In the last blog post I would like to summarize my learning and take away from this course. Overall it was a wonderful course with lot of readings from Gartner articles and Ross text book which provided lot of useful insights into building Enterprise Architecture as strategy. Gartner tools we learnt during various weeks provided insights to how to build EA one step at a time and these tools are very useful in each phases. It helped me to gain insights into Enterprise Architecture as strategy and how it can help to achieve business outcomes. Here are my key highlights
- Setting the EA roadmap to align with the business vision of the company
- Understand the business context and stakeholder analysis is the initiation phase
- EA tools are very useful in each phase to analyze and create artifacts
- Designing the Enterprise Architecture strategies and initiatives are key to the success of the organization as quoted by Gartner experts
- Gartner is a great resource library for us to research and learn
- Defining operating model for EA and setting up the implementation plans
- Analyzing the future state implementation and conceptual levels can help in forecasting future business needs.
- Process designs, workflow diagrams, network diagrams, Enterprise Technology Architecture components are handy.
- Knowing the existing state of EA current state understanding is mandatory.
- Gap analysis helps to know the missing aspects of EA and business then we can plan accordingly to close the gap.
- Performance is the key to the success of any project, team or even, in fact, the organization. EA measurement helps in achieving that.
- EA mentions about one project at a time to break down in steps to perform the Enterprise Architecture activity.
- EA governance is another crucial aspect. It deals all the management perspectives of handling business strategy, data, and technology.
- The role of information technology is another key dimension to focus on. It resources play a big role in the organization pyramid.
- Finally designing IT strategy to meet the needs of the organization is vital.