Agile Enterprise Architecture Operating Model
Make your enterprise architecture operating model relevant.
Establish an enterprise architecture practice that:
- Leverages an operating model that promotes/supports agility within the organization.
- Embraces business, data, application, and technology architectures in an optimal mix.
- Is Agile in itself and will be sustainable and reactive to business needs, staying relevant and “profitable” – continuously delivering business value.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Use your business and EA strategy and design principles to right-size standardized operating models to fit your EA organization’s needs.
- You need to define a sound set of design principles before commencing with the design of your EA organization.
- The EA operating model structure should be rigid but pliable enough to fit the needs of the stakeholders it provides services to.
- A phased approach and a good communication strategy is key to the success of the new EA organization.
- Start with one group and work out the hurdles before rolling it out organization-wide.
- Make sure that you communicate regularly on wins but also on hurdles and how to overcome them.
Impact and Result
- The organization design approach proposed will aim to provide twofold
agility:
- By recognizing that agility comes in different flavors, organizations using more traditional design patterns will also benefit from the approach advocated by this blueprint.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Design your EA operating model
- Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges.
- Call 2: Assess current maturity.
- Call 3: Identify target-state capabilities.
Guided Implementation 2: Define your EA organizational structure
- Call 1: identify relationship between current initiatives and capabilities.
- Call 2: Create initiative profiles.
Guided Implementation 3: Implement the EA operating model
- Call 1: Identify strategy risks.
- Call 2: Identify required budget.
- Call 3: Identify and prioritize improvements.
- Call 4: Summarize results and plan next steps.
Contributors
- Cameron Fairbairn, Enterprise Architect, Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC)
- Michal Jordan-Rozwadowski, Vice President, Information Systems and Technology, Porter Airlines
- Wayne Peters, Independent IT Consultant
- Raul Vomisescu, Principal Consultant, Felmer Consulting
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