Guy is a founder and major shareholder in Doriq Associates, providing orchestration tools, training and consultancy for EA practices. 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

Knowledge-Driven EA - The Essentials

Within an Enterprise Architecture function, several complex bodies of knowledge have to be brought together and managed cohesively. The tools, processes, frameworks and techniques must make common assumptions about this knowledge, which are reflected in their structure and use. Whilst important and complementary, the knowledgebases underpinning these components frequently conflict at a detailed level. This tends to cause unnecessary work, at best, and totally undermines EA as a discipline, at worst.

Of course, this 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 can be achieved through a common metamodel backbone, and reviews the metadata structures for each domain in detail.

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