Tool-based Support for Organization-specific Enterprise Architecture Management.
Sabine Buckl, Thomas Dierl, Florian Matthes, Christian M. Schweda · 2010
Enterprise architecture (EA) management is a commonly accepted instrument for modern organizations to deal with today’s challenging environment. Effectively designed an organization-specific EA management function can improve the overall agility of an organization. The design of such management function is a challenging task, in which the different process steps, information flows, and roles that constitute such function have to be shaped and aligned. The complexity of the management subject EA and the high number of involved stakeholders further aggravate the creation of a consistent but organizationspecific EA management, and call for tool support during the design phase. In this phase, the designer selects the goals to be pursued, the concerns to be addressed, and the roles to be involved. Based on this selection, the user is supplied with re-usable and practice-proven building blocks that can be integrated into a tailored EA management function for the using organization. Different sources for such building blocks exist, namely the EA management pattern catalog [1] or TOGAF [5], although the latter does not explicitly state such blocks.