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Architecture Vision: Set and confirm the expectations for an enterprise architecture project
Goals: Preliminary
Develop Architecture Vision
The main goal of phase A is to set and confirm the expectations for an enterprise
architecture project. You need to build consensus with the sponsoring organization and
gain their approvals before you can continue to subsequent phases.
Define Stakeholders A
You need to identify the key stakeholders and their concerns,
and define the key requirements to be addressed. H B
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Phase A - Architecture Vision
Vision Mission
Principles &
Capabilities
Policies
Enterprise
Strategy Functions Processes Architecture
Technology Information
Objectives Goals
Architecture strategies deliver business-driven priorities which impact business processes, people
and technology.
Architecture principles and practices guide Provides a fast-track process for planning,
enterprise through the business, information, analysing, and executing the entire EA process
process, and technology changes necessary to to meet desired organizational objectives.
execute their strategies.
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Identify Stakeholders in Architecture Development
Find out the key stakeholders of the architecture activities as well as their key concerns:
Typically, stakeholder are people who are affected by the architecture, who have influence or power over it, or have an interest in its
successful or unsuccessful conclusion.
It might include senior executives, project organization roles, client organization roles, system developers, alliance partners,
suppliers, IT operations, customers, etc.
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State their Concerns
Stakeholder Key Concerns Class Deliverables
CIO
Enterprise Architects
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Describe the Kind and Level of Involvement
Stakeholder Key Concerns Class Deliverables
CIO
Enterprise Architects
Level of Interest
Describe the kind and level of involvement for each stakeholder by specifying their classes:
Some of the stakeholders may have the power either to block or advance. Some may be interested in knowing whats going on;
others may not be so interested.
By stating the class, the team can easily see which stakeholders have the power and the authority to request changes or to stop any
initiatives, and which stakeholders are likely to support the initiative.
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State Stakeholders Interests
Stakeholder Key Concerns Class Deliverables
CIO
Enterprise Architects
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List and Describe the Issues / Scenarios
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Project Background An Example
ArchiSurance was formed to take advantage of numerous synergies between the three
organizations. While the three pre-merger companies sold different types of insurance, they had
similar business models. All three sold direct to consumers and businesses through the web, email,
telephone, and postal mail channels. Although based in different cities, each was completely
housed in a modern office complex in a major metropolitan area. Each had loyal customer bases
and strong reputations for integrity, value, service, and financial stability. All three companies
were privately held by interlocking groups of institutional and individual investors.
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List of Issues An Example
The lead investors of the three companies began merger talks after they noticed that lower-cost
competitors were entering their markets, that there were new opportunities in high-growth
regions, and that each company required significant new IT investments to remain competitive.
They realized that only a larger, combined company could simultaneously control its costs,
maintain its customer satisfaction, invest in new technology, and take advantage of emerging
markets with high growth potential. The merger negotiations and regulatory approvals took 18
months, but two years ago the papers were signed and the merger was complete. The new
company offers all the insurance products of the three pre-merger companies, and intends to
frequently adjust its offerings in response to changing market conditions. Like its three
predecessors, ArchiSurance sells directly to customers via web, email, telephone, and postal mail
channels, and indirectly via intermediaries.
An important technique that may be used at various stages of the enterprise architecture,
principally the Architecture Vision and the Business Architecture phase.
They are used to help identify and to understand business needs, and thereby to derive the
business requirements that the architecture development has to address.
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Discover the Driver of Changes
by deriving them from stakeholders Improve Competitiveness
Board Customer
Profitability
Stakeholders
Represent (groups of) persons or organizations that
influence, guide, or constrain the enterprise.
Revenue Costs Drivers
Represent internal or external factors which influence the
plans and aims of an enterprise.
An understanding of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in relation to these drivers will
help the formation of plans and aims to appropriately address these issues. Stakeholder
Driver
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Assess the Drivers to Identify the Challenges
by deriving them from stakeholders Improve Competitiveness
Profitability
Revenue Costs
Profitability
Customers Choose our
Competitors that Provide High Personnel Costs
Digital Customer Experiences
Revenue Costs
Examples of such internal drivers are customer satisfaction, compliance to legislation, or profitability.
Driver
It is common for enterprises to undertake an assessment of these drivers
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Identify Goals based on the Result of Assessments
Profitability
Customers Choose our
Competitors that Provide High Personnel Costs
Digital Customer Experiences
Revenue Costs
Improve Customer
Introduce the Common Use of Applications
Retention
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Identify High Level Requirements
Profitability
Customers Choose our
Competitors that Provide High Personnel Costs
Digital Customer Experiences
Revenue Costs
Provide Competitive
Introduce the Common Use of Applications
Premium Services
Support for Smart Utilize the Insights Maintain Establish a Shared Back
Requirement
Device Integration of Customer Behaviors CRM Data Centrally Office for All Products
Capability
Digital Customer Support for Policy Support for Financial
Data Driven Insurance Administration
Management Transactions
Application Service
CRC Data Policy
Business goal must be realized by a plan or concrete change Administration Services Financial Services
Access
goal, which may or may not require a new system or Application
changes to an existing system. Component
General CRM ArchiSurance Back
System Office Suite
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Examine the Goals
Ensure that they do align with the principles. (Update of principles is allowed)
Reduce
Reduce Personnel Costs
Maintenance Costs
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Single System of Record Common Use of Applications
for Each Data Element
Principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring. Principles are strongly related to goals and requirements.
The principle provides a means to realize its motivating goal, which is generally formulated as a guideline.
Goal
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Principles
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Develop Communications Plan
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Developing Communication Plan
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Identify Stakeholders
grouped by communication requirements
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Describe each type of the Communication Type
Type of Comm. Purpose Presenter Audience Time/Freqency Documentation
Kickoff Meeting Introduction of project Project Manager Project Team Start of iteration Meeting minutes
team and project. Review Team Lead
the goal of iteration.
3 State the stakeholder who will present the information. Communication need not to be a face to face
conversation, or meeting. It can be a report of
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status or progress. So in such case, documents like
And state who will receive the information. progress report, project log will be created.
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Identify the Responsibilities of Stakeholders
Once the types of communication are listed, state the responsibilities of the stakeholders.
Kickoff Meeting
Meeting Minutes R
Internal Project Status Meeting
Meeting Minutes R
Notes of Keywork items C RA
Issue Log
Issue Log A R
Project Status Reporting
Meeting Minutes
Newsletter I I C I R
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Confirm the Principles, Goals, and Drivers
Business
Principles
Business Business
Goals Drivers
In the Preliminary Phase you have identified a set of business principles, goals and drivers.
Now in phase A, you have a deeper understanding about the architecture activities to be performed, you may now revise and confirm
the business principles, goals and drivers before continue.
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Develop Capability Assessment
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What is a Capability?
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Strategic Planning
In strategic planning it is valuable to understand the capabilities within the enterprise, especially the business and IT
capabilities, because you want to know if any capabilities needs to strengthen or add to implement the strategic and
operational changes envisages.
For business you may have business management as a capability, which can be split further into capabilities like the
management of strategic, fiscal and accounting, risk and compliance, and performance.
From this example you can also see the difference between business functions and capabilities, which are often
confused because something an organization deliver, must be something its capable to do.
But as you can see, when considering capabilities we focus on the expertise and capacity, instead of describing pieces
of works done by an organization.
We have applications and management, which involves application design and architecture, development, testing
and quality assurance and change management.
Again, capabilities are not any services or functions or development unit but the expertise it has in achieving certain
strategic needs.
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Business and IT Capabilities - Examples
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Model Capabilities with ArchiMate Diagram
Business Management
Business Support
Organizational
HR Management Process Management Office Management Facility Management IT Management
Development
This is the capability map viewpoint of ArchiMate. It allows business architect to create a structured overview of the capabilities of the
enterprise.
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Specify the Risks for Business Transformation
For each capability, evaluate the following: Maturity. Is the capability mature enough to satisfy the
Business risk. Will there be any business issues arised causing by a proposed target?
target capability after the transformation?
Mitigation activities. What measures will be taken to mitigate
IT and infrastructure risk. If its an IT capability, will there be any the risks?
outstanding system or infrastructure issues caused by this
capability after the transformation?
Migration Activities
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Develop Statement of Architecture Work
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Request for Architecture Work
The Request for Architecture Work was issued from the Sponsoring Organization in the
Preliminary Phase.
Request for
Architecture Work
By the end of the preliminary phase, which is the previous phase, the sponsoring organization has
issued the Request for Architecture Work that states the needs of architecture development.
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Statement of Architecture Work
In this phase, you need to submit a Statement of Architecture Work based on the Principles set by
the Project Sponsors and the findings in this phase
Statement of
Architecture Work
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Approval of This Document
Review and agree the plans with the sponsors, and secure
formal approval of the Statement of Architecture Work under
the appropriate governance procedures
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Statement of Architecture Work - Content
Communications plan
Approvals
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f P h a s e A
Resu l t o
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Results
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