Graham has been in academia and the IT industry for over 30 years.

He is Chief Architect and Chairman of a leader in the EA methods and tools space. He is author of several books and the Inspired EA frameworks, and architect of Enterprise Value Architect Toolset.

Graham is also a certified TOGAF Architect and trainer.

Presentation

Engaging Real Business People in Real Business Architecture

We often hear I.T. Architects complain that the business strategy is not clear and that they cannot get business owners and executives to participate in the EA activity, thus leaving the whole ship, in a sense, "rudderless". When we look at what is discussed with the business people as "business architecture" we are not too surprised. EA in most organizations (and in TOGAF) has "grown upwards" from IT towards the business process management space. Few organizations are doing real Business Architecture.

This talk is part evangelism for relevant and comprehensive Business Architecture as well as drawing upon our experience of doing this with organizations in telecommunications, health care, banking, assurance, goverment and software industries over many years.

We will cover the scope of business architecture, a meta model for business architecture, how to deal with scenarios and "what ifs", ideas on how to engage the real owners and executives of the business and illustrate the ideas with examples from experience. We hope to provoke some discussion on how these ideas could be incorporated into TOGAF.

Note: An earlier version of this talk was presented at The Open Group EAPC in San Diego, in January. It was well received and provoked considerable useful discussion and subsequent exchange of ideas and information between attendees.

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