Establishing an Enterprise Architecture Discipline in Your Organization

Carla Robelli, Vice President PMO, Jeff Poiner, Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, and Karen Xie, PhD, Director, Enterprise Architecture and Program Management, Trinity Health. Trinity Health and the Scottsdale Institute want to determine interest in a potential collaboration on Enterprise Architecture.  If your organization is interested in exploring this issue with peers, please register to attend when we discuss the following: (1) Has your organization established an Enterprise Architecture (EA) group? When? What were the key drivers? Resources? Describe the EA organization structure, e.g., centralized vs. within business units, etc. (2) Describe your EA Framework; is it an existing framework such as Gartner’s, or did you develop your own? Why? How well does it work? (3) Share your current initiatives. What measurements do you have in place to track EA activities and determine success? Describe some completed deliverables, best practices and/or lesson learned. (4) What is your EA governance structure? (5) How do you handle communication of your EA activities and the development of common language throughout your organization? (6) Describe your current EA challenges and any solutions: organization culture, leadership support, governance, framework, communications, resources, education, talent and skill-set, management of EA activities and deliverables. (7) What external resources are helpful?