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Meeting Report:
Architecture Practitioners' Conference
Objective of Meeting
At the Washington Members' Meeting The Open Group Architecture Forum hosted a 2-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 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 2-day
Architecture Practitioners Conference was a conference 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 & 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 [PPT]
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 Architceture - 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 - 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
- (Case Study) Using MEGA for Enterprise Architecture at BAT - Sadie Legard, BAT
- 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 Second Architecture Practitioners'
Conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 20-22 April 2004.
Links
Full report on Architecture
Forum members' web site.
NOTE: All presentation material for this Conference will be held in the same directory.
So, unless the link is to something outside The Open Group web space, all links should be
relative.
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