There are several very similar reports on the recent GAO report on the Department of Homeland Security's Enterprise Architecture Efforts To Date (Full Report, PDF, 15.3 MB), essentially saying that there are holes in version 1 of the DHS EA, with DHS acknowledging as much but stating that this was time-constrained first attempt (DHS IT budget due 4 months after agencies creation) which layed the groundwork for the next iteration due Sept, 2004. Having a little bit of ground-up EA work under my belt now, I can imagine how hard it would be to produce almost anything without major holes in 4 months.
One major thought this brings to me is the importance of Enterprise Architecture for organizations expecting to grow through merger and acquisition. You must be able to quickly compare the Business, Information, and Technology reference models of both entities to determine the fit and gaps to make good decisions as to m&a viability. EA Programs should provide these models.
Back to the story, the best of the articles on this recent report was Dan Verton's Computerworld one that added in the context of a July, 2004 report from the DHS inspector general stating the EA inhibited position of DHS's CIO, Steven Cooper, seems to be starting from,
"Cooper "is not a member of the senior management team with authority to strategically manage department-wide technology assets and programs," the inspector general's report said. It added that there is no formal reporting relationship between Cooper and the CIOs of major DHS components."My limited experience to date is that unless the CIO (or whoever is running the EA Program, and MetaGroup says this is still the CIO in most orgs) and their EA team is not deeply embedded in the senior strategy setting group in the company, then holistic EA Programs, which include the Business Process and Information Flow /Security knowledge DHS EA V1 got dinged on in the GAO report, are truly going to be disadvantaged and not aligned with the vision of enterprise. Posted by outlawv at September 1, 2004 11:23 AM | TrackBack
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