Jason Uppal is a member of The Open Group’s Architecture Forum, TOGAF™ Certification Standing Committee, TOGAF Development Team and IT Architect Certification Board Members, as well as Chief Architect at QRS.

Jason Uppal, P.Eng. was the first Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group, by direct review, in October 2005.  At that point, Jason had been chief architect of QR Systems Inc ( www.quickresponse.ca) for six years and had been providing senior Enterprise Architecture services.  He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.

Jason’s commitment to Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) has led him to focus on training (TOGAF), education (UOIT) and mentoring services to his clients as well as being the responsible individual for both Architecture and Portfolio & Project Management for a number of major projects.

Jason has found that education is only beneficial to those companies who can industrialize the EALC process – staff must be able to implement what they have learned.  To that end, he lead a team of java software developers to develop an end to end industrialization product which encapsulates Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio and Project Management, Project Management and  IT Services Management processes.  Implementing this software product, ITO, (www.itoProcesses.com.) permits companies to take full advantage of TOGAF and any other custom processes which might already be in place within their organization.

Presentations

1. Introduction to TOGAF™ (The Open Group Architecture Framework)

2. Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle – What Is the Glue that Keeps the Practises Together?

Motivation: There is very active debate in many organizations and industry circles on what Enterprise Architecture is and how to address the concerns of various stakeholders within its life cycle. The motivation for this presentation and this stream is how to leverage the TOGAF 9 to frame the EALC debate and offer pragmatic solutions to the enterprise.

Specifically this presentation will address how Enterprise Architecture requirements ensure active engagement of all stakeholders, starting  from those who own the problem, define the problem, implement the right solutions, support those resulting products and exploit the developed capabilities.   

Agenda

• What is Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle and why is it significant?
• How does TOGAF 9 help us deliver on the promise of EALC?
• How do Architecture Requirements act as a glue to ensure total quality and active engagement of all stakeholders?
• Discussion on common framework on how to capture architecture requirement and how are they used by each TOGAF phase to develop – so called Requirements.
• What is the testable criterion for Architecture  Requirements and all  other requirements such as – Business, Functional, non Functional , Organization Change, Implementation etc.

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