Graham McLeod is the founder of Inspired and has 30 years experience in the IT industry, 17 years in general management and 13 years academic teaching and research. He has developed methods for strategy, data management, systems delivery, project management and enterprise architecture.

Graham is the author of several books and has consulted to over 40 organizations in SA, UK, Europe and the USA.

He is the primary architect of the Inspired EA Frameworks and the Archi/EA Webmodeler tool.

Graham has presented courses, papers, seminars and keynotes worldwide and is recognised as an EA thought leader.

Presentation
The Case for Collaborative, Distributed Modeling

For too long the architecture effort in many organizations has been concentrated in the hands of a few experts, usually in a central location. In other cases, where work is done by various groups (e.g. process, applications, data, technical) it is extremely difficult to integrate the outputs/models of the various groups meaningfully and to achieve a coherent "big picture". Problems include scope, notation, nomenclature, naming, timing, ownership and language.

This talk covers how these issues can be addressed by consistent, shared meta models, standards, education; distributing the architecture effort; and new tools which support distributed collaborative modeling. Advantages include: higher quality input and models; acceleration of the architecture effort; higher levels of buy-in across the organization leading to higher architectural compliance and associated benefits.

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