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Research
Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  Biography
Dr Tim O'Neill holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree
in Computer Systems and a PhD from the University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS). Currently he is a Research
Fellow in the UTS Institute for Information and Communication
Technologies (IICT) and for the last 2 years has been
the CEO of Avolution Pty Ltd, a UTS spin-off company.
In the last 10 years Dr O’Neill has published
over 20 internationally refereed  papers and consulted
on large systems engineering projects in all sectors
in Australia and overseas. He is currently undertaking
multi-disciplinary, qualitative and quantitative research
and consulting for large-scale, complex enterprises
and systems on behalf of UTS and Avolution Pty Ltd. |
Presentation: Stream
#5
Enterprise Architecture: It’s Not just Art
for Art’s Sake
This is a general presentation on Enterprise Architecture
(EA) and how it is so much more than just box and line diagrams,
even if one is to prescribe the shapes of the boxes and lines
(à la a framework). Almost 500 years ago Dante’s famous
quote “art for art’s sake” warned that
artists were becoming devoted to their craft rather than
their social responsibility. While over 20 years of world-leading
architectural research and practice by the University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS) has resulted in some phenomenal
art (we have patented 7-dimensional representations), it
seems to have been lost by practitioners that the true value
of EA lies in its ability to facilitate quantitative strategic
planning and analysis – i.e. NOT just pretty pictures
to be hung on a wall. Dr O’Neill will present the Five
Steps to Evolution that helps EA to be more than just art
for art’s sake.
Presentation:
Stream #10
The ABACUS Architectural Approach to Software, System
and
Enterprise Evolution
This presentation will demonstrate a worked-example of the
revolutionary Architecture-Based Analysis of Complex Systems
(ABACUS)
methodology and toolset from the University of Technology,
Sydney and
Avolution Pty Ltd.
Areas covered in the presentation will be;
- Architectural Discovery i.e. reconstruction and population
in accordance with various frameworks
- Analysis in accordance with various metrics or quality
attributes
- Visualisation including revolutionary 7-dimensional
representations
- Optimisation from "as-is" to "to-be" solutions
 return
to program
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