Enterprise Architecture and Agility

Shahid's comments at the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Enterprise Architecture Committee's event on Agile BA and EA.

Transcript

1. Chasing business agility using
   Enterprise Architecture (EA)
   Common EA pitfalls
   By Shahid N. Shah, CEO
   

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   Who is Shahid?
   • 20+ years of business/enterprise architecture, design,
   software engineering, and information assurance
   (security) in embedded, desktop, and enterprise
   environments such as
   – FISMA-regulated government systems
   – FDA-regulated medical devices and systems
   – HIPAA-regulated health IT systems
   • Have held positions at CTO, Chief Architect, or
   Enterprise Architect in a variety of regulated
   environments
   

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   What’s this talk about?
   Background
   • What it means to chase business
   agility
   • What happens when we business
   owners don’t get agility from their
   Enterprise Architecture (EA) and
   business architecture (BA) efforts
   Key takeaways
   • There aren’t perfect scripts to follow
   for BA/EA success but there are
   numerous mistakes to avoid
   • Which BA/EA key practices lead to
   the most success
   

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   It’s hard to create BA and EA
   that end-users actually find
   useful in their pursuit of solving
   real-world business problems.
   

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   How do you know if your business is agile?
   Speed of response
   to new customer
   needs
   Permission-oriented
   culture
   Value generation
   efficiency for
   enterprise initiatives
   Coupling vs.
   Teaming between
   enterprise
   components
   Mapping of
   strategic initiatives
   to customer needs
   vs. enterprise needs
   Number of Shadow
   IT systems
   Business-use EA
   artifacts vs. tech use
   artifacts
   Compliance-focus
   vs. customer focus
   Agility is hard to define but it’s easy to see when it’s missing
   

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   What can you measure?
   Customer acquisition,
   engagement, or
   retention focused
   metrics
   Product roadmap
   focused metrics
   Top line revenue
   metrics
   Margin metrics
   (bottom line)
   Process efficiency
   metrics
   Logistics and product
   delivery metrics
   Technical and IT
   metrics (apps,
   sunsets, TCO)
   If you can’t measure it and can’t document it, does it exist?
   

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   Focus on the real customer
   Corporate
   Customers
   Partners
   Corporate
   Users
   IT
   Personnel
   Unsophisticated and
   less agile focus
   Sophisticated and
   more agile focus
   Inside-out focus Outside-in focus
   

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   Your EA and BA is successful when
   its activities are pragmatic, fit for
   purpose, and useful.
   You’ve failed if you haven’t created a framework
   for rapid and adaptable decision making.
   

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9. Thank You
   Visit
   http://www.netspective.com
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   E-mail shahid.shah@netspective.com
   Follow @ShahidNShah
   Call 202-713-5409
   

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