Rakesh Radhakrishnan is a Lead IT Architect in the Communications Market Area of Sun Client Solutions. He has covered Telecom Companies, Network Equipment Providers (NEP) and Service Provider accounts in Europe, Canada, USA and Latin America.

He has over 15 years of experience and has an MBA (MIS) and MS (MIT). He is an active member of Customer Engineering Technology Council (CETC) and was the Chairman of a Working Group on Container Alignment Engine (CAE patent received from Europe and US) at Sun. He has published more that 15 papers on IT Architectures (Frameworks, Process and Techniques) and is a frequent speaker in conferences including OMG, TOG, CMG, IRM, SuperG, SunNetwork, Java ONE, etc. He has led multiple Architecture Workshops and Architecture Assessments for IT Consolidation and Network Identity projects. He was recently featured on Officer Outlook for his work on Aligning Architectural Approaches (Sun's WS-Incite Award for 2005).

Rakesh is also Certified by TOG (on TOGAF 8), SEI (as a SW Architect) and OGC (Prince 2 and ITIL). He has Green Belt Six Sigma training and is a ECCSE (Enterprise Computing Certified Systems Engineer -Competency 2000) and as a Systems Architect Pro (from Peoplesoft).

Presentation
Aligning ADM with ADDM

PDF document: SYNERGIZING METHDOLOGIES TO ACHIEVE ARCHITECTURE TARGETS (Includes TOOLS & TECHNIQUES)

The Architecture Development Methodology (ADM) as an Enterprise Architecture Methodology from The Open Group (TOG) already refers to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method (ATAM) and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM/I) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), at the appropriate stages (Phase 3 of ADM and as reference for Architecture Maturity Models).

This presentation will highlight the alignment that exists between the Attribute-Driven Design Method (ADDM) from SEI as a Information System Design Method (Effective implementation of both Data and Application Architecture) and the respective Architecture Creation Phase in the ADM.

The ADDM is based on knowing both the functional and quality requirements for your systems and knowing the architectural approaches and architectural patterns that have proven successful in achieving those qualities in other systems. It is a iterative process and also included the ATAM. It can include Enterprise level standards, constraints and guidance as key inputs in the initial stages, including artifacts from an EA effort based on TOGAF, stemming from the SIB (standards information base), TRM (technical reference model), the IIIRM (integrated information infrastructure reference model) and any ABB (Architectural Building Blocks), such as a Standard Enterprise Identity System and its API that can be leveraged across a family of systems.

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