we will:

• Show how VPEC-T promotes a behaviour- centric view of EA and the benefits this can bring to both the technology delivery and governance of an Enterprise Architecture.
• Show how this can be used to deliver a pragmatic approach to EA, delivering early business benefit.
• Identify the current limits of the approach and point to future directions of work that will further enhance the delivery of Information Systems and Information Systems Strategy.

Tuesday
9 June
15:00–16:00

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Tuesday
9 June
15:00–16:00

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CASE STUDY

Vodafone has outsourced the complete business application development function –a major chunk of it to EDS. EDS Enterprise Architecture team was asked to support these extended development projects with structured knowledge of the application and information layer of Vodafone. Built on the repository –completed with such weird methods like source code analysis-, EDS Enterprise Architecture Team started offering numerous services to the participants of EDS/Vodafone projects.

Today, these services form an indispensable part of these projects; what’s more, they’re prerequisite to them.

In this case study, you’ll get to know

• how can the fuzzy, overlapping and missing information from Visio drawings, minds of individuals and documentations be validated by source code analysis?
• how can the chaos of details be managed?
• the tools, the results, the lessons and the benefits of the method;
• a working example of architecture management services offered to internal and external customers”

Tuesday
9 June
16:30–17:30

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New governance is needed. An operational "owner", responsible for the day-to-day operation of the service has to be defined in addition to the business owner who steers the functionality of the service. To enable smooth operation of the services, guidelines and standards must be adhered to in the development processes. Effectuation of architecture and ITSM guidelines and standards is currently done by the provisioning of permits, issued by Enterprise Architects at defined milestones in the development process. The permit verifies the architecture and authorizes the project to continue.

This presentation shows:

• Standards and principles used by KLM
• How current architecture concepts and standards are safeguarded
• New SOA based governance for ITSM
• Type of accountabilities needed in a SOA based ITSM organization
  

Tuesday
9 June
16:30–17:30

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These next generation EA challenges, which are emerging in many companies, bring with them many new questions and problems. This presentation will describe how we are tackling two challenges from the extremes of the strategic lifecycle: Creation of the IS strategic plan, and strategic multi-year projects.

We will share:

• How, through new methods and ways-of-working which build upon existing approaches, our EA group is being recognized as strategic and able to contribute to the architecting of the enterprise.
• How the role of the architect is changing focus from architecting Information Systems to architecting the Enterprise, and how we are adapting our architecture function to achieve this.
• How we have involved other stakeholders in creating and evolving this new architecture

Tuesday
9 June
16:30–17:30

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Tuesday
9 June
16:30–17:30

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