Enterprise Architecture 2010: Questions for EA, SOA and Business Architecture Communities

Have you had a chance to check out our new released EA2010 webcast and position deck?  If you did, great.  If not, no worries.  You can still participate in the discussion.  In our work, we call out the importance of business architecture as organizations progress with service-orientating their business and IT operations.  (Yes, SOA as a strategy.  No, SOA as a technology.)

As you can imagine, we had a lot of healthy (and some circular) discussion as we were working on the EA2010 material.  In the end, we decided we would publish the frame, and use it to solicit feedback and insight.

Some of the questions we would love the broader EA, SOA and Business Architecture communities to chime in on are:

1. Do you agree that Business Architecture as an important emerging enterprise architecture discipline?  Does your organization already practice business architecture?  If so, formally or informally?

2. Where will/do business architects come from?  Are these business savvy technologists?  Technology savvy business professionals?  Today's business analysts?  Other?

3. Assuming Enterprise Architecture 2010 encompasses not only today's technology laden "enterprise architecture" but also Business Architecture, where will it report?  Is this still an IT function?  Does it report to a business executive?

Please share your thoughts with us, as a comment on this post, via a trackback from your blog, or drop me an email brenda at soa-consortium dot org.  If you have other thoughts on the EA2010 work, please share those as well.

Comments

[Mario Biedermann]

I presented at the opengroup conf. in Glasgow: SOA, BPM and EA- the mystic triangle?
short resume of this presentation to your questions

1. yes. as formal as you can. Deliver formal described products and BPD's as new UML 3.0 view. We call this "Tensor" and this is in fact the Model driven Company (MDC), no separate domains (business, architecture etc.)
2.Go on customer front, operate as business analyst, EA,strategy consultant and some more. means 10 years hard work ongoing. Then you get customer reference marketing, that means, you are accepted through your role at customer projects, not by certification of...The C's have very well organised information networks. The problem is to find the accepted entry point.
3. this work drives the business of any company. That means product development and according BPD's, new transfered into non competitive, social and trusted value net's(driven by persons and there responsibilities, engagements, goals etc). May be also as nonprofit organisations (see EPO.org) and some more. Reporting is not the question, progressive drivers and idea heads are searched, to develope new business models (the income side needs numbers, not reports about the W's?).
Not shure that this is an evolutionary process, may be also some revolutions are necessary. See it as open information value network and this is some times more then open source.

presentation slides are on the opengroup / events website.
or send me mail.
Regards
Mario