EA = a process/approach to embedding business development and change in an institutions. It provides guidance about how to implement strategy. It offers a way of moving a team's capabilities on, managing and controlling the capabilities.
The road to value defines the pathway to an EA practitioner:
Explorer -> Adapter -> Implementer -> Achieve -> Practitioner
Book recommendation: "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy", Ross, Weill, Robertson
Further funding to be made available via the JISC FSD Programme will focus on EA approach
Biils methodology = cost benefits analysis
TOGAF = The Open Group Architecture Framework
Governance (buy-in from SMT) is essential for successful EA adoption
Architecture Modelling Tool - (based on Archimate) - developed by JISC CETIS. An open source tool which aims to fill the gap between simple diagramming and more complex vendor tools.
http://www.archimate.org/
Example of modelling -
1) Staffordshire Uni: developing TOGAF and model. jiscenable.blogspot.com and projects.staffs.ac.uk/enable
2) Roehampton Uni: sets of work packages rather than dependency flow chart
3) Liverpool John Moores Uni: uses EA as a strategy to manage projects in general
Is that all they have covered this morning
ReplyDeleteThere was more - these are just the salient points that I wanted to capture. I didnt copy down presentation bullet points, as these will be made available...
ReplyDeleteNice points Sarah I think it picked up that everyone in the group was begining to see EA as a tool to support change across the institution rather than as isolated change projects - interesting you picked up on the same thing as Sam with Roehampton that the views/ models seemed to be very separate. Will have to find out more about how they have linked the models. Will admit I'm v interested in the open software CETIS are developing, could make life easier to begin with at least (although can see that some people might have to make the move to the commercial software like BizzDesign as the model grows)
ReplyDelete