Guy is a founding associate of Doriq Associates, specialising in developing turnkey EA offerings. He is a recognised thought leader on corporate information control practices and Enterprise Architecture, being a pioneer in implementing strong metadata-driven backbones to drive IT management activities. He has over 25 years experience helping large organisations migrate to well-architected approaches, and has authored books on metadata and data management.  

Presentation
Building a Metadata Backbone for EA
Within an Enterprise Architecture function, several complex bodies of knowledge have to be brought together. Knowledge structured and managed within an EA repository tool, an EA management process and according to a particular framework must be reconciled. Whilst important and complementary, these knowledgebases conflict at a detailed level causing  unnecessary work, at best, and totally undermining EA as a discipline, at worst. Knowledge must also be managed in conjunction with other disciplines ­ e.g. Business Strategy, Compliance and IT development - all of which have their own methods and implied structures. This presentation explains how cohesive knowledge management is achieved through a common metamodel backbone, which is mapped to each separate area of knowledge, and used to control consistency between them.

Audience:
EA Professionals and Managers with some early experience

Key takeaways:
1. An understanding of the way to structure knowledge for EA
2. How to use this structure to undepin choices and use of frameworks, tools and methods

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