Enterprise Architecture in 2010 Means Business

One of the working groups in the SOA Consortium’s community of practice is the “EA2010” group. This group of seasoned enterprise architects from industry, government, systems integrators and vendors, has been actively discussing and defining the next generation role of enterprise architecture. Specifically, what enterprise architecture looks like – organization, practices and people – in a business-driven, service-oriented world.

This week, the EA2010 working group published the first release of their view of Enterprise Architecture 2010 in a Powerpoint deck.  Here's a sneak peak:

In preparation for this release, I sat down with the EA2010 working group leaders, Ashok Kumar and Yogish Pai, to discuss their working group’s motivation, findings and next steps. That conversation is available to the public as an on-demand webcast or podcast.

During our conversation, Ashok and Yogish touched on a wide range of enterprise architecture concerns, including catalyzing business change, gaining business-smarts, shifting focus to business architecture, managing enterprise architecture, participating in strategy and delivery, and winning enterprise constituents.

After viewing or listening to the webcast, please share your thoughts with us. As we discuss in the webcast, this is a work-in-progress and we really want to hear from the broader enterprise architecture community.  Leave a comment here or send an email to brenda at soa-consortium dot org.

And yes, the full EA2010 presentation deck is available for download at the webcast location).  Feel free to discuss and use any and all materials in your own enterprise architecture programs.