Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Purpose of the Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Why use the Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Service Outline
- Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Knowledge Required
- Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Activity
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Service Deliverables
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Configuration Options
Conexiam Consulting Experience
Next Steps for the Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Purpose of the Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Managing the cascade of direction from strategy to final implementation is made possible through enterprise architecture.
Enterprise architects understand different levels of goals and different planning horizons.
Complex enterprise architecture projects need a clear understanding by your architecture team and key stakeholders of governance. Not some theoretic model. Real direction and controls.
The purpose of the enterprise architecture governance workshop is to help an EA Team:
- understand who has decision authority
- employ performance expectations and constraints in the development of architecture
- understand who are the key stakeholders and their concerns
- know what information they need to develop stakeholder views
- how to create an architecture contract that enables sponsors and stakeholders exercise control of implementation
This workshop needs participants open to understanding the dynamic nature of architecture decisions and how stakeholders assess architecture alternatives.
Why use the Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
Workshops balance training and consulting. They use experienced consultants using a strong method to quickly achieve powerful results.
You get useful enterprise architecture and improve your EA Team's skills, method, and technique.
Use an Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop because your company has scare change resources. It does not have the time to run failed improvement efforts.
Your EA Team will gain:
- clarity of best practice architecture governance
- how to identify the right problem to work on
- understanding of the direction applicable to the problem statement
- performance expectations, constraints and risk appetite
- how to find and apply superior architecture directions
- performance expectations & constraints
- who the key stakeholders are
- preferences and concerns
- how to effectively use architecture to govern implementation
- provide direction (performance expectation, constraint, and risk appetite)
- use architecture contracts
- use the implementation governance checklist
- enable sponsors and stakeholders to direct and exercise control of implementation decisions
Enterprise Architecture Governance Service Outline
Workshop Knowledge Required
In order to complete the Enterprise Architecture Governance workshop starts with a gathering a broad set of knowledge is required.
| Knowledge Required |
Activity |
| EA Context | Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: assessment of the EA Team's capability |
| Capacity to Execute |
Participant Experience & Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: strength of implementation governance |
| Business Context | External Assessment & Interview
Determine business position & ecosystem Critical knowledge: is there a 'burning platform' |
| Business Objectives for Architecture Project | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Determine type of Architecture Project. Support for Strategy, Portfolio, Project, or Solution Delivery Determine
Critical knowledge: Performance expectations and the initial conception of the deficiency |
| Problem Statement | Participant Experience, Document Assessment & Interview
Identify
Critical knowledge: why the architects are in-the-room |
| Alignment with Other Frameworks | Participant Experience & Interview
Determine
Critical knowledge: Normal approach to change and execution |
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Toolkit
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop uses Conexiam Navigate toolkit.
Enterprise Architecture Governor's Guide
Alignment of architecture governance to architecture use case decision cycle case
Workshop Activity
Using the knowledge gathered the workshop activity will create the deliverables and develop skill and experience in your EA team. You will need to specify whether your priority is skill development or the deliverables.
| Activity |
Outcome |
| Interview | Interview with EA Team leader and 1-2 recommended leaders in the organization |
| Interactive Workshop |
Interactive workshop has three separate sections
|
| Deliverables Preparation |
Document Problem Statement
Stakeholder Map
Viewpoint Library
Custom Governance Model
|
| Deliverable Completion |
Joint activity to document stakeholder map and viewpoint library |
| Skill Development | Based on configuration choices |
Enterprise Architecture Governance Deliverables
The formal workshop deliverables are the responsibility of our customer's EA Team. We follow this approach to ensure your EA Team is developing their skills. Conexiam will facilitate their development.
The 1-day workshop will have less formal deliverables.
| Deliverable | Activity |
| Problem Statement | Architecture problem statement including:
|
| Stakeholder Map | Key Stakeholder Map including:
|
| Viewpoint Library | Viewpoint Library for key Stakeholder/Concerns. Includes:
|
| Governance Framework | Simplified governance framework outlining architecture project decision model and controls |
| EA Process Alignment | Alignment of key decisions and creation of supporting knowledge by EA team |
Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop Configuration
Configuration Options:
- Selection between two formats
- Preparation for engagement with stakeholders and decision-makers after workshop
- Interactive with stakeholder and decision makers
- Selection between two time-frames
- 1 day - workshop, deliverables created to whiteboard / outline level, joint analysis and conclusion
- 3 day - joint preparation, instruction of method and analysis, deliverables created to completion, joint analysis and conclusion
- Deliverable or skill development priority
- Delivery model - remote or on-site.
Conexiam Enterprise Architecture Consulting Experience
Conexiam has a small, dedicated team. We deliver transformative enterprise architecture around the globe in many industries. We develop strong EA Teams.
Workshops are packaged services. Work we regularly do in more complex consulting engagement. We simply put together the standard approach and take advantage of our ability to engage in a new context and leverage our method, tools, and experience.
We use a consistent approach, Navigate. Navigate is Conexiam's body of enterprise architecture intellectual property.
Our approach, tools, and method are openly available. We are so confident our method is best-in-class that we let our peers review it. The core of the TOGAF Standard guidance reflects our industry-best-practice approach and toolkit.
Our approach to developing enterprise architecture is the Practitioners' Guide to Delivering Enterprise Architecture.
Our approach to developing Enterprise Architecture Teams is the Leader's Guide to Developing EA Teams.
Our approach to enterprise architecture governance is the Governor's Guide in the TOGAF Library.
Our approach to executing a Digital Transformation is the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation. The government of China is adopting the Seven Levers of Digital Transformation as a standard.
We give away our method. Everything we own is freely available through a Creative Commons license. Take it, change it, distribute it.
If you are considering Conexiam’s services, our philosophy, tools, method, and approach are available
Reach an informed conclusion
We think the choice is obvious
Next Steps Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop
The next step is contacting Conexiam Consulting sales.
We will ask about the scope of the initiative your architecture project will support. We'll ask about the size of the EA team you want involved and their experience. Last we'll ask the configuration questions.
We prefer to deliver this workshop remotely to ensure we have ready access to all of our tools. Assuming we don't need to arrange work permits, we can normally deliver the Enterprise Architecture Governance workshop within six weeks.
You can expect to pay $20,000 and $55,000 for a Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop. Onsite will be about $15,000 more.
The Enterprise Architecture Governance Workshop takes a couple of days and sets you up for success.
We would love to hear from you
sales@conexiam.com
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