Chief Operating Officer of Real IRM, Paul is one of South Africa’s most dynamic and insightful enterprise architecture 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, IT governance and enterprise architecture. Under Paul’s direction, Real IRM has taken enterprise architecture consulting and education into global markets, and as a consequence South Africa is a world leader in this domain.

Paul is currently the Chair of the Architecture Forum of The Open Group that develops and owns TOGAFTM. He was one of the contributing authors of TOGAF 9 and is on an ongoing basis promoting and encouraging collaborative participation in the development and adoption of TOGAF.

Paul started out as a developer with a major South African software development house. There he developed financial software packages for early PCs. He then established an IT audit function for Unisa before joining Eskom as IT auditor. As information architect at Eskom, Paul played a key role in introducing the Zachman Framework to Eskom. One of his major responsibilities was to assist in the definition of the data architecture.

This was followed by a successful stint as an independent consultant to clients in the financial services, telecommunications and manufacturing industries, where he specialised in software development best practices, including the architected design of business solutions.

Paul joined Real IRM as an enterprise architecture consultant. A certified TOGAF practitioner, he presented the first TOGAF certification course in South Africa. He frequently presents on enterprise architecture, the Zachman Framework and governance, and has trained in these disciplines on three continents. Paul is also 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).

Presentation 1 — Wednesday Plenary
The Journey towards EA
The target state of the Architecture Forum of The Open Group, developed as part of the recently adopted strategy, is: “Broaden the scope of activities within the Architecture Forum from Enterprise IT Architecture to Enterprise Architecture”. Taking the first steps on this journey towards this target state we are faced with a number of challenges and obstacles. This presentation will focus on the destination (target state), the challenges, the stepping stones and the “padkos” that we can take along on this journey.

Presentation 2 — Workshop 2B
TOGAF™ and the Zachman Framework in Practice
Are these two frameworks competing now that TOGAF 9 has a content framework? This workshop will be an interactive workshop, mapping the Zachman Framework to the TOGAF 9 Content Framework. Each participant will walk away with a better understanding of both frameworks as well as some techniques for applying them.

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