Enterprise Architecture
Definition
This Solution defines the deployment of the PRM and CTM connector, enabling:
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PMO and EA collaboration
- Reduce the cost of information sharing between EA and PMO, supporting more timely decision making
- Track progress against application and technology roadmaps by integrating project execution with technology planning
- Integrate architecture compliance assessment with project lifecycle processes
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Strategic Planning for Enterprise Architecture
- Define roadmaps that provide an integrated view of proposed investments with strategies and project’s impact to capabilities and applications
- Create investment scenarios to evaluate alternative approaches to determine the optimal investment plan
Business Outcomes
Click on each business outcome to see further details on the solution and the challenges it aims to solve:
- Demand Management: Shared governance model to ensure that all investments and projects deliver solutions that are aligned with business and technology architecture
- Capacity Planning: Make prioritization and trade-off decisions that optimize business value by incorporating technology and architectural feedback
- Roadmapping: Integrated roadmap that describes how programs, projects, applications will deliver on strategic and organizational goals
- Work and Application Rationalization: Reduce the cost to deliver investments and projects by identifying opportunities to leverage existing technologies and applications
- Capability Planning: Realize the strategic plan by assessing investments within the context of business capabilities and their importance to the organization
Process Flow
Coming soon.
Connection Points
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1. Enterprise Architecture Assessment
2. Execution Alignment
3. Application Inventory
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4. Capability Alignment
5. Project Associations
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Use Cases
Demand Management
Challenges
- EAs do not have enough visibility into the demand pipeline
- Results in realizing critical dependencies and gaps AFTER project approval process
- EAs need to be able to see demands as they are coming in so that they may:
- Map those demands to existing business capabilities
- Identify gaps in the current capability portfolio (to create new capabilities)
The Solution
- EAs can provide an enterprise-wide view of planned investments through the use of EA demand assessments
- Limits the potential problems that will arise from misaligned programs by ensuring investment alignment to business and tech architecture at the front end of the planning process
- Helps to drive strategic alignment of investments
- Results in overall project delivery improvement through reduction of project risk
- Promotes architectural standards throughout the organization
| Initiate Demand | EA Assessment | Assessment Results |
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Capacity Planning
Challenges
- Limited capacity requires trade-offs to be made but its not always easy to fully understand the impacts of those decisions
- PMOs and EAs need an easy way to understand the portfolio:
- from different perspectives
- and impacts on other portfolios
The Solution
- Create investment scenarios to evaluate alternative approaches to determine the optimal investment plan
- Understand which scenario accomplishes driving revenue, controlling spend, managing capacity, or all of the above
- Provide summary level information to leadership at appropriate level
- Model investment impacts across strategies, capabilities and technology
- Understand the impacts of trade-offs about what you are or are not delivering
- Communicate how trade-offs affect achieving strategies and maturing business capabilities
| Create Scenarios | Investment and Capacity Planning |
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| Model Trade Off Decisions | |
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Roadmapping
Challenges
- Strategy disconnected from delivery
- Not delivering intended outcomes
- Disjoint between IT and business Initiatives leading to misalignments in the portfolio
- Missed deadlines
- Unintended consequences
The Solution
- Realize strategy through integrated roadmaps that describes how the programs, projects, applications, and products will deliver on strategic and organizational goals.
- Monitor the progress of execution against strategic plans
- Define roadmaps that provide an integrated view of proposed investments with strategies and project’s impact to capabilities and applications.
- Results in better project decisions and use of technology
| Define Strategies | Create the Strategic Roadmap | Create the Outcome Roadmap |
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Work and Application Rationalization
Challenges
- No visibility into the application portfolio leads to application complexity and sprawl
- Difficult to determine the right technology, for the right purpose, at the right time
- Technology utilization is not maximized
- Too many similar initiatives; portfolio interdependencies not understood
- Need to identify project overlaps, impacts, and dependencies to avoid unexpected down-stream impacts
The Solution
- Drive cost out of IT portfolios
- Leverage existing technologies and applications to meet the organizational demand (stop buying new stuff), achieving more rapid fulfillment of business need
- Identify projects that can be merged or no longer needed
- Identify reuse opportunities for applications and technology
- Track progress against application and technology lifecycles by integrating project execution with technology planning
- Drives more timely achievement of the to-be state
| Track Application Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | Analyze investments in context of the Application Landscape | Assess investment impact against technology portfolio |
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| Keep up to date with project status | Measure Application Costs Over Time |
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Capacity Planning
Challenges
- Limited capacity requires trade-offs to be made but its not always easy to fully understand the impacts of those decisions
- PMOs and EAs need an easy way to understand the portfolio:
- from different perspectives
- and impacts on other portfolios
The Solution
- Create investment scenarios to evaluate alternative approaches to determine the optimal investment plan
- Understand which scenario accomplishes driving revenue, controlling spend, managing capacity, or all of the above
- Provide summary level information to leadership at appropriate level
- Model investment impacts across strategies, capabilities and technology
- Understand the impacts of trade-offs about what you are or are not delivering
- Communicate how trade-offs affect achieving strategies and maturing business capabilities
| Create Scenarios | Investment and Capacity Planning |
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| Model Trade-Off Decisions | |
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Roadmapping
Challenges
- Strategy disconnected from delivery
- Not delivering intended outcomes
- Disjoint between IT and business Initiatives leading to misalignments in the portfolio
- Missed deadlines
- Unintended consequences
The Solution
- Realize strategy through integrated roadmaps that describes how the programs, projects, applications, and products will deliver on strategic and organizational goals
- Monitor the progress of execution against strategic plans
- Define roadmaps that provide an integrated view of proposed investments with strategies and project’s impact to capabilities and applications
- Results in better project decisions and use of technology
| Define Strategies | Create the Strategic Roadmap | Create the Outcome Roadmap |
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Work and Application Rationalization
Challenges
- No visibility into the application portfolio leads to application complexity and sprawl
- Difficult to determine the right technology, for the right purpose, at the right time
- Technology utilization is not maximized
- Too many similar initiatives; portfolio interdependencies not understood
- Need to identify project overlaps, impacts, and dependencies to avoid unexpected down-stream impacts
The Solution
- Drive cost out of IT portfolios
- Leverage existing technologies and applications to meet the organizational demand (stop buying new stuff), achieving more rapid fulfillment of business need
- Identify projects that can be merged or no longer needed
- Identify reuse opportunities for applications and technology
- Track progress against application and technology lifecycles by integrating project execution with technology planning.
- Drives more timely achievement of the to-be state
| Track Application Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | Analyze investments in context of the Application Landscape | Assess investment impact against technology portfolio |
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| Keep up to date with project status | Measure Application Costs Over Time |
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