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Architecture Practitioners' Conference
Objective of Meeting
At the Washington Members' Meeting The Open Group Architecture Forum hosted a two-day
Architecture Practitioners' Conference, to complement and follow on from the Plenary
Conference on Enterprise Architecture and Boundaryless Information Flow, which occupied
the opening day-and-a-half of the week.
Today’s CEOs know that an effective Enterprise Architecture is key to ensuring
return on investment (ROI) in Information Technology, providing the strategic context for
the evolution of IT within the enterprise in response to the constantly changing business
environment, and enabling the enterprise to strike the right balance between IT efficiency
and business innovation. As such, it can be the key differentiator between business
success or failure.
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 for the effective creation of real business
value. It provided experience-based insight into approaches and methods that have proven
effective in developing Enterprise Architectures around the world.
The practice of Enterprise Architecture 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 organized by Enterprise Architecture
practitioners, for Enterprise Architecture practitioners, and those directly involved in
the management and oversight of Enterprise Architecture. It was a conference about best
practice in Enterprise Architecture today, with a significant number of members and
non-members alike coming together to share insights and perspectives on how to
improve the practice, and how to maximize the value.
This was not an event about TOGAF, specifically (although there were of course a number
of presentations relevant to TOGAF). However, the Conference did underline 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 Enterprise
Architecture, hone their skills, share experiences, and learn from each other.
Summary
The agenda for the Architecture Practitioners' Conference covered 40 individual
sessions, structured into 14 tracks across 3 streams. The event provided a wealth of
current case study and tutorial material, summarized below.
Keynote Address
- The Enterprise Architect: The New Professional
Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group [PDF]
Track #1A: The Business Case for Enterprise Architecture
- Creating and Selling a Compelling Architecture Vision
Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group [PDF]
- (Workshop) Business Scenarios: A Practical Technique for Articulating an Enterprise
Architecture Vision
Terry Blevins and Sally Long, The Open Group
Track #2A: Enterprise Architecture Case Studies: The Commercial and Finance
Sector
- (Case Study) Architecture Challenges in the Semiconductor Equipment Industry
Chris Phoa, Applied Materials [PDF]
- (Case Study) Architecture Challenges in the U.S. Finance Sector
Aileen Morse, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Fannie Mae
- (Case Study) Enterprise Architecture in the Chinese Finance Industry: The Dalian
Commodity Exchange
Ron Fons, Chief Enterprise Architect, ChiSurf Limited, China [PDF]
Track #3A: Enterprise Architecture Core Competencies
- Introducing Enterprise Architecture to the Enterprise
Chris Greenslade, Frietuna Consultants [PDF]
- Architecture Maturity Models
Judith Jones, Architecting-The-Enterprise [PDF]
- Essential Elements of a Usable Enterprise Architecture
Glenn A Cadoret, IBM [PDF]
Track #1B: Enterprise Architecture and Governance
- A Practical Framework for Architecture Governance
Christopher Blake and Alan Simmonds, QA [PDF]
- (Case Study) Applying the COBIT Management Guidelines to Enterprise Architecture
Governance
Stuart MacGregor, Real IRM Solutions, South Africa [PDF]
- (Case Study) Architecture Governance in Hewlett-Packard
Ted Lohman, Hewlett-Packard [PDF]
- Principles-Based Architecture Federation and Integration
Christopher Blake, QA [PDF]
Track #2B: Enterprise Architecture Case Studies: The Government Sector
- (Case Study) Architecture Frameworks in the DoD
Dr. Fatma Dandashi, The MITRE Corporation [PDF]
- (Case Study) Architecting an On-Demand Government Enterprise using the FEA
Andras Szakal, IBM [PDF]
- (Case Study) Introducing Architecture into the Nord-Rhein Westfalia State Government
Torsten Mueller, IBM and Lutz Hagelgans, Innenministerium NordRheinWestfalia, Germany [PDF]
- (Case Study) EA work at the IRS and Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Don Hutcheson, IBM [PDF]
Track #3B: Workshop: Designing a Business Architecture
- (Workshop) Designing a Business Architecture
Judith Jones and Simon Dalziel, Architecting-The-Enterprise
Track #1C: Key Issues in Enterprise Architecture
- Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow with Java Technologies
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems [PDF]
- Architecture and Change Mangement
Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Professional Services [PDF]
- The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Enterprise Architecture
Stephen Swenson, US Naval Undersea Warfare Center [PPT]
Track #2C: Setting up an Enterprise Architecture Practice
- IBM's Internal Architecture Practice
Claudio Cozzi, IBM World Wide IT Architect Profession Leader [PDF]
- Integrating EA into the Full Information Systems Life Cycle
John Keane, MELE Associates [PDF]
- On Selling the Enterprise Architecture Concept to Business Executives
Ajit Kapoor, Lockheed Martin [PDF]
Track #3C: Workshop: Designing a Technology Architecture
- (Workshop) Session cancelled due to unavailability of presenter.
Track #1D: Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
- Integrating TOGAF, Zachman, and DoDAF into a Common Process
Rolf Siegers, Raytheon [PDF]
- Where to from Zachman? Implementing EA using a best-of-breed hybrid process
combining Zachman, TOGAF, and Systems Architect
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions [PDF]
- A Consolidation of Methodologies to Architect, Implement, and Manage Enterprise
Architectures
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems [PDF]
Track #2D: Enterprise Architecture and Technology
- Designing Secure Enterprise Architectures
Jim Whitmore, IBM [PDF]
- Architecting the Identity-Enabled Enterprise
Ed Harrington, Principal Consultant & CEO, EPH Associates [PDF]
Track #1E: Global Perspectives on Enterprise Architecture
- Government-Wide Enterprise Architecture Framework in Korea
SungBum Park, National Computerization Agency, South Korea [PDF]
- Tales from a TOGAF Practitioner in Australia
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions, Australia [PDF]
- Enterprise Architecture in China
Ron Fons, Chief Enterprise Architect, ChiSurf Limited, China [PDF]
Track #2E: Enterprise Architecture Tools
- METIS
Bill Wright, Computas Inc. [PDF]
- (Case Study) Use of Knowledge Modeling to Characterize the NOAA Observing System
Architecture
James N. Martin, The Aerospace Corporation [PDF]
- ARQuest™ Blueprint
Ron Crawford and Frank Marullo, Lockheed Martin [PDF]
- MEGA International
Mark McGregor, MEGA International [PDF]
- (Case Study) Using MEGA for Enterprise Architecture at BAT
Sadie Legard, BAT [PDF]
- New Tool Support for TOGAF 8 with Popkin System Architect
David Harrison, Popkin Software [PDF]
- Adaptive Solutions
Rian Mey, Adaptive Limited [PDF]
Track #1F: TOGAF Tutorial
- TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework): An Open Framework and Method for
Enterprise Architecture
John Spencer, The Open Group [PDF]
Outputs
The presentations at the meeting, and the associated discussions and panel sessions,
provided participants with an unparalleled 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
enterprise architecture
- Network with leading architecture experts, vendors, and peers in the enterprise
architecture field
Next Steps
This inaugural Architecture Practitioners' Conference was a tremendous success, and
confirmed the need for this unique event. The Conference will now be repeated in Europe in
April 2004.
Links
A full report is available on the Architecture Forum Members' web
site.
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