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How to development EA Business Case

6 Steps to Build an Enterprise Architecture Business Case

About ourselves
Our staff
- 1 Chief architect (and infra and app developer and content maintainer)

What we do
- Sharing knowledges
- Bridge the gap of some official blogs which not maintained and need addition content to make them more complete
- 6k blog posts

The audiences
- Architects
- Developers who build service in the cloud


Drivers for EA
Flexibility to include new advance features
Workload jitter
Future visits growth
Cost awareness and control


Strategy for Implementation
The Missing Bits…
• IT Strategy
• Establishment of IT Principles
• Establishment of "Technical Reference Model" and compliance regime

Strategic IT Principles
• At the first step, the principles will be based on TOGAF Architecture Principles
• Basic bye-laws for enterprise management, e.g.
– Strategic Vs Tactical
– Requirements Vs Solutions
– Responsibility for Data

EA Implementation Strategy
Business Case
– Cost of duplicate information
– Cross-project audit identified areas of commonality, duplication and redundancy, e.g. different projects with the same objectives
– Data quality helps saves lives and reduce crime….

Objectives
By this assessment, ...
- Depict a ambigious picture of EA
- Define how will the work products (artifacts) will be organized, and have a basic alignment among them
- Identify the gaps, for any sort of
- Make recommendations for implementing the framework
- Integration
- Agility, to respond to change (new feature etc.)
- Efficiency and cost optimization, e.g. de-duplication
- Manage complexity - This does not mean our IT strategy is to reduce the complexity. It only is to MANAGE the complexity. As long as the complexity is well under control, it is OK.
- Alignment - IT changes need to align to business requirements or changes



Step 1 - Define where you want to go

• Look like in five years?
• Important goals for the company today? ... in six months? ... in a year? ... in 5 years?

Step 2 - Define where you are

• What are the major business challenges the company faces?

Step 3 - Identify your decision makers and stakeholders

Step 4 - Create your value statements
BAF approval - Use company's challenges, goals and strategies to show case the benefits, advantages, and features the company will see what's the business case approved

Step 5 - Show how enterprise architecture drives transformation (using other companies' success case as reference)

Step 6 - Demonstrate the value of enterprise architecture and ways to measure it

company goals
company challenges
stakeholders
How the new EA can help the company achieve the Digital Transformation goals

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