Building an Enterprise Architecture EA Knowledge Digest

1. Building an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Knowledge Digest Tyson Brooks Haiping Luo a|EA International Standards Committee

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3. April 2006 aeajournal.org 3 EA Knowledge Digest Project Overview Purpose: Store and relate knowledge items pertinent to enterprise architecture in a common repository Project Management: Led by a|EA�s EA Standards Committee Objectives: Capture the wisdom and business practice relating to EA field Establish central EA knowledge repository Build, manage and expand an EA knowledgebase Target Timeline for the EA Knowledge Digest: FY2006

4. April 2006 aeajournal.org 4 Rationale for EA Knowledge Digest Project Currently, there is no EA repository to obtain information regarding EA concepts, theories, approaches, and best practices. Use repository to capture the wisdom and best practice in the EA field and other related fields to support our EA work. Answer the following questions: What are the principles and approaches to transform business architecture? What are the best practices to examine improvement opportunities through the insertion of new technology? How do I implement a successful EA program within my organization? The EA Knowledge Digest seeks to reduce complexity, and provide assistance with stable referenced sources.

5. April 2006 aeajournal.org 5 Structure of the EAKD

6. April 2006 aeajournal.org 6 EAKD Taxonomy EA History: EA history and significant EA Events EA Governance: Best Practices in EA governance development and implementation EA Community: EA community information EA Encyclopedia: EA frameworks and methodology approaches, ontologies (ontology is a data model that represents a domain and is used to reason about the objects in that domain and the relations between them);also includes acronyms, thesaurus, synonyms, standards, requirements (collection of techniques of mapping regulatory requirements to system requirements), Taxonomy, classifications, principles, performance measures, metrics EA Profession Advancement: EA professional information EA Technology: Industry technology EA Intelligence: EA related intelligence informationEA History: EA history and significant EA Events EA Governance: Best Practices in EA governance development and implementation EA Community: EA community information EA Encyclopedia: EA frameworks and methodology approaches, ontologies (ontology is a data model that represents a domain and is used to reason about the objects in that domain and the relations between them);also includes acronyms, thesaurus, synonyms, standards, requirements (collection of techniques of mapping regulatory requirements to system requirements), Taxonomy, classifications, principles, performance measures, metrics EA Profession Advancement: EA professional information EA Technology: Industry technology EA Intelligence: EA related intelligence information

7. April 2006 aeajournal.org 7 High-Level EAKD Artifact Submission Process

8. April 2006 aeajournal.org 8 Next Steps Finalize Knowledge Areas Develop EAKD Metamodel Identify Knowledge Managers to maintain a knowledge area in the Digest Communicate with EA community to provide individual knowledge items Continue development of repository website: http://69.46.27.111/AEA�(under construction)

9. April 2006 aeajournal.org 9 Final Notes Call for your support, input, and participation Will answer questions offline Contact Information Tyson Brooks (tyson.brooks@baesystems.com) Haiping Luo (haiping@aeajournal.org)