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Enterprise Architecture and Agility

Enterprise Architecture and Agility

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

Shahid N. Shah

April 02, 2013
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  1. Chasing business agility using
    Enterprise Architecture (EA)
    Common EA pitfalls
    By Shahid N. Shah, CEO

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  2. NETSPECTIVE
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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
    http://www.healthcareguy.com
    E-mail [email protected]
    Follow @ShahidNShah
    Call 202-713-5409

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