The document discusses establishing an architecture governance framework. It recommends forming an Architecture Board to align IT with business strategy and goals. The Board would include business and IT stakeholders to provide market context, prioritize needs, and enforce compliance. The Board's roles would include developing architectural principles, reviewing projects, and managing changes. Next steps outlined establishing templates, principles, gathering current architectures, and defining business requirements.

1. Architecture Board &
GovernanceKey to Running IT as Business
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2. Agenda
Goals & Objectives
Enterprise Architect Role
Enterprise Architecture Framework
Architecture Governance?
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What is Architecture Governance?
Approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance
Conceptual Structure Governance Framework
Architecture Board
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What is Architecture Board?
Role of Architecture Board
Operation of the Architecture Board
Board Structure
Next Steps
Q&A
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3. Goals & Objectives
Goals:
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To educate you about the architecture, architecture governance process
Get your buy in for this process
Objectives:
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Outline the Architecture Board Structure
Outline the Next step
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4. Enterprise Architect Role
Strategize
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Understand Corporate Strategy for future
Contribute to the Strategy
Ensure Strategy is understood
Model the Future Strategy
Specify Migration Strategy
Architect
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Understand the current state
Lead the process of architecting desired future state
Identify the gaps between current state and future state
Develop approaches to close the gaps
Reduce the number and complexity of the interfaces between the components
Lead
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Lead the charge of change
Maintain architecture components
Develop the core architecture team
Govern
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Bring positive change through effective governance
Establish a cross-organization architecture board.
Develop a formal architecture compliance review process
Communicate
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Ensure that all aspect of enterprise architecture are communicated effectively
Analyze feedback
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5. Enterprise Architecture Framework
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6. Architecture Governance
What is Architecture Governance?
Approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance
Conceptual Structure Governance Framework
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7. What is Architecture Governance?
Architecture Governance: Conceptually it is an approach, a set of
processes, and a set of owned responsibilities that ensure the integrity
and effectiveness of the organization’s architecture.
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Addresses the governance roles and processes required for maintaining Enterprise
Architecture.
Provides framework and structure that links IT (Information Technology) resources to
Business goals.
Introduces good business practice:
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For planning, acquiring, implementing, and monitoring IT performance.
Ensures that the enterprise’s Information Technology assets support its business objectives.
Architecture Governance is a board level responsibility
(Executives, Sr. Manager)
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8. Approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance
To enable business to achieve its goals and objectives,- the
enterprise architecture must be shaped by:
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Architectural Principles embraced by the whole enterprise (examples of principles are
- Data is an asset, Information Management is everybody’s responsibility, ease of
use, Business Continuity etc)
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The principles:
– Are enduring general rules and guidelines that inform and support the way an organization
sets about fulfilling its mission.
– Provide the context within which business requirements are expressed.
– Are derived from the overall business objectives
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Business Domain Views describing the enterprise architecture from the perspective
of key stake holder's viewpoint (Usability view, business goals view, data security
view, business function view, business service view etc).
Architecture compliance process and strategy should be adopted.
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9. Conceptual Structure – Governance
Framework
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10. Architecture Board
What is an Architecture Board?
Role of Architecture Board
Operation of the Architecture Board
Board Structure
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11. What is Architecture Board?
Is a cross-organizational body (members with diverse knowledge
about the business (SMEs) and its competition) to see the
implementation of business strategy and goals. The Board:
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Provides contextual understanding of what is going on in market.
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Market Trends
Changes
Market Forces
Market opportunities
Participates in the development of architecture principles (principles are drivers for
defining functional requirements for the architecture)
Prioritize the business needs
Enforces the architecture compliance
Ensures that the discipline of architecture-based development is adopted
Develops architecture review process and periodically review architecture
components.
Participates in Architecture Change Management Processes.
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12. Operation of Architecture Board
Should conduct review of architecture components on a periodic
basis to monitor the success of architecture.
Work with various group within the organization to:
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Resolve the issues
Expand the scope of the architecture
Review the projects
Identify triggers that indicate a necessary change in the architecture
Conduct Architecture Board meeting with defined agenda and
explicit objectives
Issue Architecture Contract to Implementation community
Participate in IT procurement and IT Planning
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13. Board Structure for Noteworthy
President/Operation Director
Stewardship
Alignment
Program
Management office
Architecture Board
Alignment
Risk
Management
Guidance
Enterprise Architect
Conformance
Service
Management
Monitoring
Implementation
Projects
Change
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System
Enterprise Architecture Continuum
Architecture
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Architectures
Processes
Templates
Standards
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14. Next Steps
Develop Template for Architecture Principles
Develop Architecture Principles & vision and Distribute to the key people (IT &
Business)
Identify and define the value-added major functional areas (Market management,
Sales Force, Logistics, Service etc)
Describe and Prioritize the business problem.
Define key business requirements to be addressed into the architecture effort.
Develop Business Architecture Blueprint Structure/Framework
Involve in gathering current state/baseline architecture
Architecture
Principles
Development of
Architecture
Implementation
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15. Template for Architecture Principles
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16. Q&A
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Contact:
Syed Suhail Ahmad
Enterprise Steward LLC
21 Oxford Drive
Latham, NY 12110
http://www.enterprisesteward.com
Direct: 1866-5831331
Cell:518-331-7245
Fax: 1866-583-1331
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