EA Guiding Principles

Product Description

Guiding principles are:

  • those core values that should be incorporated into every major IT initiative that Client undertakes.
  • complementary to the business strategies and are used to set and guide decision making, not to run the day-to-day IT business.
  • general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended, that inform and support the way in which Client sets about fulfilling its mission.

Guiding principles will be developed for Enterprise Architecture as a discipline, as well as for the five domain architectures - business, information, data, application and technology.

Product Approach

Three workshops will be conducted to formulate the guiding principles:

  • EA Guiding Principles workshop
  • Business (Business and Information domains) Guiding Principles workshop
  • Solution (Data, Application and Technology domains) Guiding Principles workshop

The Real IRM consultants will prepare a collection of guiding principles from TOGAF and their own knowledgebase. For each principle there will be an opposing principle. The workshop participants will then vote on the principles and based on the results of the vote a decision will be made on the adoption of principles. Implications would then be identified for the selected principles.

This approach has been adopted successfully in the past at other clients and tend to accelerate the decision process substantially.

Latest News

Enterprise Architecture Consultant and Trainer, Michelle Nieuwoudt, will be presenting at ITWeb’s  BPM Summit which is scheduled for 14-15 September 2010 at Vodaworld in Midrand. The conference theme for this year is "Preparing for Success in BPM".

Real IRM’s new five-day EA Bootcamp course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to individuals entering an architecture-related role and/or needing a basic understanding of enterprise architecture(EA) concepts. It covers key industry frameworks and standards like TOGAF, Zachman and ArchiMate. The course is aimed at equipping delegates with sufficient foundational knowledge so that they can participate in, and contribute to EA initiatives.

The first course is scheduled for Johannesburg from 4-8 October 2010.

Stuart Macgregor, CEO of Real IRM, participated in a roundtable podcast discussion on global trends in enterprise architecture (EA) at The Open Group’s Boston EA Practitioners’ Conference in July 2010. Other panellists included Allen Brown and Chris Forde from The Open Group; Eric Boulay from Arismore in France, and Mats Gejnevall from Capgemini in Sweden. Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions and ZDNet blogger moderated the discussion.

Real IRM presented our first ArchiMate course from 12-13 July to a full class. The delegates were excited to learn the new language and their feedback rated the course highly with particular emphasis on their enjoyment of the practical exercises and case study.

Real IRM has scheduled further ArchiMate 1.0 Foundation courses in August and October. For more information, go to http://realirm.com/promotions/archimate-foundation-training
 

The speaker for the July 2010 EA Forum is Jan Mentz, Senior Lecturer at UNISA. He is currently completing his PhD on the definition of enterprise architecture and has some interesting insights to present on the topic. He will discuss some of the problems with defining EA, highlight the issues that stem from EA’s foundation in information systems and IT, and consider the usefulness of ISO/IEC 42010:2007 as a basis for defining EA.

The EA Forum seminars are scheduled for 27, 28 and 30 July in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Johan Schoeman, Enterprise Architecture (EA) Consultant at Real IRM, will be presenting at the Software AG Process Forum event on 12 August 2010 in Johannesburg. His presentation, “Stakeholder-driven Enterprise Architecture” will focus on the importance of following a stakeholder-driven EA approach. 

Real IRM will be presenting COBIT Foundation and Implementation courses from 7 to 10 July 2010, in Johannesburg. The trainer, Mike Shortt, is one of only three qualified and accredited ISACA COBIT trainers in South Africa.

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