Aligning Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture
Business Architecture Innovation Summit OMG/Business Architecture Guild Reston, VA March 26 2014 About Export Development Canada (EDC)
Canada’s fully self-funded Export Credit Agency
Mandate is to support & develop Canada’s export trade
Operates like a bank & insurance company with about 1200 staff
Facilitated approx $90B of Cdn trade in 2013
Offers financial tools, trade expertise, market connections
Partnership-Preferred philosophy
2 Contents
Why would an existing EA team support the creation of a new, independent Business Architecture team?
How EA can help
Success factors
“Gotchas” we encountered
3 Enterprise Architecture function at EDC
Description
Translate business Optimize EDC technology investment by translating business strategy into effective strategy into effective enterprise change enterprise change Technology = any systemic enabler of people, process, information, IT interactions, not limited strictly to IT or IS Enterprise Concerned with coordinated outcomes at enterprise level Architecture Business strategy is where we want to go; EA is putting the pieces together to get us there in the most effective way
Responsibilities COE Business & IT strategy alignment Frameworks, methods & industry research to EA principles development & application optimize technology investment & maintain Enterprise target architectures & roadmaps development & upkeep alignment between business & IT strategies Promotion of shared services & infrastructure Architecture assurance & solution certification Execution IT investment portfolio alignment
Target Solution Architecture direction & best practices architectures at enterprise Solution options evaluation context & input level Bus/Info & Solution arch Ownership & management of EDC Technical Reference Model IT trends research & contextualization Development & integration of multiple views into the enterprise architecture – business, information, application, infrastructure Development & communication of EA vision Architecture mentoring & practice throughout the enterprise What’s wrong with this picture?
EA ideal state: Enterprise Architecture swim upstream to sit at the table with Business Architecture the business to Business is define their a subset of business EA…? strategies with Information Architecture them
Application Architecture
Technology Architecture
5 EDC context
Multiple, major & overlapping business transformations Transformation projects encountering frequent “resets” Business pulled off operational front lines onto projects with no orientation Jumped right from Idea into Requirements leaving no “time to think” Would hit a wall, reset, and work back upstream to lack of business strategy Flat, linear initiative delivery process that abetted these tendencies
6 Disentangling the value stream – gaps & enablement
Benefits management
Strategic Innovation Planning Strategy Benefits Business Change Operating Models management Solutions Problem Solving Problem Countermeasures Implement Adopt
Project Management Industry standards
SDLC Plan Requirements Design Build Deploy
7 Semantic decomposition of the disentangled streams
provides return on
Strategic Business drives anticipates realized Benefits Planning Investment Benefits strategy through Management
modifies enable Included in Problem Solving Business Capability- to achieve Value Stream- Outcomes Operating Model
deliver solutions Project to achieve Management
identifies comprise LOB Initiatives Operational Workplans
establishes SDLC
8 Functional accountabilities overlay to address the gaps
provides return on
Business drives anticipates realized through Benefits Investment Benefits PPM strategy Management
modifies enable
Business Included in Capability- to achieve Value Stream- Outcomes EA Operating Model
deliver solutions to achieve
LOB identifies comprise Initiatives Operational Workplans
establishes
Business Architecture Delivery Business Architecture
9 Enterprise Business Issues – Bus Arch gap value prop
Enterprise Business Issues overlay on EDC Business Capabilities Map
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Strategic Business value Planning Problem Solving achieved Value • Business & IT strategies • Enterprise business issue • Operating models Project Supply resolution • Benefits frameworks • Business diagnostics & Management Solution Delivery Chain • Prioritized investment list countermeasures • Continuous Improvement • Structured deliveries Life Cycle • Standards & procedures • IT outcomes that enable benefits to be achieved
• Business & IT strategies • Operating models • Business & IT alignment • Business problem solving • Investment calibration • Demand Management • Architecture direction • Benefits Management • Architecture assurance • Architecture governance Business Architecture Enterprise Architecture
Project & Portfolio
11 Management Keys to success
Mindset: EA never considered Business Architecture an incursion of territory – rather, filling a gap in what we needed to do our jobs
Bus Arch is an enabler not a constraint of EA, with useful separation of duties Allows us to focus & retrench our core competencies, actually increasing our value prop I.e. translate, inform & enrich - not define - business strategy EA likely established first – build early rapport with Business Architecture
Don’t start from scratch if you don't have to: for its own sanity EA developed methods, models & insight that Business Architecture could leverage – and take over the maintenance of
Business Capability Map Enterprise Value Streams Mappings between Lean processes, value streams & capabilities Develop a robust sharing & stewardship arrangement that goes both ways At EDC, had a joint EA & Business Architecture 2 day workshop
12 Gotchas to avoid
Nomenclature
Business Architecture – Enterprise Architecture – Business Analysis
Communication
E.g. at EDC what we didn’t do was get out in front of the message early enough with this type of definition Business Architecture is a description of the organization, including its components and their relationships to each other, that provides a common understanding of the business used to align strategic objectives and tactical demands This can include facilitation of business and business IT investment strategies, development of operating models* and business future states, business problem resolution, benefits oversight and IT demand management *Where Operating Model refers to the working model that a business wants to operate by, including its core mandate, vision, services, organizational structure, performance metrics, information, processes and applications, and how they relate to each other
13 Conclusion and Q&A
For us in our situation, was useful to separate the 2 functions
Does not need to lead to conflict: we will be and already are a better EA team for having a Business Architecture team that can facilitate business strategy, IT demand and business problem resolution, separate from what we do with those outcomes
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