Episode 78 – EA Use Cases
I know that this might be a cultural issue, but I don’t see a lot of planning when it comes to projects anymore. Everything is “Agile” and I don’t see that things are seen through that often.
Which is bad, because one of the promises of EA (and BPM) is that someone understands how things are wired up and what to change, so that you accomplish your objective – which should always be business-driven FWIW.
From my perspective this is a step back in the maturity of the discipline of Enterprise Architecture. And given the fact that the maturity was never high to start with, this is not a good development.
To help a bit in this situation J-M and I talk about EA use cases to give you some direction what you can do when you decide that this is a capability that you want to implement in your organization.
In this episode of the What’s Your Baseline Podcast we talk about:
- Short (-ish) review of Episode 70 “BPM Use Cases”
- Recap of Episode 70 to set the context
- App/IT portfolio mgmt / rationalization
- Roadmapping
- Project portfolio mgmt / rationalization (looking at capabilities)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Operational resilience and disaster recovery
- Strategy
- Roles of architects
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Additional information
In this episode we made some references to previous episodes
- The article in cio.com: https://www.cio.com/article/230703/enterprise-architecture-the-scarce-skillset-in-big-demand.html
- Gartner T.I.M.E analysis: https://www.leanix.net/en/wiki/apm/gartner-time-model
- The Strateg-ish podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3h5l2eefFGb9YtPvUVnsDn
- TOGAF Architecture Development Method: https://pubs.opengroup.org/togaf-standard/adm/chap01.html
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Interlude credits to be added
- 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.
