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Wants to learn more about EA to kickstart their career in EA and grow within their own practice (1st steps to take, where do they fit in EA, attend meetings, learn skills, find mentors, etc.)

What is Enterprise Architecture?

A discipline that uses holistic enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation practices, to guide an organization through business, information system, and technology changes, in order to execute their strategies while optimizing investments.

*Found on slide thirteen (13) of the Face2Face 2019 New2EA - Itana: Re/Launching Your Enterprise Architecture Practice slide deck.

Alternate Definitions

Wikipedia, TOGAF, Gartner, CIO.com, Visual Paradigm, EACOE, Sparx Systems, International EA Institute

How Can EA Help Me?

  1. Improved enterprise engagement
  2. Improved organizational agility
  3. Improved quality of transformative solutions
  4. Improved IT governance
  5. Improved IT operations
  6. Reduced total cost
  7. Reduced organizational risk

*Found on slide fourteen (14) of the Face2Face 2019 New2EA - Itana: Re/Launching Your Enterprise Architecture Practice slide deck.

How is EA delivered?

Ad Hoc

Works to identify opportunities, provide EA value to leading opportunities, and through these experiences define the value proposition and scope of an EA practice appropriate to the particular organization.

IT Operational Excellence

Works largely within the IT organize to optimize the technology architecture of the organization and to govern architectural standards and solution implementations.
Digital Transformation

Works as a strategic partner to the functional units of the University to support digital transformation that executes their strategies while optimizing their investments.

*Found on slide sixteen (16) of the Face2Face 2019 New2EA - Itana: Re/Launching Your Enterprise Architecture Practice slide deck.

What Roles Complement EA?

There are complementary architecture domains in enterprise architecture (TOGAF v9.2, chapter 2.3):

Data Architecture

The business strategy, governance, organization, and key business processes

Business Architecture

The structure of an organization's logical and physical data assets and data management resources

Applications Architecture

The individual application systems to be deployed, their interactions, and their relationships to the core business processes of the organization.
Technology ArchitectureThe logical software and hardware capabilities that are required to support the deployment of business, data, and application services.  This includes IT infrastructure, middleware, networks, communications, processing, standards, etc.
Solution ArchitectureThis role often refers to a role that combines application and technology architecture job responsibilities.

Related Resources:

Solution Architects and EA July 2013


What Skills Does an EA Need?

Enterprise Architects need a variety of skills including


Global Skills and Competency Framework: Aligning Skills and Competencies

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)


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EA Skills (Face2Face 2019)

  • Storytelling
  • Leading as an Architect
  • Influencing (12 strategies)

*Found on slides twenty-two to fifty (22-50) of the Face2Face 2019 New2EA - Itana: Re/Launching Your Enterprise Architecture Practice slide deck.

Business Architecture Skills

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Aligning Skills and Competencies New EA Skills Breakout

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Influence and Leadership Skills for Architects: Driving Strategic Decisions


Scoping your Practice: Slide 59 - 66 of New to EA Face to Face 2019

  • Defining Scope
  • Documenting Scope 
  • Strategy on a Page
  • EA Maturity Model for Higher Education

*Found on slides fifty-nine to sixty-six (59-66) of the Face2Face 2019 New2EA - Itana: Re/Launching Your Enterprise Architecture Practice slide deck.


Roadmap documents and techniques:

  • How do you start a roadmap?
  • What is the best way to document them?
  • What are the milestones?
  • What is the logical order?

Roadmap Example: This page contains examples from various institutions along with a short description or each type of roadmap.


Career roadmaps

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List of possible mentors

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