Extending EA to the Enterprise
Host: Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group

2-00 - 2.45 Tutorial: Extending Architecture to the Enterprise Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group Len Fehskens is responsible for all activities relating to enterprise architecture architecture at The Open Group, including AOGEA, TOGAF and the Architecture Forum. Prior to joining The Open Group, Len led the Worldwide Architecture Profession Office for HP Services at Hewlett-Packard. He majored in Computer Science at MIT, and has almost 40 years of experience in the IT business as both an individual contributor and a manager, within both product engineering and services business units. Len has worked for Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General Corporation, Prime Computer, Compaq and Hewlett Packard. He is the lead inventor on six software patents on the object oriented management of distributed systems and was recently TOGAF 8 certified.

2.45 - 3.30 Architecture on Purpose "We've just gone through yet another PR disaster - how do we prevent those bad headlines from hitting us again?" Whilst IT-architects still focus most on optimisation issues such as bandwidth, software-services, applications and business/IT-alignment, business executives often have much worse worries to keep them awake at night. And that's where they most want our help. To tackle these concerns, we need to extend the scope of EA, not just from IT to business-architecture, but to the whole 'extended enterprise' that gives the business its business-purpose. Starting our architecture at that level with TOGAF and other EA tools gives us new ways to enhance overall enterprise effectiveness - and help our executives get home to a good night's rest! Tom Graves, Principal Architect, Tetradian, UK Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for more than three decades, in business transformation and enterprise architecture, specialising in whole-of-enterprise architectures. His clients in Europe, Australia, USA and Latin America cover a broad range of industries including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government.

3.30 - 4.00 Break

4.00 - 4.45 Architecture of the Enterprise - A Holistic View The term "Enterprise Architecture" literally means "architecture of an enterprise" for to 95% of people, but is frequently used by IT architects to mean "architecture of IT in context with the whole enterprise". This presentation will describe the holistic meaning of "Enterprise Architecture" and the roles of architects and management in facilitating alignment across the whole enterprise. Walter Stahlecker, Fellow, The Open Group, Germany Walter Stahlecker is a Fellow of The Open Group. His current focus is on modelling, describing and promoting the concept of Enterprise Architecture in the sense of "Architecture of the entire Enterprise". He has been an active member of The Open Group's working groups and Governing Board (and the preceding X/Open) since 20 years. He initiated the Business Architecture Working Group, the ITAC Program and is a founding member of the Architecture Forum. In 2006 Walter retired from HP as Director of Industry Standards after 35 years, during which he served as manager (commercial UNIX program) and initiator (System Management part of OpenView, Agilent's digital IC test systems).

4.45 - 5.30 Discussion: Extending Architecture to the Enterprise Moderators: Len Fehskens and Walter Stahlecker

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