Event Timetable

Welcome and Introduction to The Open Group

 Enterprise Architecture and Organizational Transformation

 Sonia Gonzalez, Senior consultant, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica; and Chair, AEA Costa Rica chapter

The presentation will state how EA is the practice that could support and leverage the strategic organizational vision so this can be really made operational and become a reality. Only through a synergistic and integrated organizational overview the companies could really manage their strategic capabilities, identify them, analyze them and understand their relationships and dependencies.

The new challenges and tendencies that are rising into the different markets can only become an advantage for those companies that could really adapt to changes rapidly and can generate innovative business solutions, for doing that, EA is a key element. The presentation will also show how EA can relate strategy with the different organizational layers : business planning, business areas services and products, operations, process management and TI. Only showing this complete landscape the organization mission and vision could be made operational taking advantage on the existing assets and capabilities. It will also show how EA can be applied to achieve strategic and operational innovation.The frameworks and best practices referred will be TOGAF, ZACHMAN, ARCHIMATE, BPMN, SOA, COBIT, ITIL AND Innovation frameworks. It will also be supported by some real cases examples presented in a very generic way.

Key takeaways:

-- Enterprise architecture and strategy
-- Enterprise Architecture as the key element for strategic capabilities management
-- EA to enable change, innovation and transformation
-- How EA can be used to integrate different practices and methodologies in a synergistic way

Sonia Gonzalez Paredes is a Costa Rican with 20 years experience. She is a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. She has professional experience as consultant, trainer (TOGAF, ArchiMate and Cobit 5), Project Manager and researcher. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica, and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de Costa Rica. She has TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2.0 Certification, and COBIT 5 Foundations Certification.

Business Capability Modeling and Service Fulfillment

Don Brancato, Enterprise Architect, HP, US

The presentation is focused in Capability modeling related with service, application and business portfolios and presents an overview and Intro to Business Capability Modeling/Samples that can be applied in order to deliver value to the business through the mapping with business services and business processes

Key takeaways:
-- How to develop and model business capabilities
-- How to apply the models to make the business strategy actionable
-- Application management and migration applied to leverage business capabilities

Don Brancato has been with HP for 3 years. ­ Started EA practice for global preSales, supporting client EA maturity. SW Modeling/Engineering 10-yrs, EA 10-yrs. Former Principal EA at Apollo Group/Univ of Phoenix. Past sea captain, USCG & Federal Licenses to Master of Oceangoing Motor Vessels Any Waters, Any Tonnage. Former US Army Marine Warrant Officer (17-yrs). BS Aviation Computer Science with Weather/Flight - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ASEL). Directed Studies in Advanced Aerospace App Design - Washington University.

Building Business and IT Roadmaps with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®

Larry Wallendorff, Corso, US

Business and IT roadmaps provide a time-based view of capabilities, applications, technologies and business processes within an organisation. Using the ArchiMate language from the Open Group, roadmaps can be communicated in a standard and repeatable manner with business and IT stakeholders. By extending the functionality both of ArchiMate and TOGAF 9, we are able to show how the inclusion of milestones, lifecycles, pie chart status, heatmapping, and export to Excel, Powerpoint and other visualisation aids, ensures that stakeholders have a good grasp of their current and future architecture states and alerts them to functional gaps, budget over-runs and redundancy.

Key takeaways:

-- How to ensure enterprise and solution architectures are future-proof
-- Extending ArchiMate and TOGAF to provide pragmatic solutions to strategic planning issues.

Larry Wallendorff is a Carnegie Mellon certified, TOGAF9 certified enterprise architect and speaker in Application/Business Architecture and EA Management Best Practices. Previously EA Practice Area Lead for IBM Rational North America, Larry has over 20 years' experience providing architecture management solutions/methods, industry/custom EA frameworks and assessments for Fortune 500 companies across industry verticals. Based in Colorado, Larry now manages the global pre-sales team at Corso, the premier Enterprise Architecture Business Partner for IBM.

Effective Business Architecture - Connecting Innovation, Strategy & Implementation

Sven van Dijk, BiZZdesign, Canada

Organizations need to continuously adapt to changes in order to maintain business success. This change can only be achieved if approached in a structured and coordinated way. Best practices and standards are available that help to innovate and design the organization. The challenge is to establish and maintain alignment between the various layers: strategy planning, enterprise architecture, and implementation design. Each layer defines the requirements and constraints for the level below. But most methods focus on a single layer, since the required guidance and model support are different on each of the levels. For example, on the strategic level key factors of a strategic proposition need to be captured, whereas on the level of implementation detailed models are required. This presentation will not only explore state-of-the-art methods and standards for effective business architecture practices on the various levels, but it will also show how methods and models can be connected. In this way, the results achieved at one layer kick start the work on the next level. Structured methods that are connected give organizations a powerful way to govern the implementation of strategy, as well as more agility to respond to changing circumstances.

Key takeaways:

-- Overview of standards on different levels of business architecture, more specifically the Business Model Canvas™, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, and BPM.
-- Achieve alignment from strategy to implementation by connecting methods and standards in a tool supported Business Architecture practice.

Sven van Dijk is a consultant and trainer for BiZZdesign North America and is well versed in working with methods and tools for BPM & EA in various project contexts and speaks regularly at conferences and symposiums on EA & BPM around the world. An experienced, hands-on business consultant combining business skills with a strong technical background, and his extensive knowledge on structured methods and tools for enterprise architecture and business process management. His ability and experience working in various consultancy roles (specialist, process manager, project leader) and in various types of projects (IT implementation, Impact-of-Change analysis and Change Management) are of great benefit to our clients.

• mobility
• social networks and social enterprise
• big data
• cloud computing
• devices
• application architectures

EA & TOGAF® Applied to Financial Sector - Bank of Costa Rica Case Study

This presentation is about a real study case for the financial sector in Costa Rica. In the case, the roadmap and approach taken for the EA capability development using TOGAF as a base framework is presented and also how the framework was adapted in order to fulfill the banks needs and particular organizational structure, culture and governance framework and also to purse the alignment and support for Cobit 4.1 implementation. Along the case, the different challenges and situations that had to be faced is shown and also the approach used to start delivering value through a quick win strategy. The lessons learned and future roadmap to be taken is also presented. In the last part of the presentation the new steps to come showing how to integrate ArchiMate and the vertical reference model BIAN is stated.

Key takeaways:

-- Steps to follow in order to adapt a general framework like TOGAF for a specific situation
-- How to use EA to deliver value and support other disciplines such as BPM, SOA and IT Governance (Cobit 4.1)
-- How to deliver value based on a quick win strategy
-- The change management importance in the process
-- How to adapt an use a vertical model like BIAN

Orlando Retana is an Information Systems computer engineer. He has a Business Administration degree and a Project Manager master. He has 40 years experience in the banking industry, 25 in the technical area and 4 in Enterprise Architecture, commercial business area, marketing and electronic banking.

Sonia Gonzalez Paredes is a Costa Rican with 20 years experience. She is a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. She has professional experience as consultant, trainer (TOGAF, ArchiMate and Cobit 5), Project Manager and researcher. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica, and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de Costa Rica. She has TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2.0 Certification, and COBIT 5 Foundations Certification.

Adding Value to the Business through Enterprise Architecture: EA as an Enabler for GRC

Israel Tavares, MEGA International, Mexico

This presentation will explain the relationship between EA and the GRC (governance, risk management, and compliance) program. It will answer how an EA program could help to implement a GRC project in organizations; also, it will explain the involvement of the operational risk in whole the EA. Today's GRC challenges can be understood and addressed by using Enterprise Architecture methods. EA and GRC together can help an organization achieve its goals of continuous improvement of operations, risk management and the creation of value, transparency and sustainability. EA and GRC together make sure that a company is not simply adding a technology solution without fixing or updating its risk management, compliance and governance practices.

Key takeaways:
-- The relationship between EA and GRC program.
-- How to sell EA program in other areas of the company

Israel Tavares has 10+ year experience selling solutions and services related to information technology, for public and private customers from diverse industry sectors, in Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Currently Israel reports to the V. P. Operations, He is responsibles for sales revenue. Experience with presenting to senior management about Governance, Risk, Compliance, Business Process Analisys and Enterprise Architecture subjects.
 

Enterprise Architecture and Business Transformation - Reactive Panel

Transforming an organization is about fundamental change in the way a business Operates, moving to an enterprise-centric position that includes a more complete view of the business, of which IT is a part.. The Open Group supports business transformation goals by working with suppliers and end-users to establish open, vendor-neutral IT standards that can be used in a cross-section of industries. This panel will discuss latest ideas in how organizations can leverage the work of The Open Group to achieve the benefits of business transformation.

Issues to analyze and discuss:
• Only through a synergistic and integrated organizational overview can companies really manage their strategic capabilities, identify them, analyze them and understand their relationships and dependencies. How can EA be applied to achieve this?
• Enterprises need to innovate. Only through innovation can organizations really differentiate themselves in the competitive markets that have to be faced today. How can we apply EA to leverage innovation?
• How do we understand the business capability concept? How can these models be applied to support strategy execution and also how can this concept really be understood and become the organization's reality?
• Practical approaches for business capabilities and business transformation: Achieve alignment from strategy to implementation by connecting methods and standards such as more specifically the Business Model Canvas™, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®, and BPM.
• How practices, standards and best practices like SOA, Big Data and Cloud platforms could also leverage enterprise transformation.
• Real cases lessons learned. How can theory and best practice really fit and be applied considering business constraints and organizational culture? Real challenges?
 

Welcome Message and Overview of AEA Costa Rica Chapter

Sonia González – Chair, Costa Rica Chapter, AEA

This will be a short presentation about the vision, mision and projections for the AEA Costa Rica chapter. The main objectives and principles for the association will be stated and also a briefing about the project plan and activities regarding how the AEA will support the professional development national and international

Key takeaways:

-- EA professional development overview
-- EA projections for the future for Latin America and globally
-- Promote knowledge interchange and growing.

Sonia Gonzalez Paredes is a Costa Rican with 20 years experience. She is a consultant in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Governance of IT and IT Service Management, Information Systems design and analysis, Business Process Management, Service Oriented Architecture and Systematic Innovation. She has professional experience as consultant, trainer (TOGAF, ArchiMate and Cobit 5), Project Manager and researcher. Sonia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Costa Rica, and a Computer Engineering degree from Universidad de Costa Rica. She has TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 2.0 Certification, and COBIT 5 Foundations Certification.

The Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) is the definitive professional organization for Enterprise Architects. Our goals are to increase job opportunities for all members and increase their market value by advancing professional excellence, and to raise the status of the profession as a whole.  Membership signals true professional excellence based on well-established. neutral and internationally recognozed benchmarks.

Strategic Visioning with TOGAF®

Leonardo Ramírez, Chair, AEA Colombia

In this presentation you will able to learn some TOGAF tools to visualize and implement strategic change in your organization. Lets explore how in AEA Colombia we are supporting a creative approach to the perennial challenges of engaging people and organizations around a vision and the value of Enterprise Architecture.

Key takeaways:

-- Visual TOGAF
-- TOGAF strategic visioning
-- AEA tools and workshops

Leonardo Ramírez is a trusted Enterprise Architect with 20 years of successful experience applying TOGAF, Industry Reference Models like ARTS, ETOM, BIAN, ACORD, Best Practices in ITIL, SOA, BPM, COBIT, ISO38500 and Ontology Coaching to develop effective Strategy - Execution Aligment Projects. Skills to lead end-to-end Business and IT roadmaps with effective leadership, define customer business directions, create solutions, integrate market trends and industry point of view on customer environment, going from assesments and business cases to final executive presentations to articulate IT portfol into business strategy. Experience in defining Business and IT strategies and roadmaps, Application Portfolio Analysis, SOA strategies and Roadmaps, Process mapping using Industry Reference Models, Enterprise Architecture and cost-benefit cases for business-it converging conversations. International Speaker traveling from America to Asia sharing a vision of changing conversation with business with lectures focusing on business value.

Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA Together in Action

Luis Caicedo, Oscar Rojas; and Claudia Selva Boehmer, GBM, Colombia

Implementing EA  for Homologation, Transformation and Standardization in a Complex Organizational Environment

Juliana Ceballos, Manager, Avianca Taca, Colombia

Implementing a framework in a company is an arduous task that requires dedication, perseverance and commitment. Beside this, you have to get the budget and the support to be able to start with the practice, and you have to reflect benefits in corporate finance the fastest as possible. An EA process without clear objectives and without tangible results is the reason why the application of these practices may fail. Enterprise Architecture, implemented with specific objectives, is a practice that delivers fast and valuable results to the company. The success lies in having a clear goal, a detalied working plan based on early victories and an good analysis of the corporate context.

In Avianca holdings, the synergy of Avianca and Taca airlines was identified as the rigth moment for the implementation of the EA framework. Driven by the technology area, the practice was essential for the implementation of all the IT projects and synergys. EA and the architecture repository where the main assets to achieve rapid technological synergies, the simplification and standardization with a defined strategic north, which ultimately resulted in the rapid uptake of benefits for the synergy, technological operational simplification and cost reduction. Delivering early victories was the key for the process to be recognized within the organization, an adapted TOGAF Framework became official and today is an essential tool for IT strategic planning and Avianca is now initiating the process of taking the EA to the C-Level to reach other organizations inside avianca, and to be part of the Avianca's strategic process.

Key takeaways:

-- Implement an enterprise architecture framework based on early victories and opportunities provided by the corporate context
-- Selection of key projects in place to approve a proposed enterprise architecture in a company designing metrics to quickly demonstrate the benefit of the practice
-- Using enterprise architecture process for technology strategic planning, defining architectures and architectures for the transition and the tracing plan for the GAP analysis.

Juliana Ceballos is Enterprise Architecture Manager for Avianca Holdings. She is a systems engineer with specialization of enterprise architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Javieriana in Bogota . She has more than eight years of professional experience in technology areas, from the development of software systems to technical architecture and enterprise architecture. She has four years of experience in enterprise architecture, in charge of all the area inside IT leading the enterprise architecture process and the technical architecture designs.
 

Evolution of EA Practices at Intel -- Case Study

Gloria Killen, Strategic EA Program Manager, Intel

Gloria Killen is a Senior Technical Program Manager and has been at Intel Corporation for 12+ years. Having held a number of technical positions within IT, she is currently in IT’s Strategy, Architecture and Innovation group where she runs the End-to-End Developer Experience Program.

Membership is the Association for Enterprise Architects (AEA) demonstrates your commitment to both your own professional development and the status of the Enterprise Architecture community as a whole.  It distinguishes you from other EA practitioners and testifies to your skills and experience.

Birgit will talk about how to get involved with a local chapter and with the online community which provides instant access to AEA's global dynamic communities of your peers.

Driving Change - EA Practice in Latin America

How can EA be applied in an effective, practical approach to deliver real value to organizations through the alignment of strategy and operation, and how can EA professional development leverage and support the practice in Latin America region?

• One of the fundamental EA principles is the alignment with standards and best practices in a way that can really be practical and applicable to organizations' reality. How can we face this challenge and define a practical approach without losing the vision?

• Planning and execution… architecture and implementation… how can the gap be closed in a synergistic way avoiding silos?

• Real cases input and opinions.