Developing a capabilityAnthony Draffin

ANU Enterprise Architecture

Things work better when they work together with clarity with eleganceon purpose

– Tom Graves”“

Enterprise Architecture is about providing decision support

Provide practical answers to business problems

Want to avoid ivory tower architecture

We have the bricks, but we haven’t assembled all of them yet.

business intelligence platform

wireless

consolidated service desk

virtualisation teaching software

architectural

review

duplicationdecommissioning

integration standardisationfederation

tactical approach

strategic approach

future architectural approach

tactical approach

establish Technical Review

Committee

document baseline

architecture

document future

architecturedocument roadmap

develop EA vision

Business

Case

• Review the business case for the proposed technical solution

Design Completion

• Review the completed detail design for consistency with IT principles and technology standards

Design Chang

e Reqest

• Assess design change request to ensure that it is consistent with IT principles and technology standards

Implementa

tion

• Ensure that the design produced is consistent with proposed architecture

enterprise architect (chair)

SIG rep F&S rep College rep ITS SMEs

Architectural work is fractal-like in practice.

Individual segments and capabilities contribute to the whole

Technology Views

Application Views

Data Views

Business Views

Strategic Views

Impl

emen

tatio

n

architectural segment

universals such as objectives and vision

are ubiquitous

cross-segment

views

segments form capabilities (but

they may stand on their own)

EARepository

Configuration Management System (CMS)

Portal

Self Service PortalManagement Portal

Query and Analysis Monitoring Reporting

Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Configuration Item Service Catalogue

HardwareCatalogue

Software Catalogue

Other ServiceCatalogue

Change Records

Request for Change(RFC)

Supplier ContractDatabase

Forward Scheduleof Change

Change AdvisoryBoard (CAB)

Records

Service RequestRecords

Incident Record

Problem Record

Definitive MediaLibrary

Self Service Portal

Service Catalogue

Software Catalogue

Email Phone

Hardware Catalogue Other ServiceCatalogue

Packaged Software Non-PackagedSoftware

Common SoftwaqreCatalogue

College SpecificSoftware Catalogue

Discipline SpecificSoftware

Teaching Software

Business Channels

Application Component (in focus)

Application Component (not in focus)

Software

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Serv ice Request Record

Customer

Researcher Staff

Teaching & Learning Staff

Administration Staff

Student

Definitiv e SparesConfiguration Management

Database

Configuration Item

SnapshotConfiguration Baseline

Definitiv e Media Library

Standard Operating

Env ironment (SOE)

Linux SOE OS X SOE Windows SOE

Serv ice Catalogue

Supplier

Serv ice Portfolio

Request Dev ice

fixed asset register

Supplier and Contract

Database (SCD)

Software Package

containedin

holdsauthorised

sourcedfrom

registered in

recordsdeployed

deployedinresponse for

producedfrom

defines

defines

is a

availablefrom

deployed inresponse

for

records

listed in

recorded as

records

deployedwithreceived from makes

records

Architecture Documents

?decision support

Manage the work by time boxing it and ‘projectising’ it.

What enterprise

architecture is

Challenges Current state Tactical plan Managing

the work