Attending the MetaGroup Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies Workshop for the next couple of days here in beautiful San Diego! I'm the hometown boy, along with one of the instructors from MetaGroup, Robert Handler. It's a group of about 20 taking the workshop.
We'll see how to go about blogging this so it might be of interest to other IT and business folks.
Enterprise Architecture is a planning discipline.
Architects need to have a compeling story as to why EA is needed and what it involves. How to sell it to Executive Management. Economics squeezing IT to must-do only. Utilizing IT as competitive weapon. Regulation, SOX. Dynamic M&A. Need for enterprise agility (enabled by architecture).
Challenge: Business and IT think different things for 'model': Business - spreadsheets, IT - flowcharts / swim lanes.
Challenge: Business has cheap, usable software, so why can't IT deliver cheap usable solutions.
Sell: Direct linkage between business and IT PEOPLE reduces business problem recognition time for the entire enterprise.
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