Episode 71 – Business Architecture Implementation – A User Story: Breanne Casteel
How do I get started? What is the first thing that I look at? Who will be my allies? What do I need to put in place? When you are tasked to build a brand new Business Architecture practice in an organization that has not had one before is a challenging task. When you have to do this in a 60-year old organization in a field that is relatively unique on the market, that might be even more challenging.
Our guest in this episode is Breanne Casteel, a catalyst for change enablement through collaboration and connections to drive empathetic business solutions.
She is a passionate advocate with 20+ years experience bringing awareness of Business Architecture and Business Analysis skills and mindset to numerous roles in the organization with an emphasis on communication, transparency, and collaboration across silos.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Breanne’s background
- The case for Business Architecture
- Finding sponsorship and allies
- Creating and showing the value of Business Architecture day-by-day
- (Lack of) Reference models
- How to get started without a BPM tool first – and then choosing one after the start
- Planning and building a roadmap – for the organization and the business architecture team as well
- Setting up a strategic project portfolio for the organization
You can find Breanne on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breannecasteel/.
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Ep. 71 – Business Architecture Implementation – A User Story: Breanne Casteel – What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Additional information
We referred to a couple of previous shows in this episode that might be helpful for you:
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Lofi Lobby Loop (Interlude 1)
- MetricOffBeat (Interlude 2)
- South Wing (Outro)
Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).
He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from the definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.
Roland has had many roles: VP of Global Consulting at iGrafx, Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, Director in KPMG’s Advisory (running the EA offering for the US firm), and other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.
