Building EA Management Standards: A Progresses Report from the EA Management Guide Project

1. Building EA Management Standards:A Progresses Report from the EA Management Guide Project The EAMG Project Team aeajournal.org

2. Topics • EA Management Guide (EAMG) Project Background and Overview • Approaches and Progress • Draft Samples • Call for Participation aeajournal.org

3. Project Background: Why We Need EA Management Standards • The EA discipline is a relatively new and evolving field • The EA Body of Knowledge has three major deficiencies: • Inconsistency • Incompleteness • Lack of community participation and ratification aeajournal.org

4. Benefits of Developing EA Management Standards • Build consensus and common ground • Fill knowledge gaps • Involve participation and establish commitment • Raise levels of effectiveness, quality, reliability, efficiency, interoperability, and return on investment for EA services. aeajournal.org

5. EA Management Guide Project Overview • Purpose: • Identify and organize EA knowledge and best practices for every aspect of EA management; • Assemble EA management information that is generally recognized as good EA practice and knowledge in most enterprises, most of the time. • Project Management: Led by a|EA’s EA Standards Committee • Objectives: • Complete an EA Management Guide (Version 1.0). • Establish the Guide as an a|EA standard. • Pursue acceptance with international standards organizations. • Target Timeline for the Guide’s Content: Nov 2005 – Oct 2007 aeajournal.org

6. Overview (cont.) • Principles: Open participation; Transparent process; Consensus-building journey. • Team: Currently over 70 volunteers from 9 countries, representing practitioners and scholars with EA expertise in public and private sectors, civilian and military institutions, and different industries. • Progress: • Project initiated and planned. • Call for Participation distributed to the EA community. • Outline reviewed by the EA community. • Second draft authoring is underway. aeajournal.org

7. Scope of this Project EA Management Guide High level summary EA Handbook Focused explanation By subject area or industry EA Handbook EA Handbook EA Standards Technical specifications from all sources EA Standards EA Standards References: supporting and source materials Scope of the EAMG in the EA Management Reference System* *System: A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole. aeajournal.org

8. Challenges Encountered • Disagreement on concepts and terminologies • Divergence on goals and outcomes • Discrepancy in processes and approaches aeajournal.org

9. EAMG Approaches and Progresses • Clarify and harmonize concepts and terminologies • Specify goals and outcomes • Identify key principles, major processes and core approaches • Encourage innovation and creativity while standardize good practices aeajournal.org

10. EAMG Focus Areas • Concepts and Terminology: Establish concepts, terms, definitions, a common language, and a basic understanding of the EA discipline and EA management. • Methodology: Utilize and integrate methods and techniques from wide sources to form an EA management arsenal. • Design Principles and Patterns: Identify criteria for good architectures and feasible ways to reach the good architecture. • Processes and Techniques: Specify the standard processes and techniques for architecting an enterprise’s Architecture. • Program Management: Build a high quality and strong performing EA program to carry out the EA mission. • Problem Solving & Decision Support: Apply the EA discipline to solve common types of real world problems and provide support for specific decision-making. aeajournal.org

11. Current Chapter Outline • Introduction to the Enterprise Architecture Discipline • Enterprise Architecture Fundamentals • Enterprise Architecture Management Core • Enterprise Architecture Management Methodology • Enterprise Architecture Information Management • Enterprise Architecture Designs • Enterprise Architecting Lifecycle Management • Enterprise Architecture Program Management • Enterprise Architecture Applications aeajournal.org

12. EA Management Methodology Matrix aeajournal.org

13. Document Existing Architecture Strategic Mgmt Perspective Business Mgmt Perspective Resource Mgmt Perspective Risk Mgmt Perspective Electronic Mgmt Perspective Continue Architecture Management Project Closure Maintain Architecture Measure operation performance Identify future change needs. Analyze Existing Architecture EA Statistics EA Diagnoses EA Analyses EA Reports EA Recommendations EA Management Core EA Drivers EA Principles EA Governance EA Information Base EA Intelligence Capacity Design & Ratify Target Architecture EA Design EA Policy EA Standards EA Processes Evaluate Implemented Changes Output Quality Analyses EA Performance Analyses Implement EA Plans Build new components Align existing components Monitor changes Plan & Commit Transitions EA Planning EA Governance Process EA Review EA Stakeholder Mgmt Architecting Lifecycle aeajournal.org

14. Architecting Lifecycle Management aeajournal.org

15. Summary • The EA Discipline needs standards to guide practices. • The EA Management Guide project assembles existing standards, extracts EA community’s wisdom and best practices, and align them all into a more consistent and complete set of standards to support the delivery of sound architectures. • Progresses have been made but much work is still ahead. We call for your continuous support, input, and participation to achieve our common goal. aeajournal.org

16. Summary • How to help: • Authoring • Reviewing • Promoting • Funding • Contact Information • Haiping Luo, CEA, EAMG Project Manager (haiping@aeajournal.org) aeajournal.org