Nikki Rogers provides an overview of her experience, one year on, of being an Enterprise Architect at Bristol University.
Presented at the first JISC Emerging Practices workshop (2012/03/29).
http://emergingpractices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/doing-ea-workshop/
1. The First Year of EA at Bristol
EA Workshop,
March 2012
Nikki Rogers, Enterprise Architect
2. Background to EA at Bristol
• In the years prior to 2011:
• Increased BA activity, Business Case
process development, establishment of
governing body, projects run with Prince2
• EA Foundation programme - JISC
• New EA Role filled Feb 2011
• Now integrating ITIL, EA, Prince2, IT
Project Development Methodology
3. Balancing Tactical with Strategic
• Working on specific projects versus
strategic work
E.g. (Project) Looking for technical or
business process problems in the
Curriculum design change process…
7. Enterprise Architecture – is
What?
• Strategically linking business processes
with ICT
• Coherent plan from Holistic
Approach
• “as is” to “to be”
• Find overlaps, gaps/lack of strategic clarity and
reusable data assets
• Facilitate communication at the enterprise level
18. Using EA Approaches to solve
specific problems
• The Performance Enhancement business
case had established principles and a project
plan, but lacked a vision
• Marks and Assessment – what’s our
operating model?
• Mobile solutions - strategic thinking
alignment
• Public Facing Uni Web – boundary disputes
19. What is our Operating model for
Assessing Students?
20. Adapted from the Book, "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy" by Peter. Weill, Jeanne W.
Ross, David C. Robertson
This part of the model highlights issues in RED e.g. reconciliation of OAT dummy code with chosen codes was not an automated process and it was not clear who was owning that important step (often resulting in duplicate records)
Lightbulb moments!
Why did Uob introduce EA? NB EA more into HE sector, JISC interested in. GAP Example – Performance Enhancement – we lack historical teaching data? Syllabus Plus – data not reused about our teaching over previous years OVERLAP example – PurePortal, Replacement CMS REUSABLE data asset – e.g. MMB (data integrated for delivery via mobile platform) – wanted in the portal – data service for bus transport etc.
Different language spoken in diffferent parts of the organisation – need to cross map thinking from R&D group to the Marketing and Comms office, through to the elearning committee and education strategy group
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2 mins Through EA architecture progress through the stages of ICT Maturity Tech standardisation -> Optimised core = money saving Trade off by the time we reach optimised core -> business modularity… but agility and competitive advantage become far more possible
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1 min Environment Scan – lecture capture – and note data storage (Nick Lieven & Karla – Chris Willmore developing TEL strategy – framework for lecture capture and itunesU)