Uncovering Enterprise Architecture Benefit Realization – Part 3. Enterprise architecture (EA) only creates value when it is actively used—in planning, decision-making, development, and governance. But there’s a simple truth behind that idea: EA doesn’t create impact through ideas or conversations alone. You also need real, usable architectural content.
Good guidelines to obtain useful EA content. Some suggestions to topics raised:
Solution to 1: Publish automatically from the tool in different formats and with different content depending on readers needs to locations that can easily accessed (e.g. URL by any browser).
Solution to 2: Show results in different level of details and content (the same as in solution #1, e.g. details to architects, basics for public web etc.)
Solution to 3: Use language with proper metamodel. For example, if language provides 8 connection types to connect two elements the likelihood that they are applied in-consistently is high – even if the same person created them all. Or if language allows creating duplicates, unnamed, inheriting from itself etc. (Unfortunately all above inconsistences can be made easily with the mentioned ArchiMate).
Solution to 4: as above #1 and #2. Different level of detail and views – kept consistent automatically as much as possible (so not duplicates etc as in #3).
Good guidelines to obtain useful EA content. Some suggestions to topics raised:
Solution to 1: Publish automatically from the tool in different formats and with different content depending on readers needs to locations that can easily accessed (e.g. URL by any browser).
Solution to 2: Show results in different level of details and content (the same as in solution #1, e.g. details to architects, basics for public web etc.)
Solution to 3: Use language with proper metamodel. For example, if language provides 8 connection types to connect two elements the likelihood that they are applied in-consistently is high – even if the same person created them all. Or if language allows creating duplicates, unnamed, inheriting from itself etc. (Unfortunately all above inconsistences can be made easily with the mentioned ArchiMate).
Solution to 4: as above #1 and #2. Different level of detail and views – kept consistent automatically as much as possible (so not duplicates etc as in #3).