Soumen Chatterjee is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE technologies, IBM Certified Specialist for Rational Unified Process and Microsoft Certified Professional. Soumen has significant IT experience working with both product development and consulting organizations. He's significantly involved in enterprise application integration, distributed object oriented system development and web service projects starting from inception to transition using Java/J2EE technology to serve global leaders in the finance, health care, insurance and telecom domains. With expertise in architectural methodologies, process development techniques and testing strategies he was a part of the success equation of several leading edge software service organizations. Soumen is currently working as a Lead Consultant with UPCO.

Soumen enjoys writing. He has published several technical papers on architecting, testing and project management in international conferences, architecting journal and internet based publication portals. Soumen is a member of American Computing Machinery (ACM) and member of World Wide Institute of Software Architects.

He is an admirer of agile methodology and has primary interests in EA, MDA, AOP and EAI. Besides software, Soumen likes movies, music, and follows memory mapping technologies. Soumen can be reached at soumenc@acm.org

Presentation
Enterprise Architectural Framework-based Project Management: Missing Art of EA Practice
The golden key to any successful software implementation is the “Master Plan”. However there is no simplistic formula to measure the success of a project. Generally success could be considered as part of a very complex mathematics which is completely controlled by few numbers reflected by adherence to deadlines, budgets and delivery of functionalities with minimum defects.

In order to build an efficient project delivery model enterprise must make a logical separation between a Project Life-Cycle and Enterprise Life-Cycle with the introduction of human aspect covered by the various phases defined in the life-cycle of the system that is designed by the project.

An Enterprise Architectural Framework based project delivery approach enables an organization to adhere the architecture centric, technology driven service execution model. Project management is really the missing art of enterprise architectural practice.

This paper is a strategic state-of-the art guideline enabling your enterprise to build-up an effective enterprise project delivery model that fits into that complex mathematical equation.

Let us reveal the missing art of Enterprise Architecture practice and be a part of this success roadmap.

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