510 words, 1.9 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk
Enterprise Architecture 1 big thing: Guarantee your company is learning Management System.
The big picture: Ensure you provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including: Business Strategy, IT Strategy and Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering and Transformation, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions.
Why it matters: Make headway so that your staff has excellence when facilitating (internal) customer design and awareness sessions that are focused on complex application solution architectures.
What we’re hearing: “Make sure the Architect defines the structure, characteristics and behavior of a single application, or group of applications, and is guided by the strategies, design patterns, and best practices established by the Enterprise Architecture team.“, Software Architect
Between the lines: Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques that are aligned with Company approved methodologies and tool sets to help with the successful completion of short and long-term goals.
The backdrop: Ensure your services include due diligence (IT and operational), merger integration carve-out planning and execution, transition service agreement negotiation and governance, ERP implementations, IT operations and cost reduction, and enterprise architecture.
What to watch: Secure that your staff acts as a technology product delivery leader and change agent, working with corporate system leadership and teams to align with strategic imperatives, enterprise architecture and product roadmaps.
What they’re saying: “Be confident that your operation leads strategic technological planning to support the ITs goals by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies.“, Senior Enterprise Architect (App & Data SME)
On the flip side: Warrant that your staff is accountable for driving information architecture decisions for Commercial digital capabilities in alignment with enterprise information and data architecture principles.
Meanwhile: Develop and maintain architectural roadmap for data products and data services plus ensuring alignment with the business and enterprise architecture strategies and standards.
State of play: Collaborate with the project management office on implementation plans that move toward the target enterprise architecture and align projects with architecture strategies and roadmaps.
The bottom line: Make sure your personnel and creatively looks as at complex problems and systems to drive the correct implementation of the Enterprise technology and architectural standards, compliance and governance.
What’s next: Ensure your organization needs in depth expertise in at least two areas of Architecture competency as SOA, TOGAF, BPM, Data Analytics, standards and governance, or enterprise architecture frameworks.
ICYMI: Work with business and functional analysts, and software and solution architects in ensuring that programs and systems function as intended Supervise, mentor and manage large teams of programmers in one or more projects.
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