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Joshua Lambert

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The future ofEnterprise Architecture: Borderless Domain Architecture?

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About the Speaker


Joshua LambertSenior Manager Asia, Pacific & JapanVMware Advisory Services

Email: [email protected]: www.linkedin.com/in/joshlambert-au



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Copyright Joshua Lambert 2016




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Learning Was Once Confined to the Lecture Room




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Libraries, Labs, Cafes, and Lounges

Learning Now Happens Everywhere


Classroom Lectures

Online / at Home

Hospitals, Tailored Learning

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What Are the Key Forces that Have Driven This Change?


Modern Learning

Design

Massive Open

Online LearningDistance

Education

Social Learning

and Activity

Students demanding a richer learning experience

Highly Engaging

Experience

Flexible Delivery

Models

Challenges of New and

Emerging Technologies

Increased Pressure on the

Business Model

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Finance Industries Are Changing




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Data Centres No Longer Look Like This




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Challenges of the traditional Enterprise Architecture Practice

Multi-Industry Observations and Perspective





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1889 Thomas Edison

“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”

1955 Alex Lewyt, President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company

“Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within10 years.”

2007 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO

“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significantmarket share.”

Traditional EA Practice: Challenges


Trying to guess what technology will look like



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Focus can be lost on the creation of

artefacts, and not Business Outcomes

Agility / Time to MarketWaterfall Approach with Infinitely Expanding Scope,

‘Analysis Paralysis’



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EA not Valued by the Business or ITOften seen as road blocks to Business Innovation

Roles vs Titles

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Shadow IT /

Shadow Enterprise Architecture

Siloed / Fragmented

Domain Architecture

Business

Architecture

Application

ArchitectureData Architecture

Technology

Architecture



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What Challenges does your EA Practice Face?



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The Future of Enterprise Architecture


Transforming the EA Practice




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Transforming the EA Practice


Business Outcomes and Understanding the Business

Pragmatic Approach / Just Enough Architecture (MVP)

Agility / Failing Fast

Increased Focus On

Enhancing Cross Functional Domain Architecture

People and Interactions

Right Sized Use of Documentation / Frameworks



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Pragmatic Approach (Business Outcome to Solution)

Modelling and

Analysis of

Benefits and

Value

Input into

Business

Case. Further

refined after

Solution has

been

determined

Strategy

Workshops /

Initial Benefits

Determination

Strategy Brief

(Vision,

Principles,

Alignment to

Business)

Baseline As-

Is, Develop

To-Be, Gap

Analysis,

Capability

Model

Roadmap(s) &

High Level

Execution

Plans

Workshop Use

Cases and

Potential

Focus Areas

Agreed Scope

of Architecture

Scope Definition

Strategy / VisionDevelopment

Roadmaps & Planning

Benefits Analysis

HighLevel SolutionArchitecture

1

2

3

4

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Executive Vision

Corporate / Business Strategy

Technology Trends

Challenges / Pain Points

Peer Analysis

Workshops and

Discovery

Executive

Summary & High

Level Plans

Key Activities

Key Outcomes

Design / Deployment

Enterprise Architecture (1 – 3 Months)

Detailed Architecture /

Design

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Problem Statement / Enterprise Goals

Must have Executive Sponsorship

Solution Architecture / Design

Reference: VMware Advisory Services 2016

Design / Implementation

Methodologies

Just Enough Architecture (MVP) / Pick a Business Problem or Use Case

Business Architecture / Existing EA



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Improved Agility by Integrating with other Methodologies

Enterprise ArchitectureVision Principles Baseline / Target / Gaps

Application / Data / Information

Agile, SOA, Kanban, DevOps

Business Goals, Objectives and Challenges

DevOps, ITIL, Service Oriented IT

EA

: D

efi

ne

Models / Standards / Roadmap / Building Blocks

Technology Layer

IT Operations De

vO

ps /

Agile

EA

Solutions Developed using Agile/DevOps/Other

Secu

rity

EA

: G

uid

e/G

overn

Define the Black

box (capability

level only)

Architect, Build and

Deploy the Black

box

Run & Manage

the Black box

Business

Requirements

translated into User

Stories



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EA provides governance to

ensure alignment to Vision and

Principles.

Agile Team Agile Team Agile Team

EA works with Sprint Based

Domain Architects to

facilitate the creation of

Architecture

EA

Enterprise Architecture Team

EA EA

EA can scale across multiple

teams, depending on the size

of the organisation

Also provides a closed loop

to update any central EA

components if required.

Improved Agility by Integrating with other Methodologies


Embed an Enterprise Architect into Agile Project Teams / Sprint Teams



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Integrating EA with Agile Methodologies


How is your EA Practice integrated or interfaced

with other methodologies?



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Future of EA: Architecture Domains Still Relevant?


Business Architecture

Application Architecture Data Architecture

Technology Architecture

“BDAT-stack will not suffice for any form of enterprise-architecture other than for

the single very narrow, very specific domain of in-house IT-infrastructure”

– Tom Graves (Tetradian)



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Future of EA: Borderless Domain Architecture?


Business

Application

Security E

nable

rsG

oals

/ O

bje

ctives / S

trate

gy

Increased Convergence of Architecture

Domains to reduce/remove silos

Information

People / Interactions

Technology



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Future of EA: Skill Focus and Specialisations?


Generalist or Specialist? What do you think?

“Generalists are able to look at things frommultiple perspectives”

John Zachman - “someday, there may need to be specialists for every cell in the framework”VMworld 2017 Content: N

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EA should be the Glue……..




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Any Questions?

Join us for the Leading Digital Transformation dinner tonight (5pm to 7pm)

• 2nd Floor of the Border Grill – Mandalay Bay




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Some Recommended Reading

Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken

• http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2014/07/11/is-enterprise-architecture-completely-broken/#7811d3bb2f30

Dump the BDAT-stack!

• http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/04/11/dump-the-bdat-stack/

Enterprise Architecture – A Status Report

• http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/08/21/ea-status-report/

Avoiding Analysis Paralysis with Just Enough Architecture

• https://www.corso3.com/blog/avoiding-analysis-paralysis-with-just-enough-enterprise-architecture




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