Presenter

Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS (Canada)

Jason Uppal, is a professional engineer registered in the province of Ontario, Canada. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, a graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.

Jason is recognized expert in Business Process Re-Engineering, Continuous Improvement and Automation. His Value Delivery skills transcended him to Enterprise Architecture and were awarded Master IT Architect certification by the Open Group in 2005. Since then he has successfully completed the re-certification in 2008. Jason is an active member of Enterprise Architecture community, a frequent speaker at many EA and IT governance related conferences and member of Architect Certification board since 2005.

Jason  holds Chief Architect position with QRS (www.quickresponse.ca). His latest research interest include, Define Explicit relationship between  EA Maturity, Investment  Complexity  and Business Value,    IT Organization of the Future and Testability of Architecture Requirements.  For further discussion, he can be reached at Jason.uppal@quickresponse.ca

Presentation

TOGAF Based EA Practice

Motivation:
Expose practicing and aspiring Architect to:

• Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) that is based on open standards such as TOGAF, PPM, ITSM and OCM
• Discuss how an EA Practice can help generate tangible business value by exploiting these standard

Pre-Requite:

• Awareness of these standards

Agenda:

• Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle and TOGAF – Business Value Delivery Context and Architecture Services catalogue
• RESPONSIBILITIES and ACCOUNTABILITIES of Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects/Planners and Domain Architects  roles based on TOGAF Skills Framework
• EA Practice Maturity (CMMI) and Value Delivery Capability
• Other Topics
• EA Performance Metric
• Tools for EA
• The Open Group’s Support for EA Skills and Competencies
• Summarize EALC Process and Characteristics of the Gaps

Expected Outcome;

Candidates should be able to  define the EA life cycle, assess Gaps and develop both a personal and organization EA development plan.