563 words, 2.1 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Enterprise Architecture 1 big thing: Define vision, strategy, and principles.

The big picture: Support the enterprise architecture team by providing input into the long term architectural vision for systems and platforms that have an impact on the capability area.

Why it matters: Understand business and technical requirements and design enterprise scale cloud solutions, subsystems, and interfaces that meet such requirements and conform to functional and technical roadmaps.

Yes, but: Interface so that your workforce is involved in evaluation, analysis and planning of large scale strategic IT programs/projects, as ERP, e Commerce, CRM, Content Management Systems and Marketing Technologies.

Under the hood: Ensure that the value of existing/old technology is maximized and that the most appropriate decisions are taken on replacement of old considering the business improvements delivered, overall cost, scale of business change and elapsed time in delivery.

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On the flip side: Work with the business leaders in each Specialty Lines area to understand the business roadmaps and how technology can help them meet the goals.

Between the lines: Ensure you provide primary contract support in multiple areas including Cyber Security, Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, and Program and Financial Management.

What we’re hearing: “Make sure your staff develops and drives the processes and methods for keeping that information up to date, communicating changes and leveraging the information to better inform projects and project portfolio planning.“, Enterprise Cloud Security Architect

What they’re saying: “Report changes, trends, and implications regarding design and integration of evolving systems and instrumentation and prepare briefings and reports on analysis methodology and results.“, Principal Enterprise Security Architect

Meanwhile: Be confident that your strategy works with key organizational stakeholders, enterprise and domain architects, to define a strategic plan for leveraging integrated business architecture in the context of the organizations overall enterprise architecture.

Go deeper: Make sure your workforce designs and develops IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards; performs technical planning, architecture development and modification of specifications; develops specifications for new products/services, applications and service offerings; assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards in order to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.

Be smart: Interface so that your company is keeping up to date on latest technologies, standards, and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment.

The bottom line: Verify that your workforce ensures the consistency and maintainability of software solutions by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing the technical solutions.

What’s next: Invest in creation of governance practices, standards, and strategies, including Cloud Security Audits, Mobile Strategies, Vendor Assessments, Technology Readiness, Roadmaps, Business Capability Maps, and Solution Architectural Diagrams.

ICYMI: Drive collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture Services team to integrate technical direction and considerations into forward looking Release Plans for legacy system modernization.

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531 words, 2.0 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Enterprise Architecture 1 big thing: Make sure your staff is involved in network infrastructure, security, data or application development.

The big picture: Ensure you can suggest the benefits of your complementary skills like technical marketing, public speaking, being multilingual, production-grade code development, enterprise architecture, PaaS/SaaS delivery, etc.

Why it matters: Make headway so that your team has potential to consistently exercise sound judgment, manage multiple projects, often with conflicting priorities, and high stress situations.

Between the lines: Secure that your organization provides strategic direction and oversight for the design, development, operation and support of IT systems and programs that fulfill the needs of the business, including enterprise architecture management, application management, security and risk management, and infrastructure and operations support management.

How it works: Verify that your design partners with internal business team to develop process and functional specifications for deploying new functions or changes in the applications and systems landscape.

What to watch: Operationalize design of a solutions architecture for identified medium complexity projects or domain research efforts, or projects based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities and business requirements; obtain peer reviews for feedback and consensus.

On the flip side: Certify your operation designs aspects of the architecture of a data architecture application, including components as user interface, middleware and infrastructure with low to medium complexity.

The backdrop: Lead Program Managers and Lead Engineers in coordinating and conducting governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture.

What they’re saying: “Have extensive systems administration involvement with Active Directory, Distributed File System (DFS), Domain Name System (DNS), geographically dispersed synchronization of services and cloud integration.“, Principal Enterprise Security Architect

Under the hood: Participate in the evaluation and selection of hardware and software product standards, the design of standard configurations, the identification of patterns, and the overall design of the services portfolio.

Top Enterprise Architecture Must Haves

Enterprise Architecture Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

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Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

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Yes, but: Liaise with the Chief Technology Officer, Enterprise Architecture and Emerging Technology areas to provide oversight and apply concepts consistently across products in areas such as SOA Governance, Data Governance, Observability, Reuse, etc.

The bottom line: Make sure the recently launched Digital for Growth and Value strategy has the primary objective to accelerate digital transformation at the front face of the Business thanks to agile solutions built on top of enterprise core platforms.

What’s next: Secure that your company is coordinating and conducting governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the enterprise architecture; and/or ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to all components of the enterprise architecture.

ICYMI: Certify your staff managers should have established involvement in inspiring change, and have involvement leading the development of innovative ideas from concept to fruition.

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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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474 words, 1.8 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Enterprise Architecture 1 big thing: Formulate Strategy and Guide Execution of IT Initiatives.

The big picture: Verify that your operation is contributing to the elaboration of the Cram release strategy for aspects related to the implementation of future releases.

Why it matters: Develop and maintains contact with C level (internal) clients, organizes and leads proposal pursuit teams, participating and leading all aspects of the proposal development process.

Meanwhile: Assure your operation is managing 3rd party vendors and partners for the development and delivery of data integration, advanced analytics and reporting needs.

Under the hood: Develop experience providing guidance and training to employees in required recordkeeping and version control practices, including the development of training materials, with priority.

Top Enterprise Architecture Must Haves

Enterprise Architecture Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

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Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

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Between the lines: Make sure the Head of Architecture and Enterprise Services leads, prioritizes and develops the overall enterprise architecture approach for Kite and sets architectural direction.

The backdrop: Make headway so that your staff knows and uses all key (internal) customer resolution tools across all service groups to facilitate rapid resolution of (internal) customer concerns.

What they’re saying: “Warrant that your design tracks scope and change throughout the remainder of the initiative utilizing formal requirements management principles, including change control and requirements traceability.“, Software Architect

Go deeper: Be confident that your team partners with Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), Enterprise Architecture, Product Engineering, and Data and Analytics to establish robust program strategy and planning across the CTO organization.

Yes, but: Develop experience partnering with the Enterprise Architecture team in developing an integrated view of the enterprise systems using cohesive business architecture and software architecture frameworks.

Be smart: Ensure your organization needs in depth knowledge and involvement with the Software Development Lifecycle and agile ways of working, principles, and methodologies (SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, Design Thinking).

The bottom line: Create the high-level design of integration solutions and guide implementation teams on the choice of components and patterns to use in the detailed design and implementation using Azure Integration Services.

What’s next: Measure work closely with enterprise architects to identify and mitigate risks, perform security reviews, design top tier security practices, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security offerings.

ICYMI: Manage and develop the enterprise architecture for a variety of projects, working closely with the business, operations, application development, and security teams to deliver a cohesive and adaptable solution architecture.

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611 words, 2.3 minutes read. By Gerard Blokdyk

Enterprise Architecture 1 big thing: Set enterprise architecture policies and standards to allow uniform, practical, and efficient product development.

The big picture: Interface so that your personnel is leading the development of a single holistic enterprise architecture model for the organization from all architecture perspectives (Business Services, Business Processes, Information, Applications and Technology).

Why it matters: Develop experience developing as is and to be architecture designs and transition plans between the current state and target architecture under DoDAF framework.

Under the hood: Make sure the Lead Cloud Architect work projects involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an your organization needs in depth evaluation of variable factors.

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Enterprise Architecture Executives tell us every quarter about their must haves.

Here are their most urgent ones:

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Top thinkers are using The Art of Service Critical Capabilities Analysis, the guide that’s helping leaders stay ahead of what’s next.

This guide will help you plan your roadmap. The Critical Capabilities and Priorities Guide enables leaders to shortlist hundreds of appropriate results, already prioritized.

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The backdrop: Safeguard that your company monitors and reports on the progress of systems development projects, ensuring they are aligned with business processes and standards.

Between the lines: Collaborate with Project Managers, IT managers, domain architects, and others to provide estimates, develop overall implementation solution plans, and work to ensure the solution gets implemented.

How it works: Make sure your design is responsible for identifying (internal) customer needs, prioritizing capabilities, features, and functionality, translating the needs to technical solutions and functional/technical requirements and guiding the work through the Program.

Go deeper: Ensure you take on the most challenging problems your (internal) customers face and provide innovative solutions that can involve data strategy, use cases and analytical modeling, data governance, AI/ML platforms, and enterprise architecture strategy.

Yes, but: Be confident that your operation supports business and product delivery partners in successful build, test, and release of solutions while ensuring adherence to the Enterprise Architecture direction and strategies.

On the flip side: Establish that your staff defines data architecture standards, policies, and procedures for the organization; structure, attributes, and nomenclature of data elements; and applies accepted data architecture standards to technology projects.

What to watch: Verify that your strategy analyzes enterprise capabilities and IT opportunities in enterprise business processes; provides resolutions for enterprise architecture improvements by utilizing new technological applications.

Be smart: Confirm that your strategy is responsible for synchronization of architecture decisions supporting roadmaps and investment in improved or new digital capabilities, helping determine what digital capabilities the enterprise must develop to satisfy its digital priorities to stand apart from competition, optimize partnerships, and improve operations.

What they’re saying: “Build agile delivery, development, and quality teams, develop employee talent and create a culture the empowers teams to achieve business outcomes in an agile delivery model.“, Microsoft Solutions Architect

Meanwhile: Make sure the Information Technology (IT) Enterprise Architect focuses across the portfolio of projects and enterprise operations engaged with architecture, while supporting individual system or solution architects in that portfolio.

The bottom line: Develop experience creating and defining network requirements for new products, including technical documentation for all relevant processes and technologies, as well as implementation plans and procedures for implementing changes.

What’s next: Make sure your staff provides organization wide technical support and data base development for systems and applications supported by the Enterprise Architecture Team which require custom development expertise.

ICYMI: Guide IT/Business teams in selection, design and implementation of technology solutions, providing reference architecture, and highlighting dependencies while ensuring alignment to standards.

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