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Why is continuous feedback important in Enterprise Architecture?
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Continuous feedback helps recalibrate strategies and ensures that enterprise architects stay aligned with technical and business realities.
What human elements are crucial for the successful implementation of Enterprise Architecture?
Investing in mentoring, coaching, and skill development is essential for building a capable and effective team.
What is the importance of transparency when mapping the current state of IT systems?
Transparency is crucial for creating a realistic roadmap to the target state, allowing for effective planning and decision-making.
How can governance add value in the context of Enterprise Architecture?
Effective governance ensures alignment with strategy, supports decision-making, and can sometimes reduce costs despite often being seen as a hurdle.
What is the importance of understanding the business strategy in Enterprise Architecture?
Understanding the business strategy ensures that IT strategies are aligned and support the overall goals of the organization.
What approach should be avoided when formulating IT strategies?
Avoid strategies that are broad and unclear, like 'faster, better, cheaper', and resist letting vendor roadmaps dictate the strategy.
What role do Architecture Review Boards play in governance?
They provide support, defend decisions, and help align with the IT strategy. They can also help reduce costs.
How can enterprise architects 'sell' the benefits of architecture to business leaders?
By aligning the message to the business view of IT, such as discussing hardware utilization in cost-driven scenarios, they can make benefits understandable to business leaders.
What roles do business executives play in IT strategy, and how does it impact enterprise architects?
Business executives often act as de facto 'business architects', influencing the view on IT (cost center, asset, enabler of new opportunities), which impacts how architects align their strategies.
What does the lecture suggest about the role of models in Enterprise Architecture?
Models are used to manage complexity, facilitate decision-making, and should serve a clear purpose, such as answering specific questions or aiding decisions.
What are the key takeaways for architects mentioned in the lecture?
1. Connections: Align IT and business strategies, integrate different systems. 2. Abstractions: Use models to manage complexity and inform decisions. 3. Decisions: Driven by principles and involve trade-offs, focusing on tangible outcomes.
What misconception exists around the role of enterprise architects being in an 'ivory tower'?
They are often seen as disconnected, only drawing diagrams and giving speeches without involvement in implementation. However, true Enterprise Architecture should be connected and collaborative.
What are the three common views on IT within businesses?
1. Cost Center: Focus on minimizing costs, often considering outsourcing. 2. Asset: Invest in IT to return value, involving reporting to CFO or COO. 3. Enabler of New Opportunities: IT drives innovation and new business models, involving a Chief Digital Officer (CDO).
How does the role of a Chief Architect differ from the perception of being the sole decision-maker?
The true role is much more collaborative, involving alignment of IT and business strategies, and acting as a connector and translator between IT and business functions.
Why is aligning IT strategy to business operating models important?
To ensure IT support is aligned with the company's strategy and operating models, which involve decisions around standardization versus integration.
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