Agile Frameworks for your Architectures
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks are classification schemes of architectures (governance, business, information, data, technical, human capital, cybersecurity, system, solution, infrastructure, etc.) and their important artifacts.
An Enterprise Architecture Framework can be used as a background to report one or more types of artifacts, such as the concepts that make up the architectures.
Framework for Management Views.
The Dragon1 open EA method defines a reference model for enterprise architecture frameworks. In this context, an architecture framework is the coherent set of architectures for an organization or collection of organizations.
With this EA framework, you can make clear which architectures in your organization are recognized and managed. And even more, you can clarify the most important parts of each architecture that you recognize and manage.
The visualization shows any organization's most common and defined domains. And promote that you create your own version of this visualization and make it part of your architecture dossier.
Be sure to define owners and architects per architecture and agree on a definition for an architecture type for your organization. Do this also for all the parts of an architecture. And make sure you've scaled up to all the architects in the organization to adhere to this agile framework.
Different versions of EA Frameworks
It is common to create two of three versions of this EAF diagram: the AS-IS version, the TO-BE version, and the Envision version. Or current state, future state, and envision state.
In the current state, for instance, you may not actively be busy creating a business architecture, while in the future state, you are. You can clarify this using different diagram versions of the enterprise frameworks.
From Diagram to Management Report View
The first visualization shows a management report view of an enterprise framework diagram. It is not a dull, meaningless visualization but a decision-supporting report view of the architecture framework. Red colors indicate that action is needed now because the current situation is blocking the realization of goals!
You can, for example, build views by clicking away layers or filtering out specific information.
This example shows how you can and should, as an Enterprise Architect, report to your stakeholders the status of EA activities.
The second and third visualizations (ideal and realistic) show a conceptual view of the enterprise architecture framework. It answers the question: What are the most essential concepts within the framework?
Framework domains.
In the Framework, more than one domain is missing.
Why Create Enterprise Architecture Frameworks Examples?
You immediately see why you need an EA Tool. Enterprise frameworks have numerous possible views, making it impractical to create and update each view manually whenever a manager requests a new view for a specific situation, aspect, or period.
Now, you want your manager to present clickable enterprise frameworks and have your manager generate the views based on the repository's information by setting parameters like time.
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