Topic List
- Tools
- PACE model
- TIME Model
- Personas - Piet gave a quick overview of the Persona Work for EA at UW
- EA Competencies, Staffing and Teams
- EA Frameworks and Tools (see below)
- Information problems in communicating as an EA.
- Pictures, models visual explanations
- Measuring EA success; "readiness" for next maturity level.
Topic - Frameworks and Tools
- TOGAF was the common framework.
- Most people at a maturity of 1 - 2.
- People like TOGAF because it is specific and proscriptive
- Good available samples
- Layers Conceptual -> Logical -> Physical work well
- U Mich pulled out specific best practicss
- Tools
- MS Office or similar Google Docs, Wikis are what most people use. It is the lowest common denominator.
- UBC used Troux (http://www.troux.com/) to do an engagement analysis mapping capabilities to technology to show gaps and overlaps. Part of strategic planning
- UMUC uses Sparx (http://www.sparxsystems.com/) but dislike it and are stopping.
- Archi (http://archi.cetis.ac.uk/) maps to UML and is a simple tool for working with Archimate (http://www.opengroup.org/subjectareas/enterprise/archimate)
- Scott Fullerton at UW-Madison likes to use UML and MagicDraw UML because it enforces rigor when you need to make sure things are rigorous.
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