Charles holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Natal in Durban South Africa. The first seventeen years he founded and ran a small eight person software development consultancy in South Africa taking on small, successful agile projects, spanning many technologies. This exposure kept him close to the coal-face.

He got into Object Oriented software development early. His interest have always been in Architecture and  Modelling. This led to UML and Enterprise Architecture. For three years in the mid 1990's he consulted for IBM as a Technology Enterprise Architect. From 1998 he has been worked in London (city) on much larger 100+ man financial projects specializing in Process Engineering. Starting as the development manager for a large dot com, and working with banks, financial organizations and a Telco doing Mentoring on RUP implementations using IBM Rational toolsets, Requirements, Architecture, UML, Configuration & change control management.

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Establishing a TOGAF based Enterprise Architecture Practice using IBM Rational's toolset - quickly

Agile Enterprise Architects cannot wait for lengthy tool evaluations to complete in order to begin the process of establishing an enterprise Architecture. One has to remain pragmatic and in an environment of constant change, use whatever you have at your disposal. Fortunately the organization already had some of the key ingredient tools required to fulfill many of the EA principles that TOGAF demand.

Keeping the company anonymous the talk will show how the IBM Rational tools worked for us in controlling the initial set of work products. The tools used were:

• 1. ClearCase for Configuration management,
• 2. RequisitePro for the database aspects; lists, primitives, viewpoints and views, cross-referencing and dependency traceability. Generated Soda reports.
• 3. Rational Software Architect for UML Modelling the meta model, our Process model & the Enterprise model.
• 4. ClearQuest for change control, on managing Risk, changes, actions, etc.

The pro's and con's will be discussed. Also opportunities for IBM to enhance their offering to be more EA useful.

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