Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference The Open Group
  Paul van der Merwe & Sarina Viljoen, RealIRM, South Africa  


#Paul is one of South Africa’s most dynamic and insightful and enterprise architects IT practitioners. A conceptual thinker, he has driven a number of advances in the fields in which he has specialised, among them software development, business intelligence, and now enterprise architecture. Under Paul’s direction, Real IRM has taken enterprise architecture consulting and training into global markets, and as a consequence South Africa is a world leader in this domain.

Paul is a certified TOGAF practitioner and a respected academic who presents a post-graduate course in the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria. He is a member of the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Computer Society of South Africa and the Information System Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

Sarina ViljoenSarina is a business and IT professional with over fifteen years of experience in the various facets of enterprise architecture. Sarina established an Enterprise Architecture practice in South Africa’s incumbent telecommunications provider where she fulfilled the role of the Chief Architect during her tenure as the global design authority chair.  Having faced the challenges of working for a large business within the Information and Communications Technology industry, Sarina understands the practical implications of establishing an enterprise architecture and the value enterprise architecture can provide to the business.

Prior to telecommunications, Sarina was responsible for the model-driven architecture for a materials management solution for the Defence industry, implemented both locally and abroad.

Sarina holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and a Master of Science (Management of Innovation and Technology) from the Da Vinci Institute of Technology. Her dissertation focused on the influence that enterprise architecture has on information flow within an organization.

 

   
 

Presentation

What level of rigour should be applied to define an ADM?

This will be an interactive workshop based on key ADM implementation questions such as:

  • Is the ADM at an appropriate level of detail to implement in organisations?
  • Do you need to define deliverable templates for Business, Data, Application and Technology Architecture?
  • How do you assign role accountability?
  • How do you govern the ADM implementation?

The presenters would share two opposing views on these questions based on actual implementations in customer organisations. The workshop participants would have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion and support one of the views.

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