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Architecture Practitioners' Conference
Objective of Meeting
At the Brussels Members' Meeting The Open Group Architecture Forum hosted a two-day
Architecture Practitioners' Conference, to complement and follow on from the Plenary
Conference on Boundaryless Information Flow, which occupied the opening day-and-a-half of
the week.
The theme of the Conference was "Making IT Pay: Using EA to Create
Business Value, Control Costs, and Generate Real RoI", and the Conference
focused on the use of Enterprise Architecture (EA) for the effective creation of real
business value. It provided experience-based insight into approaches and methods that have
proven effective in developing EAs around the world.
The practice of EA is still emerging as a discipline. Unlike other EA Conferences which
focus on the strategic value of EA, this highly practical two-day Architecture
Practitioners' Conference was a conference organized by EA practitioners, for EA
practitioners, and those directly involved in the management and oversight of EA. It was a
conference about best practice in EA today, with members and non-members alike
coming together to share insights and perspectives on how to improve the practice,
and how to maximize the value.
The Conference underlined the role of The Open Group Architecture Forum in providing a
truly global forum in which IT Architects from all sectors of the industry -- IT
customers, systems vendors, tools vendors, and major integrators -- can come together to
discuss best practice in EA, hone their skills, share experiences, and learn from each
other.
Summary
The agenda for the Architecture Practitioners' Conference covered 43 individual
sessions and five panel sessions, structured into eight tracks acrostwo streams. The event
provided a wealth of current case study and tutorial material, summarized below.
Note that the links to slide presentations in this summary are
available to Members of The Open Group and Conference attendees only.
Keynote Address
- The Enterprise Architect: The New Professional [PDF]
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Track #1A: The Business Case for Enterprise Architecture
- CASE STUDY: Making the Internal Business Case for EA [PDF]
Phil Brennan, Thames Valley Police, UK
- Business Value and Enterprise Architecture [PDF]
Judith Jones and Simon Dalziel, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
- WORKSHOP: Business Services Architecture [PDF]
Judith Jones and Simon Dalziel, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Track #1B: Enterprise Architecture Core Competencies
- Architecture Challenges within Extended Enterprises [PDF]
Professor Subhash Wadhwa, Indian Institute of Technology
- Introducing Enterprise Architecture to the Enterprise [PDF]
Chris Greenslade, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
- Developing Architecture Competencies for the Telecommunications Industry [PDF]
Ian Clark, ETIS
- Enterprise Application Portfolio Planning - Process and Deliverables [PDF]
Klaus Niemann, ...act! Consulting, Germany
Track #2A: Setting Up and Running an Enterprise Architecture Practice
- TUTORIAL: The Profession and Practice of IT Architecture [PDF]
David Jackson, IBM, US
- Setting up an Enterprise Architecture Practice (The CGI Experience) [PDF]
Robert Weisman, CGI, Canada
- Challenges and Opportunities in Setting up an EA Practice in Lockheed Martin [PDF]
Ajit Kapoor, Lockheed Martin, US
- Developing Architecture Skills [PDF]
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise Limited
Track #2B: Enterprise Architecture Case Studies
- CASE STUDY: Danish Commerce and Companies Agency [PDF]
Kim Bergman, Erhvervs og Selskabsstyrelsen, Denmark
Palle Simonsen, Ementor Danmark A/S
- CASE STUDY: Netherlands DoD [PDF]
Walter Wittkamp, The Vision Web, Netherlands
- CASE STUDY: The Canadian Government and Business Transformation [PDF]
Robert Weisman, CGI, Canada
- Lessons Learned from EA in the Belgian Commercial and Government Sectors [PDF]
Jan Wilmaers, Inno.com, Belgium
- CASE STUDY: Introducing Architecture into the Nord-Rhein Westfalia State Government
[PDF]
Torsten Mueller, IBM Germany
- CASE STUDY: EA Planning at Applied Materials
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions, Australia [PDF]
Wil Huijben, Applied Materials, US [PDF]
Track #3A: Enterprise Architecture and Governance
- A Practical Framework for Architecture Governance [PDF]
Alan Simmonds, QA Consultants Limited, UK
- The Role of Enterprise Architecture in Governance [PDF]
Stuart MacGregor, Real IRM Solutions, South Africa
- IM/IT Governance and Portfolio Management [PDF]
Robert Weisman, CGI, Canada
- Architecture and Outsourcing [PDF]
Christopher Blake, QA Consultants Limited
- CASE STUDY: Applying the COBIT Management Guidelines to Enterprise Architecture
Governance [PDF]
Stuart MacGregor, Real IRM Solutions (South Africa)
- Enterprise Architecture for CIO Decision Making [PDF]
Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Track #3B: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- A Comparative Survey of Enterprise Architecture Frameworks [PDF]
Jaap Schekkerman, IFEAD, Netherlands
- Enterprise Architecture Process, Structure, and Organization - A Framework derived
from Project Experience [PDF]
Klaus Niemann, ...act! Consulting, Germany
- Model Driven Architecture enabling Service-Oriented Architecture [PDF]
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Professional Services
- Tales from a TOGAF Practitioner in Australia [PDF]
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions, Australia
Track #4A: Enterprise Architecture and Technology
- Architecting the Directory-Enabled Enterprise [PDF]
Ed Harrington, EPH Associates LLC
- Creating Business Value with Enterprise Architecture - by using Solution
Architecture [PDF]
Rob Kruijk, HP
- A Taxonomy of Architecture Building Blocks [PDF]
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Professional Services
- IBM's e-Government Reference Model [PDF]
Ian McCall, IBM
- Operational Enterprise Architectures - European Research Contributions [PDF]
Frank Lillehagen, Computas A/S
- Architecture and Change Mangement [PDF]
Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Professional Services
Track #4B: Enterprise Architecture Tools
- Popkin System Architect
David Harrison, Popkin Software
- METIS
Paul Fosland, Computas A/S
- ArchiMate: A Framework and Workbench for EA Tool Interoperability [PDF]
Marc Lankhorst, Telematica Instituut, Enschede
- EA and Business Process Modelling
David Harrison, Popkin Software
- Where to from Zachman? Using tools and other frameworks to implement the Zachman
Framework [PDF]
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions, Australia
- Architecture Development Methodology for Business Applications [PDF]
Shepherd Thongse, Infosys Belgium, on behalf of Santonu Sarkar, Riaz Kapadia, Srinivas
Thonse, and Ananth Chandramouli, Infosys Bangalore, India
- Architecture Description Framework for Enterprise Systems - A Layered Approach [PDF]
Shepherd Thongse, Infosys Belgium, on behalf of Ananth Chandramouli, Santonu Sarkar, Riaz
Kapadia, and Venugopal Subbarao, Infosys Bangalore, India
Outputs
The presentations at the meeting, and the associated discussions and panel sessions,
provided participants with a wealth of experience-based insight into current best practice
in Enterprise Architecture, from leading experts and practitioners.
Participants at this unique event were able to:
- Participate in highly practical workshops teaching best practices in the EA process
- Review case studies from organizations who have put theory into practice, and learn from
them what works and what doesn't
- See demonstrations and presentations on leading tools supporting open methods for EA
- Network with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in the EA field
Next Steps
This First European Architecture Practitioners' Conference was a tremendous success,
and confirmed the need for this unique event on both sides of the Atlantic. The next
Architecture Practitioners' Conference will be held in New Orleans, USA, 20-22 October
2004.
Interested in presenting or participating at New Orleans? Contact John
Spencer, Director of The Open Group Architecture Forum.
Links
See above. A full report is available to Members on the Architecture Forum members' web
site.
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