Excerpts from the definitive guide for any Person setting up an Enterprise Architecture Capability or a Team

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Webinar: A Leader’s Approach
to Establishing and Evolving an
EA Capability
By Dave Hornford & Sriram Sabesan of Conexiam
10 March, 2016

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Final Thought
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Agenda
» Who we are
» Why This Guide
» Structure of the Guide
» Key Takeaways
» Leader’s Guide and TOGAF
» Q&A

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Who Conexiam, Dave & Sri are
» Conexiam is a specialist enterprise architecture firm
» Key Services
– Straightforward & executable enterprise architecture
– Enhance in-house EA capability
» Very active in industry standards development
– Open Group & SABSA Institute
– TOGAF® & IT4IT® Standards
– Data Lake, Digital Customer & EA Capability papers
» Dave, Conexiam Managing Partner
» Sri, Conexiam Consultant

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Why This Guide
» Demand from EA practitioners
» Demand from TOGAF standard community
» Provides guidance on how to make the TOGAF standard
actionable
– Establish & enhance an EA Capability
» Built from experience developing EA Capability at clients
– Conexiam only does EA & EA Capability development

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Terms & References
» Capability
– Not Team, Department, or Practice
» Leader
– Not Chief Architect, Department Head, Manager, or Vice-
President
» Referenced Technique
– Key literature and techniques are only representative. Other
techniques and key literature can readily be substituted.

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Structure of the Guide
» Part 1: Guidance on Context
– Enterprise Context and EA Context
– Business Objectives for the EA Capability
» Part 2: Guidance on Structure
– Architecture Governance
– Alignment with Other Frameworks
– Customization of Architecture Contents and Metamodel
– Organization Model for the EA Team
– Process Model
» Part 3: Realizing your EA Capability
– Create the EA Capability Roadmap
– EA Capability Model
– Establishing the EA Capability
» Part 4: Mapping to the TOGAF Framework
– Mapping the EA Leader’s Approach to the TOGAF Framework
– Mapping the EA Leader’s Approach to TOGAF ADM Phases
– Mapping EA Content, EA Leader’s Approach, and Metamodel

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Key Takeaways
» TOGAF framework provides essential universal scaffolding
» Customization is necessary for value
– Customization is not where most people expect
People usually start too far down the path and forget about
alignment to requirements and expectation
– Too often people skip the hard parts of a framework
– most of the value is in the hard part

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Start with Context
» Every Enterprise has a different context
» Without an explicit understanding of context every EA
effort will fail
– What is your enterprise facing
– What is the context of your EA Capability

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Key Takeaways
» It varies to nature and need
– Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures
– Stalled strategic growth in a specific market segment
– Impact of disruption
– Restructuring or retooling the Enterprise
– Investor confidence problems from operational cost or unrealized R&D
spend
– Inability to decide through information, communication, and technology
complexity
– Inability to decide the balance of future gains against business-as-usual
– Fear of recurrence of latest fiasco (be it supply chain, security, or IT project)
– Perceived disruptive changes in operational practice
(automation, cloud, outsourcing)

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Fitting in
» Gain an understanding of:
• Business Model
• Operating Model
• Organization Model
• Econometric Model
• Accountability Model
• Risk Management Model
» Frankly, understand your enterprise

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Key Takeaways
» Watch for baggage
– What have you assumed about your enterprise & EA
» Is the EA Capability aligned to revenue?
– Informs the level of autonomy, influence, and focus the EA Capability
» How EA Capability is Paid-For?
– Capital Expense = Tangible Value Delivery
– Operating Expense = Varying Expectations
» Who do you work for?
Frankly it does not matter - you will evolve to the right organization if you deliver

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EA Capability is
Purpose Driven
» EA to support Strategy:
– End-to-end target architecture.
– Roadmaps of change over a three to ten-year period.
– Span many change programs, or portfolios & Create Initiatives and Portfolios
» EA to support Portfolio:
– Cross-functional, multi-phase, and multi-project change initiatives
– Architecture is used to identify projects and govern their execution
» EA to support Project:
– Support the Enterprise’s project delivery method.
– Architectural governance and to support integration and alignment between projects
» EA to support Third Parties:
– Support Procurement
– Governance framework for change

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Governance & Alignment
» Governance
– Direction & Control
» Govern
– What the EA Capability works on
– Creation of the Architecture
– Change to the Enterprise
– Risk
» Components
– Articulate Right Direction
– Select Best Controls
– Appropriate Management
– Implement / Manage
– Course Correct
» There is no single alignment model
– Successful teams are aligned to appropriate operating context

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Key Takeaways
» Governance model and approach is different from Execution
– Step 2 separates determining Governance approach from designing the
Process
» Setup Governance Model as early as necessary
– not any later
– not any sooner
– expect it to change
» Plan when and how to execute
– Process alignment
– Fit in & fill-out
» Risk
– Enterprise Risk Management not project risk

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Operational elements
» EA Team & Structure
– You will not have a unified team
» Content Model and Meta Model
– Start at the problem being solved
» Performance Evaluation of EA
– Useful & used advice
» Capacity Management
– Resources & time to deliver
before decision & good enough
» Architecture Process Model
– You always use the ADM
– The ADM is not linear & not a process

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Key Takeaways
» Recommendation from EA must be before decision
– Planning and Budgeting Cycle
– Business Case & Project Initiation
– Perfect work the day after decision is less valuable than sufficient work the day before
» Work on what must be
» Recommend Capabilities to invest in
» Content Framework
– There is not a universal answer
• Consider EA for Strategy & EA for 3rd Party
• Consider depth of description
• Consider important of risk when transforming & incrementally improving
– You cannot adopt useful contents without knowing purpose
• Identify the concerns and the viewpoints that address purpose
• Viewpoint library will define your content metamodel

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Leader’s Guide and TOGAF
Part 4: A real walk through the ADM
Topic Mapping to TOGAF ADM Phase
Enterprise Context and EA
Context
Partial Strategic Level Phase B
Enterprise context:
 Goals, objectives, initiatives, competitive and
tactic analysis
 Operating model (partners, suppliers, etc.)
 Explore what-if scenarios and scorecards
EA context specific for the EA Capability:
 Goals
Business Objectives for the EA
Capability
Capability Level Phase A
For the EA Capability:
 Provide initial goals and objectives
 Select a reference EA Capability and maturity
model
 Candidate EA Capability
 Candidate operating model
 EA Capability gap and priority roadmap

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Leader’s Guide and TOGAF
Part 4: A real walk through the ADM
Section of Paper ADM Phase & Level
Enterprise Context and EA Context (see page 18) Partial Strategic Level Phase B for the Enterprise
Business Objectives for the EA Capability
(see page 34)
Capability Level Phase A For the EA Capability:
Architecture Governance (see page 43) Partial Segment/Capability Level Phase B For the Enterprise
Alignment with Other Frameworks (see page 50) Partial Capability Level Phase B & Partial Phase C (Data) For the Enterprise
Customization of Architecture Contents and Metamodel
(see page 53)
Capability Level Phase C (Data) For the EA Capability:
Organization Model for the EA Team (see page 60) Partial Capability Level Phase B for the EA Capability
Process Model (see page 75)
Partial Capability Level Phase B for the Enterprise
Capability Level Phase C (App) for the EA Capability
Capability Level Phase D for the EA Capability
Create the EA Capability Roadmap (see page 86) Capability Level Phase E for the EA Capability
Establishing the EA Capability (see page 92)
Capability Level Phase F
Capability Level Phase G
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