Sunday, April 11, 2010

EA Emperor's new clothes and scared cows.

This was a presentation to academic community on Enterprise Architecture (EA). Its aim was to stop them being complacement about how they doing EA - and to try and get them focused on looking at needs to be done for them to actually be successful (rather than pretend what they were at present was useful or well regarded).

Essentially it suggests we need to do things differently
- "An inconvenient truth" and "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" - EA doesn't have a good reputation, and isn't doing a good job.
- "Show me the money" and "Give the business what it needs"
- "From cave painter to strategic planner", "Cast out the beam in thine own eye", "A call to arms" - what EA needs to do to be effective.

It outlines why ROI's are intrinsically difficult and made more difficult in IT by some thinbgs - and changes needed to the: people, processes (frameworks), technologies.

The presentation was published here (https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/display/ea2009/ea2009+Presentations) - Some of the presentation relies on animation in the slides - if you want the presentation just email me.

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