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• Here is an example of EA Organizational Engagement for the Operational Excellence EA Archetype (refer to Itana for this, positioning (Ad Hoc, Operational Excellence — Optimizing How IT Works, and Digital Transformation).  This example shows the most-common arrangement, that EA is reporting into the CIO:
  
• The goal here is to make sure that the activity and direction of travel in each of the verticals is pulling in a consistent and aligned direction, both within the IT organization (infrastructure, applications, etc) and within the extended IT organization.  It is the EA's job to make sure in this EA Archetype of Operational Excellence that all the pieces are working together as they ought to.
• In achieving this we have to position EA as bringing together the community of practice across those verticals, to activate architectural thinking, and to identify people who are acting beyond technology-design and into architecture:
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Group Work

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Group Work Context

The group was split into separate teams that focused on one or the other of the two topics below, and the outputs were captured in the "Group Work" slide deck linked below.  A summary of the outputs follows below.

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These groups emphasized the importance of community engagement, adherence to standards, early and continuous involvement in processes, and alignment with both business and technical goals.  Making sure the EA practice is right.  If the practice is going well then the influence on the enterprise is greater.   The EA practice is where the paycheck comes from.  

Governance Structure

• Where does skin-in-the-game come from out of senior leadership into the EA practice?
  
• What arrangements are needed to ensure that senior people are engaged appropriately at the level of the EA Advisory Board and that there is sufficient meaningful community-of-practice activation and engagement underpinning and testing the architecture in practice?
• This model above resonates with Henry from NYU.

Governance RACI Chart

• Teams were assigned to breakout rooms to explore responsibility-matrix assignments for various EA- and EA-adjacent activities.  The exploratory results from these activities were also captured in the Group Work presentation deck.
• Which activities and artefacts are the most-important, the highest-value, and therefore deserve the time and effort to have the responsibilities assigned and mapped from the perspective of the EA practice?
• Make sure the practice capabilities are well-enough understood before going too deep into the responsibility matrix!
• Undertake this work in the context of EA maturity models such as the excellent Itana EAMM-EDU.

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