text:
Event Timetable
Sunday, October 21
Get your questions answered in this informal roundtable format
|3.30 - 5:30
Introduction to TOGAF®
Introduction to TOGAF®
TOGAF®, an Open Group Standard, is a proven enterprise architecture methodology and framework used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency. It is the most prominent and reliable enterprise architecture standard, ensuring consistent standards, methods, and communication among enterprise architecture professionals. Enterprise architecture professionals fluent in TOGAF standards enjoy greater industry credibility, job effectiveness, and career opportunities. TOGAF helps practitioners avoid being locked into proprietary methods, utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, and realize a greater return on investment.
First developed in 1995, TOGAF was based on the US Department of Defense Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management (TAFIM). From this sound foundation, The Open Group Architecture Forum has developed successive versions of TOGAF at regular intervals and published them on The Open Group public web site.
TOGAF Version 9.1 is a maintenance update to TOGAF 9, addressing comments raised since the introduction of TOGAF 9 in 2009. It retains the major features and structure of TOGAF 9, thereby preserving existing investment in TOGAF, and adds further detail and clarification to what is already proven.
The standard is divided into seven parts:
PART I (Introduction): This part provides a high-level introduction to the key concepts of enterprise architecture and in particular the TOGAF approach. It contains the definitions of terms used throughout TOGAF and release notes detailing the changes between this version and the previous version of TOGAF.
Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF®9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.
Advanced Concepts in Applying TOGAF® 9
Advanced Concepts in Applying TOGAF® 9
Over the years, the Enterprise Architect has evolved from IT Architecture to Business Transformation agent. In the recent past, most of the enterprises had realized that, to survive and thrive in the tough economic conditions and highly competitive global market, business transformation through innovation in a more agile manner is very much needed. They also realized that Enterprise Architecture is the only discipline that can make it happen. In this presentation, the audience will learn about
Intended audience: CxOs, Enterprise Architects, Program/Project Managers
Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF®9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail and Government sector. Suresh Done is also the Co-Founder and Chairman since its inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter.
ArchiMate® - Adding value to TOGAF®
ArchiMate® for Better IT/Business Collaboration across the Enterprise
ArchiMate is an open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture, supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms. ArchiMate provides instruments to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way.
Developed by the ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group, the latest technical standard is now more aligned with TOGAF®, the world's most popular Enterprise Architecture framework. As a result, enterprise architects using the language can improve the way key business and IT stakeholders collaborate and adapt to change.
ArchiMate 2.0 improves collaboration through clearer understanding across multiple functions, including business executives, enterprise architects, systems analysts, software engineers, business process consultants and infrastructure engineers. The new standard enables the creation of fully integrated models of an organization's Enterprise Architecture, the motivation behind it, and the programs, projects and migration paths to implement it. ArchiMate already follows terms defined in the TOGAF framework, and version 2.0 of the specification enables modeling through the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM).
ArchiMate 2.0 includes the following features and benefits:
The following ArchiMate 2.0 certification programs will also be available:
For more information on ArchiMate 2.0, please visit: http://theopengroup.org/archimate/
The Open Group Certification Programs (Open CA, Open CTIS, TOGAF, ArchiMate)
The Open Group Certification Programs (Open CA, Open CTIS, TOGAF®, ArchiMate®)
Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)
Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA)
Speaker to be announced
Monday, October 22
Attendees can earn up to 10 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) credits at The Open Group Events. The CPDs can be applied towards the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA) CPD program requirements.
|Plenary & Tracks
|Plenary: Big Data - The Next Frontier in the Enterprise
|8:45 - 8:50
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
|8:50 - 9:45
How Companies Extract Insight and Foresight from Big DataScott Radeztsky, CTO, Deloitte Analytics Innovation Centers
New trends are transforming how companies extract insight and foresight from big data. Companies with analytics capabilities that incorporate user experience, outside-in thinking and rapid prototyping are differentiating themselves in the marketplace and with their customers. In this talk, Scott will highlight some of the newest business-led, design-influenced and technology-enabled approaches companies are using to extract business value from big data.
Dr. Scott Radeztsky is an innovator in Deloitte Consulting's Technology, Strategy, and Architecture practice, delivering business results that leverage big data architectures, analytics, design thinking, and visualization.
As an executive strategy advisor, he helps traditional clients build new business capabilities that leverage next-generation technologies, and startup clients solidify capabilities that take advantage of their next-generation technology baselines.
Scott also serves as the Chief Technologist of the Deloitte Analytics Innovation Center, an innovation factory and executive business center where cutting edge visualization, design thinking and analytics help visitors explore the new business-led, design-influenced and technology-enabled approaches to extract business value from big data.
|9:45 - 9:50
|Spotlight: The Open Group Cloud Work Group
|9:50 - 10:35
Boardroom Business Architecture - What Executives Want To Know About Big Data and AnalyticsPeter Haviland, Head of Business Architecture, Ernst & Young & Mick Adams, Chief Business Architect, Ernst & Young
This presentation puts forward a framework to implement effective analytics using a wide range of common transformation tools, that when used in a coordinated fashion unlocks the promise of enterprise analytics. Topics covered include: business simulation and reference models, business intelligence vs. process information, analytics KPI determination, the role of architecture, and strategic roadmapping.
By way of case study material, the presenters will demonstrate that analytics can be fun and easy using SAP BI/HANA in the most complex corporate environments.
Peter Haviland is the Chief Architect and Head of Business Architecture within Ernst & Young's Advisory Services practice globally. In this role he works with a broad range of organizations to design and implement technology-aware business & operating models. He is the co-chair of the TOGAF® Next Generation Workgroup that is responsible for shaping the next version of TOGAF, and the vice-chair of the Value Realization Workgroup that is responsible for the "world-class" series of whitepapers. He was a key contributor to TOGAF 9 and is an Open CA Distinguished Chief Architect within The Open Group's Open CA scheme; as such he has extensive experience working with clients on how best to leverage TOGAF 9 within the enterprise, and set up architecture functions for success. Peter will also be joined on stage by specialists from Ernst & Young's global Enterprise Intelligence team.
Mick Adams is the Chief Business Architect at E&Y's European 'Centre of Excellence: Major Program Transformation'. He has over twenty years of experience in the IT services industry. Most recently he has been working in the number of sectors: Government, CPG, Financial services and Energy (Oil and Gas). He is an accomplished delivery executive and architect and has developed and delivered many end-end complex transformations. He holds the Open Group CA Distinguished Profession Leader certification and was vice chair of the Open Group architecture forum 2010. He continues to develop thought leadership material and has most recently published a whitepapers on Cloud services and AGILE via the Open Group.
|10:35 - 10:40
|Spotlight: UDEF - a framework for describing data to enable interoperability
|10:40 - 11:10
|11:10 - 11:55
Enterprise Information Management - An Architect's Guide to Big DataHelen Sun, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle
For years, we've all complained about being inundated with data—and not knowing what to do with it. But companies have now started figuring it out, applying statistical models, analyzing Web logs, and mining internet content to deliver value to their businesses. The fabric of our information architectures continues to expand as businesses continue to demand more from the data they are collecting or not yet collecting. In this key note session, you'll gain an understanding on the key architecture patterns that Big Data adds to your information architecture capabilities. You will hear about how to recognize big data opportunities, decide which Big Data technologies to use, plan for high-volume, data-intensive applications, and blend historic and real-time analysis. Last but not least, use cases will be discussed to illustrate how Big Data enables new business capabilities and what impact an Information Architecture with the Big Data Capability has on other architecture domains including the application and the technology layer.
Helen Sun has fifteen years of business and technology leadership experience in a variety of industries including financial services, health care, market research, and supply chain management. Her main areas of experience include enterprise data management and information architecture including MDM, Data Integration, BI/DW, and Big Data.
At Oracle, Helen assists large organizations through complex business and IT transitions, leveraging Oracle best practices and reference architectures to help jumpstart a customer's architecture initiative, and taking proven and practical approaches to solve complex, enterprise-level issues and deliver value-driven roadmaps.
Helen is the lead author of Oracle Information Architecture Framework and Development Process and has published various white papers on Information Management, Data Governance, and Big Data. Helen has hosted a number of webinars on the same topics and was one of the thought-leaders who spoke at Oracle's Big Data Online Forum and conferences including Open World.
|11:55 - 12:00
|Spotlight: Security
|12:00 12:40
Big Data Needs Big Architecture - An Architectural Approach to Business Information ManagementRon Tolido, CTO, Application Services in Europe, Capgemini & Manuel Sevilla, Chief Technical Officer, Global Business Information Management TLI, Capgemini
It is clear that the business side of organizations see many tangible benefits in 'thriving on data': making real use of an abundance of internal and external data to improve results and drive change. With this, the concept of 'Big Data' seems to have become the common denominator for everything innovative around data and information management. The question however is what 'Big' exactly means: is it 'Big' as in 'Obese' or as in 'Size', 'Speed', 'Impact' or 'Importance'? Understanding 'How Big' Data really is, points us to the actual business change drivers. And once we have identified business change drivers, we start to understand what architectural patterns come into play to enable the change. After all: architecture is all about making change happen. Join us in exploring a few of the most typical architectural strategies in Business Information Management and get your hands around all that Big Data.
Ron Tolido is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Application Services Continental Europe, Capgemini. Director, The Open Group. Blogger for Capgemini's multiple award-winning CTO blog, NoProcess.org and SlowPlanet.com, the international hub of the Slow Movement. Lead author of Capgemini's TechnoVision. Speaks and writes about IT strategy, innovation, applications and architecture. Based in the Netherlands, Mr. Tolido currently takes interest in apps rationalization, cloud, enterprise mobility, the power of open, Slow Tech and extreme simplification.
Manuel Sevilla is the Chief Technical Officer for the Global BIM TLI of Capgemini. Manuel monitors the Business Intelligence market, works closely with the vendors to understand their roadmap and to be able to advise Capgemini customers on their strategic investments. As Enterprise Architect, with a very strong expertise on Business Intelligence, Manuel is used to design Big Data and Business Intelligence solutions that are actively part of the customer information system.
|12:40 - 2:00
|Big Data
|"Holistic" Enterprise Architecture
CPD .5 each
|ArchiMate® and TOGAF®
CPD .5 each
|2:00 - 2:45
Big Data and Business Value - The Key Role of ArchitectureRobert Weisman, Principal Consultant / CEO, Build The Vision Inc.
Big data is nothing new, but the urgency to effectively manage all corporate information holdings is. The drivers in a knowledge-based economy are competitive advantage,effective service delivery and increasing legislation and regulatory requirements.
Enterprise Architecture has been used in many large public and private organizations to manage big data and
Those attending this session wil learn thatl:
Robert Weisman, MSc, PEng, PMP, CD, is CEO of Build the Vision Inc. He is a civil engineer who specialized in plans and
Holistic Enterprise ArchitectureLen Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group;
Holistic Enterprise Architecture
The idea of applying architectural thinking to more than just the IT domain continues to spread through the EA community. This track will explore the current status of the continually evolving concept of holistic enterprise architecture, including open discussion about participants' experiences trying to implement holistic EA in their organizations
Len Fehskens, VP Skills & Capabilities, The Open Group;
Walter Stahlecker, Fellow of The Open Group
Walter Stahlecker, Fellow of The Open Group
Delivering Enterprise Architecture with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®Henry Franken, CEO, BiZZdesign, Netherlands
A complete approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA) requires:
TOGAF® 9, an Open Group standard, is the defacto global standard for Enterprise Architecture. It is used by the world's leading organizations to improve business efficiency. ArchiMate®, an open and independent modelling language for enterprise architecture, provides instruments to enable enterprise architects to describe, analyze and visualize the relationships among business domains in an unambiguous way. It is supported by different tool vendors and consulting firms.
Just as an architectural drawing in classical building architecture describes the various aspects of the construction and use of a building, ArchiMate offers a common language for describing the construction and operation of business processes, organizational structures, information flows, IT systems, and technical infrastructure. This insight helps stakeholders to design, assess, and communicate the consequences of decisions and changes within and between these business domains. standard is the leading language for integrated EA modelling, describing the business, application and technology layers and their relationships. In a recent update of the language, two extensions have been added for modelling the motivation for the architecture (e.g., goals, principles and business requirements) and implementation and migration planning.
Based on a comprehensive case study of application portfolio rationalization in a post-merger insurance company, this presentation will show how ArchiMate is used with TOGAF to improve business efficiency.
Key takeaways:
Henry Franken is chair of the ArchiMate Forum at The Open Group. Henry is co-founder of the BPM Forum Netherlands. He has co-authored several international publications and Open Group white papers.
At BiZZdesign, Henry is responsible for research and innovation. Alignment with and contribution to open standards are key. BiZZdesign has contributed to and edited the ArchiMate 2 specification. BiZZdesign is involved in the workgroup working towards the next version of TOGAF® and its alignment with ArchiMate®.
BiZZdesign offers native tooling, consultancy and training for TOGAF and ArchiMate. BiZZdesign offers complete and integrated solutions (tools, methods, consultancy and training) to design and improve organizations. Enterprise architecture, business requirements management and process business analysis and management are important ingredients in the solutions.
|2:45 - 3:30
Porting A Massively Parallel Bio-Informatics Pipeline to the CloudDima Rekesh, Advance Cloud Solutions, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
Recent breakthroughs in genomics have significantly reduced the cost of short-read genomic sequencing. Therefore, to a large extent, the task of full genomic re-assembly, often referred to as "secondary analysis" has become an IT challenge, where the remaining issues center around transferring massive amounts of data over WANs and LANs, managing it in a distributed environment, ensuring stability of massively parallel processing pipelines, and containing the processing cost.
In the present paper, we describe our experiences porting a commercial, HPC-based application for genomic re-assembly to a Cloud Computing environment. We outline the key architectural decisions that we had to make and the path that took us from from purely HPC-type designs in favor of what is often referred to as the Big Data - type design.
Those who attend this session will learn that:
Dima Rekesh is part of the IBM Global Technology Services Advanced Cloud Solutions Team. In the past, he worked on a number of large-scale Web application platforms, emerging technologies, as well as leadership data centers and green data center strategies.
Implementing EA with TOGAF® and ArchiMate®Peter Filip, Tatra Bank, Slovakia
Tatra Bank as top three player on Slovak banking market has very strong ambition to promote and replace competitors at first place in more KPIs. Bank has formulated clear vision, strategy and differentiating aspect on the market. The bank formulated it into the "brand promise". However, achieving this promise needs many improvements in the bank behaviour. One of the changes that is helping to be better bank was the introduction of structured and corporate-wide adpotion of EA governance. The fact is, that EA is not the core business of the bank, so on the journey of EA implementation the bank has utilized many knowledge from outside of organization. One of two major sources of knowledge were open standards related to the EA.
Previous career includes solution architect position in many key large bank projects (front end strategy and implementation, crm strategy and implementation, internetbanking, loan origination platform), project management role in various projects, leading department of IT analysts, designing SDLC processes. Majority of the professinal experience working on client side of the IT business, but with an experience from vendor side. Education background was finilized by master degree at faculty of theoretical informatics at Commenius University in Bratislava.
|3:30 - 4:00
|Big Data
|Developing TOGAF® Artifacts
CPD .5 each
|ArchiMate® Case Studies
CPD .5 each
|4:00 - 4:45
Challenges and Opportunities for "Big Data" in HealthcareLarry Schmidt, Chief Technologist, Enterprise Services Hewlett-Packard
Challenges and Opportunities for "Big Data" in Healthcare
Most industries can leverage Big Data and the appropriate analytics to improve margins, predict results, reduce fraud and obtain competitive advantage. Metrics which reveal the business impact of Big Data often are tied to a financial performance. While the Healthcare industry can certainly measure Big Data's value through financial impact, Healthcare also measures value through human impact. Big Data, and its' surrounding information architecture is a technology enabler for improving the health of a population, discovering new treatments to disease and implementing best practice through evidence based protocol. In Healthcare, Big Data saves lives!
This session will cover some of the challenges the Healthcare industry faces when deploying Big Data solutions. It will feature how Big Data is being leveraged to improve Healthcare discovery and delivery.
Larry Schmidt, an HP Fellow, is the Chief Technologist for the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industries within the Americas Office of the Chief Technologist (CT). Schmidt, an enterprise architect and Distinguished Systems Engineer (SE), provides innovation, thought leadership and architecture expertise to HP clients within the HLS and Financial Services industries.
4.00-4.30 Deliverables in the CARTV EA Projects with TOGAF®Santos Pardos, Enterprise Architect, Corporacion Aragonesa de Radio y TV (CARTV), Spain
In CARTV we use TOGAF® for the Enterprise Architecture. The Architecture Project Phases in CARTV are business planning, project
This Case Study will show these deliverables following TOGAF 9.1.
Santos Pardos, Enterprise Architect, workis in IT department for more than 15 years. For the last 6 years he has work in enterprise/IT management, working with Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 9, 9.1).
ArchiMate® as Foundation for Enterprise Architecture at APG Asset ManagementGerben Wierda, Lead Architect, APG Asset Management, Netherlands
APG Asset Management has over the last few years set up a new Enterprise Architecture function. It is modeled along two main principles: 'architecture is done by architects' and 'only one captain on each ship'. ArchiMate® plays an important role here. It is used for modeling the Current State Architecture (currently over 8000 objects in a single model), which is connected to other representations of the EA reality (e.g. a CMDB). Also Risks, Security & a part of IT Governance is modeled using ArchiMate. ArchiMate is also used for modeling an underlying model for Project Start Architectures.
Those attending this session will learn:
Gerben Wierda is Lead Architect for APG Asset Management, the Asset Management unit of APG, the largest fiduciary manager in the world with approximately €300 billion Assets under Management. Before, he was Lead Architect for the Judiciary in The Netherlands, Head of the DIgital Technology Department of the Netherlands Forensics Institute, Scientifc Staff Member of the Dutch Advisory Council for Science and Technology and he held several positions in the IT industry. He is co-founder of the Dutch Chapter of the Internet Society. He holds an MBA from RSM Erasmus Rotterdam and a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Groningen. He is author of http://archimatemusings.wordpress.com/
|4:45 - 5:30
Big Data and Semantics Panel
Big Data and Semantic Panel
Topics to be discussed include:
4.30-5.30 Workshop: Constructing EA Artifacts Using TOGAF® ADMDaniel Spar, Enterprise Architecture Practice Champion, Deloitte Consulting
This presentation in an interactive workshop format will instruct and debate EA artifact building with attendees. A core set of artifacts for each major phase of TOGAF® will be introduced and leading practices for the construction and integration of each artifact will be presented, then debated with the group. Examples will include artifacts for stakeholders, capabilities,
(Note: Creating artifacts is not yet part of TOGAF instruction and this ability is the missing piece in many peoples' skillsets)
Those attending this session will learn:
Dan Spar is a Technology Strategy and Architecture specialist across Deloitte's federal and commercial practices. Dr. Spar has over 30 publication and presentation credits worldwide, across industry conferences, journals, textbooks, and standards.
From Implicit to Explicit with ArchiMate®Mieke Mahakena, Capgemini, Netherlands
Case study which shows how ArchiMate® supports the creation of clear, explicit and unambigious architectures. Examples from the Dutch Tax Authority showing that translating text and free-format pictures to ArchiMate models reveals that the original products contain assumptions and choices which are not made explicit in text or pictures.
Those who attend this session will learn that:
Mieke Mahakena is a Capgemini certified Business Information architect who combines architecture with training and professionalization of architects. She has a leading role in defining Capgemini Academy's architecture training program and is responsible for defining and developing the strategy of Capgemini Academy for architecture training and certification. Mieke was involved in the TOGAF certification standing committee and contributed to the people certification program for TOGAF9. Mieke is in her second term as the chair of The Open Group's Business Forum.
|5:45 - 7:00
|Networking Reception
Tuesday, October 23
|Plenary & Tracks
|Plenary Session
|8:45 - 9:00
Allen Brown, CEO & President, The Open Group
|9:00 - 10:00
EA Management and Transformation Management: Should We Design and Engineer Methods Like Software?Dr. Robert Winter, Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
EA Management and Transformation Management: Should We Design and Engineer Methods Like Software?
In software development, method engineering (ME) is a well established approach to create methods whose application supports the systematic construction of software artifacts. ME is increasingly understood as being 'situational', i.e. is extended by mechanisms that adapt methods to specific project contexts and goals, thereby supporting method fragment standardization/reuse and situated software development. Our central claim is that situational ME can and should be also applied for the construction of management methods in the business-to-IT stack, Such methods should also systematically reflect project context and goals in order to support the construction of situated artifacts like project plans/activities, project deliverables, role specifications or project governance. By applying situational ME, method fragment standardization/reuse, method adaptabiliy to different context/goals and systematic quality management could also be realized e.g. for EA Management (EAM) or transformation management. We use the EAM domain to demonstrate our 'Management ME' proposal to:
(a) analyze existing EAM solutions to discover design factors and identify EAM approach clusters,
(b) specify to-be EAM solution clusters and implied transition paths, and
(c) derive activity modules (= method fragments) whose composition supports relevant transition paths and therefore constitutes situated, context and goal specific EAM approaches.
This talk will conclude with a discussion of TOGAF® from a situational ME perspective
Prof. Dr. Robert Winter is tenured chair of business & information systems engineering at University of St. Gallen (HSG), director of HSG's Institute of Information Management, founding academic director of HSG's Executive Master of Business Engineering programme and academic director of HSG's Ph.D. in Management programme. He received Master degrees in business administration and business education as well as a doctorate in social sciences from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. After eleven years as a researcher and deputy chair in information systems in Germany, he joined HSG in 1996. His research areas include situational method engineering, information logistics management, enterprise architecture management, integration management, healthcare network management and corporate controlling systems. He is department editor of "Business & Information Systems Engineering" / "Wirtschaftsinformatik" as well as member of the editorial boards of "European Journal of Information Systems", "Information Systems and e-Business Management" and "Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures".
|10:00 - 10:30
|Distributed Services Architecture
|Security Architecture
CPD .5 each
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|10:30 - 11:10
Cloud Computing: Catalyst of Enterprise TransformationJason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink
Over the last several years, the world of Information Technology has bifurcated into two world views: Enterprise IT and the Web. The "Dark Side" of Enterprise IT is characterized by monolithic, expensive applications that are partition intolerant, rely upon vertical scalability, and have a single point of control. The "Light Side" of the Web consists of distributed, resilient applications that are partition tolerant, horizontally scalable, and often have distributed control structures. The Dark Side sees the Web as little more than a user interface, while the Light Side sees enterprise IT as ancient legacy spaghetti code. Neither perspective does the other justice.
These two world views have lived in a precarious balance since the Web established itself in the 1990s. But now, Cloud Computing is rewriting the book on Enterprise IT.
On the Light Side, Cloud Computing is all of IT: deployment model, business model, and application context all rolled into one. But in the enterprise, Cloud represents paradigm-shifting change: it's dragging IT into the world of elastic, partition tolerant, horizontally scalable, hypermedia-driven applications. But bringing the Dark Side into the Light isn't easy. Dark Forces (aka enterprise software vendors) are willing to do anything to recast Cloud as little more than a hosted provider model for "traditional" IT.
Attendees of this session will learn:
Jason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink
Enterprise Security Architecture in a Compliance Driven EnvironmentPascal de Koning, KPN, Netherlands
Many ICT-environments have to comply with control frameworks, such as ISO27001, Cobit, Privacy law, etc. We'll take a look at the application of Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA) to reduce the effort needed for those audits, and to enable the priorization of security controls.
Those who attend this session will learn:
Pascal de Koning, MSc CISSP is a Senior Business Consultant with KPN Trusted Services, where he leads the security consulting practice. At this moment he is co-lead of the TOGAF-Next Security project, that defines how risk management and information security integrates into TOGAF Next. He has worked on information security projects for the Dutch central government, European Union and KPN, to name just a few. His area of work contains security management, software security, security requirements management and security architectures. Pascal is a frequent speaker at conferences on the topics of Cyber Security and Enterprise Security Architecture. When not working, Pascal loves to go running.
PRET/TEAR: EA Management Effectivity
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
PRET/TEAR: EA Management Effectivity
Presentation 1
Development of Measurement Items for the Institutionalization of EA Management in Organizations
Abstract: While elaborate enterprise architecture management (EAM) methods and models are at architects' disposal, it remains an observable and critical challenge to actually anchor, i.e. institutionalize, EAM in the organization and among non-architects. Based on previous work outlining design factors for EAM in light of institutional theory, this work discusses the theoretical grounding of respective design factors and proposes measurement items for assessing the institutionalization of EAM in organizations. The work identifies measurement items for the factors legitimacy, efficiency, stakeholder multiplicity, organizational grounding, goal consistency, content creation, diffusion and trust, contributing to evaluate and inform EAM design from several, partially new perspectives.
Authors: Simon Weiss and Robert Winter
Presenter: Stephan Aiers
Presentation 2
The Enterprise Architecture Realization Scorecard: A Result Oriented Assessment Instrument
Abstract: Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a well-accepted, but relatively young discipline. Since most practices are in the early stages of maturity, our research is aimed to develop an assessment instrument to measure and improve the EA management function's ability to realize its goals. In this paper, we propose the Enterprise Architecture Realization Scorecard (EARS) and an accompanying method to discover the strengths and weaknesses in the realization process of an EA management function. During an assessment, representative EA goals are selected, and for each goal, the results, delivered during the different stages of the realization process, are analyzed, discussed and valued. The outcome of an assessment is a numerical EARScorecard, explicated with indicator-values, strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations. The concept and composition of the EARS is primarily inspired by the principles of CobiT and TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM). Two cases are discussed to illustrate the use of the instrument.
Leo Pruijt
Raymond Slot
Henk Plessius
Rik Bos
Sjaak Brinkkemper
Presentation 3
Towards A Unified and Configurable Structure for EA Management Key Performance Indicators
Abstract: The discipline Enterprise Architecture (EA) management aims to align business and IT, foster communication, and support the everlasting transformation of the organization. Thereby, EA management initiatives are driven by respective EA management goals, whose degree of achievement must be measurable. This calls for the definition of corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) enabling enterprise architects to plan, forecast, benchmark, and assess the goal fulfillment. As recent literature in the field shows, there are only few KPIs dedicated to validate EA management goal achievement. Moreover, existing indicators are differently structured, selective regarding the specific EA management goals, too general and vague with respect to the required data, and do not provide any adoption techniques for the enterprise context. In this paper we present a structure enabling the unified and configurable description of EA management KPIs. While the artifact ensures consistency among documented KPIs, it further provides guidance during their introduction and organization-specific adaptation. As first evaluation results prove, EA management domain experts consider the artifact on the whole as being applicable while simultaneously confirming the relevance of its constituents.
Authors: Florian Matthes, Ivan Monahov, Alexander W. Schneider and Christopher Schulz
Presentation 4
On the Categorization & Measurability of Enterprise Architecture Benefits with the EA Value Framework
Abstract: With the development of Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a discipline, measuring and understanding its value for business and IT has become relevant. In this paper a framework for categorizing the benefits of EA, the Enterprise Architecture Value Framework (EAVF), is presented and based on this framework, a measurability maturity scale is introduced.
In the EAVF the value aspects of EA are expressed using the four perspectives of the Balanced Scorecard with regard to the development of these aspects over time, defining sixteen key areas in which EA may provide value. In its current form the framework can support architects and researchers in describing and categorizing the benefits of EA. As part of our ongoing research on the value of EA, two pilots using the framework have been carried out at large financial institutions. These pilots illustrate how to use the EAVF as a tool in measuring the benefits of EA.
Henk Plessius
Raymond Slot
Leo Pruijit
|11:10 - 11:50
Security Management: Compliance vs. Continuous ImprovementVicente Aceituno, Zenobia Consulting, Spain
For the last twenty years, information security management has leveraged compliance in order to get budgets and steer decisions. Complex as it is, it is now the time to align our management techniques with the rest of the business and embrace continuous improvement as our new paradigm.
Those attending this session will learn that:
Vicente Aceituno, CISA has 15 years experience in the field of IT and Information Security. Vicente started his career in the field of network and systems administration and moved into project management and security management. During his career in Spain and UK, he has worked for companies like Coopers & Lybrand, BBC News and DMR Consulting. He is the main Author of the Information Security Management Method ISM3 (Information Security Management Maturity Model)
|11:50 - 12:30
|Panel: Use of Service Oriented Architecture in the Cloud
Delivering Confidence for the Mobile EnterpriseDarren Argyle, IBM, USA
Enterprises want to fully capitalise on the business value of mobility but still have significant concerns about the security implications. To address these challenges, mobile security needs to be viewed and understood holistically from securing the device and the data on the device to secure access to enterprise systems and application security. In this session we will highlight the spectrum of requirements that Mobile Security covers, describe how some organizations have gotten started and introduce the concept of mobile security intelligence. Given the innate dynamic nature of mobility, an intelligent, adaptable mobile security solution is required to provide an enterprise with the necessary visibility, and control in managing threats and risks without degrading user experience.
Darren Argyle is an accomplished senior manager at IBM, over fifteen years of business information security experience, with broad expertise in providing hands-on leadership, strategic security direction and offering development. Darren is certified professional (CISSP, CISM) with a lively but disciplined approach to advancing secure business in global open-networked environments. He also represents IBM on a number of external security forums, including Open Group - Jericho Forum, as a member of the board.
|12:30 - 2:00
|TOGAF® 9 Case Studies
CPD .5 each
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|2:00 - 2:45
How to Manage the Future of a Sustainable Mineral Environment with Electronic Government and TOGAF®Leonardo Octavio Ramirez Gonzalez, EA Global Practice Director and Chair AEA Colombia, Dux Diligens
TOGAF® and Enterprise Architecture are the foundation to support social investment moving electronic goverment to the next level, lets learn about real success stories in Latin America to manage minerals industries using emmmv, etom as a citizen approach service and togaf as the official support framework.
Those attending this session will about:
Leonardo Octavio Ramirez Gonzalez, Dux Diligens, is a trusted Enterprise Architect with 15 years of successful experience applying Enterprise architecture, Industry Reference Models, SOA,BPM and Ontology Coaching to develop effective Business - IT Aligment Projects.
Skills to lead end-to-end implementations with effective leadership, define customer business directions, create solutions, integrate market trends and industry point of view on customer environment, going from assesments and business cases to final executive presentations to articulate IT portfolio into business strategy.
Experience in defining IT strategies and roadmaps, Application Portfolio Analysys, SOA strategies and Roadmaps, Process mapping using Industry Reference Models, Enterprise Architecture and cost-benefit cases for business-it converging conversations.
Experiences in Cyber-hardening Complex Software SystemsTony Carrato, Solutions Architect, IBM & Eric Nelson, IBM, USA
Software systems today are under ever increasing threats. Traditional defenses, such as firewalls, are still valuable but system implementers need to avoid the "crunchy shell with a soft chewy center" problem first described by Bill Cheswich, many years ago. Taking measures to make that center much tougher and resistant to attack is referred to as cyber-hardening. This session will describe what was done in cyber-hardening a set of complex IBM software products, based on lessons learned from many years of system development for, especially, defense customers, who are especially concerned about the issue. The speakers will contrast that hardening with the protection offered by network defenses, such as firewalls, and will also take on the question of air gaps as meaningful protection measures. Attendees will learn which areas were focused on, what was done, and how that could be applied to their own environments and solutions.
Tony Carrato is a Solution Architect in IBM Software Group's Industry Solutions team. He is responsible for working IBM customers, business partners and IBM Research on designing and implementing Smarter Cities solutions. Tony is a member of the Steering Committees of both the Security Forum and the SOA Work Group, as well as a member of the Cloud/SOA Security team. He is also an Open Group certified distinguished IT architect. Tony has over 30 years of IT experience, as a developer, network administrator, security architect and solution architect.
Eric Nelson received a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Chicago before he discovered that software engineering was just as interesting and didn't require writing NSF grant proposals. Prior to joining IBM he designed and developed educational simulation software, a real time discrete event simulation framework and software for financial trading systems. With IBM he has led design and development projects for major clients in retail, banking, and manufacturing. In 2004 he joined IBM's US Federal team where he led the technical work in the Naval Open Architecture initiative, was IBM's chief architect on an R&D effort with the US Joint Forces Command, and led the certification and accreditation of an integrated SOA infrastructure for DISA and the US Navy. Currently he leading the integration of vulnerability remediation into the standard implementation and deployment of IBM products such as the Defense Operations Platform and the Intelligent Operations Center.
PRET/TEAR: Languages for Enterprise Architecture
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
Languages for Enterprise Architecture
Presentation 1
Framework for Creating Pattern Languages for Enterprise Architecture
Abstract: The use of patterns and pattern languages in enterprise architecture (EA) is a relatively novel concept: only a small number of patterns and pattern collection specifically aimed at enterprise architecture can be found in the public domain. Furthermore no framework or method exist that would assist enterprise architects in creating patterns and pattern language for EA. This paper aims to bridge this gap by presenting a pattern framework for enterprise architecture (PF4EA). The components of the frameworks are described as well as a method for its use.
Authors: Paula Kotze and Alta van der Merwe
Presentation 2
Challenges for Automated Enterprise Architecture Documentation
Abstract: Currently the documentation of an Enterprise Architecture (EA) is performed manually to a large extent. Due to the intrinsic complexity of today's organizations this task is challenging and often perceived as very time-consuming and error-prone. Recent efforts in research and industry seek to automate EA documentation by retrieving and maintaining relevant information from productive systems. In this paper major challenges for an automated EA documentation are presented based on 1) a practical example from a global acting enterprise of the German fashion industry, 2) a literature review, and 3) a survey among 123 EA practitioners. The identified challenges are synthesized to four categories and constitute the foundation for future research efforts and pose new questions not yet considered.
Authors: Matheus Hauder, Florian Matthes and Sascha Roth
Presentation 3
Building Strategic Enterprise Context Models with i*: A Pattern-Based Approach
Abstract: Modern enterprise engineering (EE) requires deep understanding of organizations and their interaction with their context. Because of this, in early phases of the EE process, enterprise context models are often built and used to reason about organizational needs with respects to actors in their context and vice versa. However, far from simple, this task is usually cumbersome because of knowledge and communication gaps among technical personnel performing EE activities and their administrative counterparts. In this paper, we propose the use of strategic patterns expressed with the i* language aimed to help bridging this gap. Patterns emerged from several industrials applications of our NONAME method, and synthetize knowledge about common enterprise strategies, e.g. CRM. Patterns have been constructed based on the well-known Porter's model of the 5 market forces and represented with i* strategic dependency models. In this way technical and administrative knowledge and skills are synthetized in a commonly agreeable framework. The use of patterns is illustrated with an industrial example in the telecom field.
Authors: Juan Pablo Carvallo and Xavier Franch
|2:45 - 3:30
TOGAF® and Architecture Requirements - A Real Life ExampleJason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS
In TOGAF ® the concept of Architecture Requirements Management is well defined, however there is very little detail on exactly what constitutes Architecture Requirements, how do you solicit and analyze them and what are the skills required to ensure your list of requirements are adequate reflection of real business challenge.
In this presentation, I will define what are Architecture Requirements, how to solicit and analyse them. I will show comprehensive list of Architecture Requirements for a Real life Business Strategy - ability to Plan Continuously.
Those attending this session will learn:
Jason Uppal, is a professional engineer registered in the province of Ontario, Canada. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, a graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.
Security in Hybrid Cloud Computing LandscapesSteve Whitlock, Chief Information Security Strategist, Boeing, USA
Recent developments in IT are transformative for the business, but highly disruptive to historical information security practices and security architectures. This presentation will explore the impact that new computing paradigms and technologies such as Cloud and mobile computing are having on information security. Specific focus areas will consider how two core security functions - identity management, and data protection - change significantly as a result of cloud and mobile computing. In addition, we'll highlight recent work from the Jericho Forum relating to these developments, including the Identity Commandments, and a new position paper describing requirements for Data Protection.
Steve Whitlock is chief strategist for Boeing IT Information Security. In this role, he provides strategic support for Boeing's long term information security capabilities. This includes the tracking of emerging technologies and the changing threat landscape, as well as helping to influence the direction of the information security industry in support of Boeing's global presence.
With more than twenty-five years of research in information security and cryptography, Whitlock has provided strategic input to numerous global agencies, and has served on writing and steering committees for the Intelligence and National Security Association, Internet Security Alliance, Defense Information Base Technology and Architecture Working Group, Trans-global Secure Collaboration Program, and Enduring Security Framework Activity.
He has served on the Program Committee for the annual ID Trust conference sponsored by NIST, ACM, OASIS and Internet 2 for eight years. He currently serves on the Jericho Forum Board of Management and is Vice Chair of the Open Group Security Forum.
Steve has a master's degree in software engineering from Seattle University.
|3:30 - 4:00
|Information Architecture
CPD .5 each
|Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM)
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|4:00 - 4:45
Exiting the Information Maze Using Enterprise Information Architecture as a CompassRainer Gimnich, Executive Architect, IBM Software Group; Steve Lockwood, Executive IT Architect, IBM, Germany
Today companies are often trapped in an information maze and left struggling to identify where critical information resides or if it can be trusted once found. These pains are exacerbated by an ever increasing speed of growing data volumes, not only structured, but increasingly relevant the need to maintain unstructured data. Getting control of information is thus a top priority for many enterprises.
Establishing an Enterprise Information Architecture program is the compass to navigate out of this information maze in order to deliver trusted information to all users at the right time seamlessly. We will present best practices on how to establish an Enterprise Information Architecture program within an enterprise based on previous customer experiences. In addition, we introduce key architecture building blocks of an Enterprise Information Architecture.
Those attending this session will about:
Rainer Gimnich is Executive Architect for IBM Software Group, Information Agenda Lead Architect Europe, He has 20+ years experience working on Enterprise Architecture with clients, primarily in Banking and Government, with a focus on Business Architecture, Information Strategy, SOA and Existing Systems Transformation.
He is also TOGAF® 9 Certified, and has given presentations at 2 The Open Group Conferences in 2008 (on SOA Migration and as a co-leader of the Legacy Evolution to SOA project at that time).
Steve Lockwood: Executive Information Architect, SWG Chief Technology Office, 20+ years experience working with large private and public sector bodies across diverge range of industries (Retail, Banking, Insurance, Defence)
Supply Chains Have Lifecycles TooJacopo Cassina, CEO Holonix
Securing the supply chain demands diamond-standard Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) at the product instance level, and, because supply chains have lifecycles too, a high degree of integration between PLM and the supply chain is necessary to assure
Those who attend this session will learn:
Jacopo Cassina, CEO Holonix
PRET/TEAR: Enterprise Architecture Management and the Ability to Change
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
PRET/TEAR: Enterprise Architecture Management and the Ability to Change
Presentation 1
Two Speeds of EAM - A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective
Abstract: We discuss how enterprise architecture management (EAM) supports different types of enterprise transformation, namely planned, proactive trans-formation on the one hand and emergent, reactive transformation on the other hand. We first conceptualize EAM as a dynamic capability to access the rich literature of the dynamic capabilities framework. Based on these theoretical foundations and observations from two case studies, we find that EAM can be configured both as a planned, structured capability to support proactive enter-prise transformation, as well as an improvisational, simple capability to support reactive enterprise transformation under time pressure. We argue that an enter-prise can simultaneously deploy both sets of EAM capabilities by identifying the core elements of EAM that are required for both capabilities as well as cer-tain capability-specific extensions. We finally discuss governance and feedback mechanisms that help to balance the goals of flexibility and agility associated with dynamic and improvisational capabilities, respectively.
Authors: Ralf Abraham, Stephan Aier and Robert Winter
Presentation 2
On Enterprise Architecture Change Events
Abstract: In practice it is difficult to maintain a high quality enterprise architecture (EA) model with regards to its actuality and completeness. However, neither literature from practice and EA frameworks nor EA research literature provide sufficient guidance for the difficult task of maintaining EA models. Recently, researchers have presented methods to collect structured data from existing data sources, e.g. from IT operations in order to (semi- automatically update EA models. In this paper, we make an argument for the additional use of EA change events from (management) information systems. These change events do not provide clearly mappable structured information, but can be used to trigger and guide manual EA model maintenance tasks when changes occur. We present the first classification of relevant events in EA literature, detailing on their sources and impact on the EA model. Finally, we propose a model maintenance workflow that is driven by events, explain an example usage case and point to open issues in the context of EA change events.
Authors: Matthias Farwick, Christian Schweda, Ruth Breu, Karsten Voges and Inge Hanschke
Presentation 3
Enterprise Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise - A Vision Paper
Abstract: Dealing with change is a major concern in enterprise architecture. As organizations face increasingly fast-moving environments, systematic frameworks are needed to manage change at many levels. Recent advances in data analytics and business intelligence enable organizations to gain deep insights quickly and recognize needs for change, and to take actions in response. Current enterprise architecture approaches have limited ability to model and reason about the kinds of variability and adaptiveness that are available or desirable in various parts of an enterprise. In this vision paper, we attempt a preliminary characterization of an adaptive enterprise, so as to stimulate debate and research towards EA frameworks that explicitly support adaptiveness as a design goal. Initial ideas to adopt and integrate modeling constructs from system dynamics and goal- and agent-oriented requirements engineering are outlined.
Authors: Eric Yu, Stephanie Deng and Divya Sasmal
|4:45 - 5:30
Information Architecture Model Based on TOGAF® 9 - Applied for Information Management and Governance (Banking Case Study)Sonia Gonzalez Paredes, Dux Diligens, Costa Rica
The presentation is about a model and strategy used to leverage information management and governance using TOGAF 9 and COBIT as reference frameworks. The model is designed to improve IT Governance, setting the difference between IT Management and IT Governance and was applied in a real case for the banking sector in Costa Rica. The presentation structure is:
Those attending this session will about the:
Sonia González, Computer Engineer and Master in Business Administration. TOGAF9 certified level 1 and 2. Five year experience as Enterprise Architect as a chief officer and consultant using frameworks like TOGAF9, Zachman and FEA. Experience in BPM and SOA, IT Governance and Management. Cobit 4.1 and 5 experience. Experience and knowledge leading IT related projects mainly for the Finance and banking sector.
Applying Lifecycle Management to the Leisure Boat IndustryLion Benjamin, Chair, Promise Innovation International Oy
The leisure boat industry is an extremely complex not-so-micro cosmos, generating €23 billion in Europe alone. Several thousands of boat builders worldwide build dozens of boat types to little or no standard classification. Whilst 10 manufacturers dominate the stern-drive and inboard engine market and only 8 the outboard market, there are 50 others vying for position.
Sales and distribution mostly run via distributor and dealer organisations and the engine manufacturer's authorized service organisation is called upon to deal with maintenance and repairs of systems that they are not qualified to deal with. Throughout the boat's life, it undergoes multiple changes of ownership, refurbishments, equipment removal and retrofits.
Boat manufacturers generally lose contact with the boat once handover is achieved bar the occasional need for warranty work. Authorized service organisations have no idea how the boat was used apart from limited data available from the engine management system. Under these hostile conditions whole-of-life lifecycle management at the product instance level may seem impossible.
Those who attend this session will learn:
Lion Benjamins, Chairman, Promise Innovation International Oy
|6:00 - 9:00
|Dinner Event
Wednesday, October 24
|Cloud in Public and Private Enterprises
|EA and Business Value
CPD .5 each
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|9:00 - 9:45
Developing an Enterprise Cloud StrategyDr. Bernard Wong, Enterprise Strategy Consulting, Australia
Cloud computing is a growing trend with the potential to lower costs whilst bringing flexibility into an organisation's IT environment. Even if your organization has a well-designed IT strategy, different issues will surface with cloud computing. As such, the enterprise cloud strategy will have to take this different cloud computing model into consideration. While the concept of cloud is simple, determining how cloud best fits with your business strategy and organizational structure is incredibly complex. It changes the way business and IT interact at a strategic level.
This presentation will look at the many challenges faced in developing an enterprise strategy for cloud. It will look at the myths, the truths, and what would be regarded as the way forward to introduce cloud successfully.
Those attending this session will learn:
Dr Bernard Wong is a Director of Enterprise Strategy Consulting. He is responsible for developing the capabilities of Business Consultants and Enterprise Architects in client environments. In recent years, he has focused on the area of cloud computing and has worked with clients in ensuring their resources appreciate the many challenges faced in migrating to the cloud. As such, he specializes in developing Cloud Strategies that align to the business and IT strategies of the organization. Bernard has over 30 years of IT experience, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a PhD in Strategic IT Management.
When IT Is Core Business and Target Architecture Is Defined By CustomersChristian Holmboe, Chief Enterprise Architect, EVRY, Norway
EVRY is one of the leading IT service provider companies in the Nordics. Having grown through a large number of mergers and acquisitions, the operational architecture and portfolio is highly diverse and much of the operations is siloed and legacy driven with customization to meet the individual customer needs. This presentation addresses how Enterprise Architecture is being applied to drive consolidation and standardization across the company. Over the past year, the Operations Business Area of EVRY has established an Enterprise Architecture function, created and operationalized an Architecture Governance Model, and constructed a target architecture framework. The scope of this work can be compared to a 1,2 billion Euros IT department with 2500 employees serving several hundred different customers' business needs.
The target business, information system, and technology architectures for an IT service provider will always depend on the customer base and their ever changing business requirements. EVRY Operations addresses this by describing the Target Architecture in terms of principles, standards, and roadmaps that provide steering to service development, commercial offerings and implementation work. Historically, EVRY Operations has a highly distributed practice spanning a large number of customer engagements and operational entities. In this context, the enterprise architecture function has introduced a comprehensive framework of architecture artifacts to assist and govern the architectural work. Key to success in doing so is to have strict focus on capabilities and requirements modeling as anchoring for design decisions.
The Enterprise Architecture practice in an IT Service Provider context is slightly different than doing Enterprise Architecture in a traditional enterprise. For an IT service provider, IT is not only supporting the business processes of the company, it is supporting the business processes of each of the individual customer's businesses. Still, exactly this distinction makes it apparent how IT should be handled as a business enabler creating business value, rather than a cost center to be kept at a minimum. For an IT Service provider, IT is an asset for generating revenue – it is the end product that the organization brings to market, rather than support for the value chains generation a company's revenue. Brought back into the context of a single enterprise, IT services should be traceable back to the business value created by the service offering.
Those who attend this session will learn:
Holding a PhD in data modeling, Christian Holmboe specialises in simplification of complex information. With an early TOGAF® 8 practitioners certification, he established TOGAF support in the METIS EA tool in 2004, later acquired by Troux Technologies. Holmboe has recently built the Enterprise Architecture function of EVRY Operations inside out.
PRET/TEAR: Advanced Topics in Enterprise Architecture
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
PRET/TEAR: Advanced Topics in Enterprise Architecture
Presentation 1
Assessing Modifiability in Application Services Using EA Models - A Case Study
Abstract: Enterprise architecture has become an established discipline for business and IT management. Architecture models constitute the core of the approach and serve the purpose of making the complexities of the real world understandable and manageable to humans. EA ideally aids the stakeholders of the enterprise to effectively plan, design, document, and communicate IT and business related issues, i.e. they provide decision support for the stakeholders. However, few initiatives explicitly state how one can analyze the EA models in order to aid decision-making. One approach that does focus on analysis is the Enterprise Architecture Modifiability Analysis Tool. This paper suggests changes to this tool and presents a case study in which these have been tested. The results indicate that the changes improved the tool. Also, based on the outcome of the case study further improvement possibilities are suggested.
Authors: Magnus Osterlind, Robert Lagerstrom and Peter Rosell
Presentation 2
New Avenues for Theoretical Contributions in EA Principles - A Literature Review
Abstract: Enterprise Architecture (EA), which has been approached by both academia and industry, is considered comprising not only architectural representations, but also principles guiding architecture's design and evolution. Even though the concept of EA principles has been defined as the integral part of EA, the number of publications on this subject is very limited and only a few organizations use EA principles to manage their EA endeavors. In order to critically assess the current state of research and identify research gaps in EA principles, we focus on four general aspects of theoretical contributions in IS. By applying these aspects to EA principles, we outline future research directions in EA principles conceptualization, adoption, practices, and impact.
Authors: Mohammad Kazem Haki and Christine Legner
Presentation 3
A Metamodel for Web Application Injection Attacks and Countermeasures
Abstract: Web application injection attacks such as cross site scripting and SQL injection are common and problematic for enterprises. In order to defend against them, practitioners with large heterogeneous system architectures and limited resources struggle to understand the effectiveness of different countermeasures under various conditions. This paper presents an enterprise architecture metamodel that can be used by enterprise decision makers when deciding between different countermeasures for web application injection attacks. The scope of the model is to provide low-effort guidance on an abstraction level of use for an enterprise decision maker. This metamodel is based on a literature review and revised according to the judgment by six domain experts identified through peer-review.
Authors: Hannes Holm and Mathias Ekstedt
|9:45 - 10:30
Working Together to Build a USG Cloud Computing Technology RoadmapDawn Leaf, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), US
This presentation will highlight insights and observations gained in the two year NIST Cloud Computing program, and focus on examples of tangible progress and benefit gained through broad stakeholder collaboration. The session will include an opportunity for interactive discussion to explore the practical reasons that the USG Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap priorities for US agency adoption are common requirements for the broader community of cloud computing stakeholders.
Dawn Leaf is a Senior Advisor in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory and the NIST Senior Executive for Cloud Computing.
Under her stewardship, NIST has worked in a private and public sector partnership with over 30 USG agencies, academia, industry consortia, and standards organizations to achieve internationally recognized milestones in the arena of Cloud Computing. In February 2012, Ms. Leaf was honored as one of the "Top Women in Cloud" by the CloudNOW organization.
Prior to her appointment to NIST in March 2010, Ms. Leaf served as the Deputy Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer for the United States Department of Commerce, the Chief Information Officer of the Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Chief Technology Officer of the Smithsonian Institution.
Before joining the federal government in 1999, Ms. Leaf acquired broad experience in Information Technology management, advanced technology, and large scale distributed systems development and engineering. She served as the program manager for several National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) programs under contract. Ms. Leaf's foundation in IT came from her 1981-1995 tenure with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Northrop-Grumman). Dawn Leaf holds an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering, and is a cum laude graduate of McDaniel College.
Value of EA in the Oil & Gas IndustryAtef Khatib, Director of EA, Cisco, Canada
Management in the energy industry face a number of complex issues that can make for difficult days and restless nights. From volatile commodity prices and skyrocketing E&P costs to increased nationalism, more regulatory compliance and global recessions, there is no shortage of challenges in the energy industry.
During poor market environments, some companies adopt an extremely conservative outlook that includes sharp reductions in capital outlays, across-the- board budget cuts, and significant cost reductions. While these moves may be necessary to weather short-term conditions, they have limited long-term value and, in fact, can hamper effectiveness down the road. Energy executives seeking a more flexible, competitive organization should start at
These business facing processes and systems are built on and supported by the enterprise architecture. While companies typically focus on enterprise architecture from a back-office perspective, enterprise architecture should be viewed as enterprise wide, all encompassing, front and back office foundational element. Oil and gas companies should take a hard look at their investments starting with a thorough assessment of their enterprise process, systems, and architecture.
|10:30 - 11:00
|Cloud Architecture
CPD .5 each
|EA & Business Value
CPD .5 each
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|11:00 - 11:45
Visualizing the Cloud - How to Describe an Ecosystem of Cloud ServicesMark Skilton, Director, Strategy Office, Capgemini
Visualizing the Cloud - How to Describe an Ecosystem of Cloud Services
Cloud computing enables exciting possibilities for new business models based on collaboration between enterprises in business ecosystems supported by cloud services. The design of such ecosystems, the cloud services that support them, and the IT systems that implement and use those services, presents a major challenge for enterprise architects and systems integrators. To meet that challenge, you must be able to present to the stakeholders the essential features of the ecosystems that are proposed. But the models and methods that are used for conventional IT systems are not really suited to Cloud.
The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group is developing a graphical notation that can describe the essential features of a cloud ecosystem in an intuitively convincing way, enabling communication and dialog with stakeholders, particularly business people responsible for making commercial decisions. This is the Cloud Interaction Ecosystem Language (CIEL).
The presentation will explain the need for a graphical cloud ecosystem notation, describe the concepts and notation of current draft version of CIEL, and show how it can be used in business situations.
Attendees will gain an understanding of :
o How cloud ecosystems relate to business needs
o The essential concepts and relationships that stakeholders wish to explore when discussing cloud solutions
o How those concepts and solutions can be communicated, graphically and effectively.
Speaker: Mark Skilton, Director, Strategy Office, Capgemini
Value Realization - The EA Holy GrailJohn Sanders, Enterprise Strategy Architect, Microsoft
70% of IT projects fail to deliver the benefits on which their business case was predicated. Governance based on Enterprise Architecture artefacts can remediate this topical issue. This paper explores some of the tools which can be developed from familiar sources to develop a capability in Strategic Governance, Architecture Governance and Delivery Governance. The capability to deliver value is both a strategic and operational imperative.
Tools are derived from the following sources: TOGAF 9, COBIT 5, and MIT Sloan School of Management. Other references include published work by Colin Ashurst (Senior Fellow, Durham University) and Jeanne Ross (Director, Centre for Information Systems Research).
John Sanders, Enterprise Strategy Architect, Microsoft, has over 20 years as an EA and Head of Architecture Practice developing reference models and governance processes for multinationals, with global service companies like Dow Jones, Logica, EDS, CSC and Microsoft.
PRET/TEAR: Governing Enterprise Transformation
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
PRET/TEAR: Governing Enterprise Transformation
Presentation 1
The Extended Enterprise Coherence Assessment
Abstract: The Enterprise Coherence Assessment (ECA) instrument is a part of the GEA (General Enterprise Architecting) method for enterprise architecture. Based on past experiences with the ECA in a range of real world projects, the ECA has been improved and ex- tended, leading to the extended Enterprise Governance Assessment (eECA). This paper discusses the context in which the eECA instrument was developed, the instrument itself, as well as the results of a large assessment study in which the in- strument was applied. The ECA and eECA use the term 'coherence' rather than the more common term 'Business-IT alignment', since the latter is generally associated with bringing only 'Business' and 'IT' in line. The word coherence, however, stresses the need to go beyond this. Enterprise coherence involves connections and synchronisa- tion between all important aspects of an enterprise. 'IT' and 'Business' just being two of these aspects.
Authors: Roel Wagter, Henderik Proper and Dirk Witte
Presentation 2
Designing EA Management Functions - The Interplay of Organizational Contexts and Methods
Abstract: Enterprise architecture (EA) management is today a critical success factor for enterprises that have to survive in a continually changing environment. The embracing nature of the management subject and the variety of concrete goals that enterprises seek to pursue with EA management raises the need for management functions tailored to the specific demands of the using organization. The majority of existing approaches to EA management does account for the organization-specificity of their implementation, while concrete prescriptions on how to adapt an EA management function are scarce. In this paper we present a development method for organization-specific EA management functions based on the idea of reusable building blocks. A building block describes a practice-proven solution to a recurring EA management problem. The theoretic exposition of the development method is complemented by an application example from industry.
Authors: Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes and Christian Schweds
Presentation 3
Management of Large-Scale Transformation Programs: State of the Art and Future Potential
Abstract: In addition to continuous, evolutionary optimizations, most enterprises also undergo revolutionary transformations from time to time. Knowledge about current corporate practice for coherent IT and business transformation is therefore very valuable. In this paper we present the results of an empirical study on the management of large-scale transformation programs that focuses on IT as much as business aspects. Companies that rate themselves as mature with regards to transformation management, assess certain transformation management components different than less mature companies. Cost reduction, revenue improvement, and agility improvement are the most relevant goals of transformation programs – all these are business goals and not IT goals. Current state of the art transformation management can be classified into three approaches: Value-driven, ungoverned and change-driven. We found that no single management approach covers all these areas appropriately yet.
Authors: Gerrit Lahrmann, Nils Labusch, Robert Winter and Axel Uhl
|11:45 - 12:30
Enterprise Archtecture as a Service – Responding to Challenges in Multisourcing and CloudChristian Holmboe, Chief Enterprise Architect, EVRY, Norway and Mats Rygaard, Enterprise Architect, Cisco Advisory Services
A major challenge for today's Enterprise Architects is navigating the increasingly complex landscape of multisoucing – including various flavours of cloud offerings. Large enterprises are starting to address this challenge by outsourcing their sourcing coordination. That is, they are looking to have a service provider play an integrator role, functioning as a single point of contact for their sourcing agreements. The service provider functioning in such an integrator role will need to build an Enterprise Architecture repository comprising services delivered from a number of sourcing partners for each customer. The integrator should also be expected to offer proactive advice on architectural consequences of strategic sourcing choices, and to identify optimization potential. Supported by a federated enterprise architecture repository deployment, you get transparency across services delivered from different service providers are mapped to your business goals and processes, while maintaining internal governance control and insight.
The takeaway from this talk is how multisourcing introduces new governance structures for enterprise architecture. With your services managed and coordinated by a sourcing integrator, you will – in effect – be able to get Enterprise Architecture as a Service.
Those who attend this session will learn:
Holding a PhD in data modeling, Christian Holmboe specialises in simplification of complex information. With an early TOGAF 8 practitioners certification, he established TOGAF support in the METIS EA tool in 2004, later acquired by Troux Technologies. Holmboe has recently built the Enterprise Architecture function of EVRY Operations inside out.
Mats Rygaard has more than 15 years of experience within Enterprise Architecture from companies like CAP Gemini, Toyota and Cisco Architecture Management Office.
How to Use Enterprise Architectural Concepts to Turn Around Your ERP to Meet Key Business NeedsHans Houmes, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group, Netherlands
Many companies operate ERP as an important part of their architecture. With some, ERP is simply their architecture. Implementations of ERP usually require a huge effort throughout the whole company to get the basics in place. After go-live, management is relieved that the application finally went live so they can now fully derive their attention to the day-to-day business.
In the years that passed, business has not stood still. The company is in the business of manufacturing large engines to power ships, and revenue has grown. Some plants were closed, concentrating manufacturing in fewer more efficient plants. Historically, technical service and maintenance always used to be a necessity, only costing money. Recently it was picked up that clients found service more and more important, and gradually service is becoming a key aspect in winning from competition. Sales people have received a ´blank cheque´ from the chief commercial officer to do whatever necessary to win deals. And there the trouble starts.
There are increasing claims from the business that opportunities are being missed because IT cannot keep up with the changing demands both in sales as well as in service delivery. The IT department is doing what it always does: asking the business to define their requirements. However,: the ERP solution has been heavily customized and there are areas no-one dares to touch. In the past years, additional applications have been added to the ERP in order to cover specific business needs. So, there is a bit of a challenge for the CIO.
To make things worse, the new CEO who joined has recently enrolled his vision in a video message. He will introduce a new business concept: we do not sell engines, we do not sell service - we provide ´motion´ to the ships of our clients, always, anywhere. It is the idea that this concept redefines the business and enables totally new pricing mechanisms. This should boost profits. Previously separated customer offerings such as ´design´, ´build´, ´maintain´, ´service´, ´replace´ will be offered in one integrated concept, thereby providing full service to the customer. Even providing ´finance´ is an option. This inspiring concept is an entirely different way of looking at the business, and requires capabilities far beyond current performance.
The CIO, CEO, CTO and CCO each have a challenge, individually but also collectively. The CIO has a key role to get things moving but also needs to manage expectations. Question is how the concepts of enterprise architecture can help him and his colleagues to crack the problem.
In the presentation (provided there is enough time), the following three themes will be addressed:
The presentation is based on a real case study.
Those who attend this session will learn:
Hans Houmes joined PA in 2003 in the Netherlands and is working in IT Advisory. Hans has extensive experience in IT strategy, Business Blueprinting and IT enabled Transformation, with a focus on manufacturing. Over the past year Hans has delivered work in the area of IT strategy, Blueprinting and IT implementation.
|12:30 - 2:00
13:00 - 13:45 Discussion on Collaboration between The Open Group and Academia
(take lunch to PRET/TEAR meeting room)
|Cloud Interoperability Workshop
|Architecture Methods and Techniques
CPD .5 each
|Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
|2:00 - 2:45
Cloud Interoperability WorkshopDr. Chris Harding, Director for Interoperability, The Open Group
Cloud computing is seen by many as an engine for economic growth, but no engine will deliver power if its components do not work smoothly together. Cloud computing will only deliver growth if users can rely on interoperability between Cloud services. This must be based on standards.
Building Blocks, Patterns and ArchiMate®Bill Estrem, President, Metaplexity Associates and Marc Walker, Enterprise Architect and Analyst, BT
This presentation will examine the relationships between TOGAF® Architecture Modeling Concepts such as Building Blocks and Architecture Patterns and the modeling capabilities of the ArchiMate 2 Enterprise Architecture modeling language. It will present a case study example that shows how TOGAF modeling concepts can be presented using the ArchiMate® language.
Those attending this session will learn:
Bill Estrem is the President of Metaplexity Associates LLC. He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF and ArchiMate.
Marc Walker is a Enterprise Architect at BT He is actively involved in the development of TOGAF. He has conducted significant research in the area of Ontologies and Metamodels for organizing Enterprise Architecture content including a TOGAF Content Metamodel extension for Cyber Defence.
PRET/TEAR: EA Applications
Practice Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET) and Trends in EA Research (TEAR)
EA Applications
Presentation 1
Method Support of Large-Scale Transformation in the Insurance Sector: Exploring Foundations
Abstract: Many enterprises need to handle programs that impose fundamental changes to the organization as well as the supporting IT systems. While general guidance for such transformations in form of methods, reference models, principles, etc. is available, the specific context of the insurance sector is often not considered. We conducted an interview series with informants from major European insurance companies to explore the specifics of enterprise transformation in the insurance sector. The results suggest amending existing transformation support methods by regarding transformation triggers, transformation program types and core techniques. E.g., transformations that deal with standardization, mergers and acquisitions and internal alignment are not sufficiently covered yet and techniques that deal with soft and social aspects of transformations are less visible in the insurance sector. Our findings create not only the basis for a wider survey to extend and validate initial findings, but also for comparing and discussing concrete enterprise transformation cases.
Authors: Nils Labusch and Robert Winter
Presentation 2
The Application of Enterprise Reference Architecture in the Financial Industry
Abstract: Financial institutions are facing enormous challenges in business / IT alignment. Enterprise architecture (EA) is seen as key in addressing these challenges. The maturity of the EA discipline has been growing and standards for architecture frameworks, methods and modeling languages are available. Major issues still exist in EA design and realization. The concept of reference architecture is explored as one of the elements that are essential to improve the quality of architectural work. In this paper we describe the research agenda to ERA. First we provide a working definition for the concept of Enterprise Reference Architecture (ERA). Second we provide a conceptual model wherein ERA is positioned. We will clarify what an ERA is, how ERA can be used to assess the concrete EA, how an ERA can be applied during architecting processes and how an ERA can be applied for decision making by management. The research is based on Design Science and is now in the first explorative phase. Pilot interviews were held with the objective to validate the model. Preliminary results show that the model is recognized and give also insight in current needs for ERA. The research program aims to deliver the following artifacts: a set of ERA norms, an assessment model to assess concrete EA to ERA, a transformation model to support the transformation of ERA to concrete EA and a decision support model for management regarding the concrete EA that is under design, realization or maintenance. These artifacts are given coherence and are positioned in the conceptual model.
Authors: Wijke ten Harmsen van der Beek, Jos Trienekens and Paul Grefen
|2:45 - 3:30
Lean and Agile Enterprise ArchitectureStefan Bente, Cassini Consulting, Germany
Despite large investments, a high percentage of enterprise architecture (EA) initiatives fail to live up to expectations. Amongst the reasons are lack of stakeholder buy-in, bureaucratic processes, and silo thinking by the EA group and its main stakeholders. Under these circumstances, EA easily earns the reputation of being inefficient and time-consuming.
EA can be made more effective and flexible by leveraging practices from agile and lean management. These methodologies have proven their ability to streamline processes in software development and manufacturing. They are a pragmatic antidote against an "EA ivory tower".
A lean and agile EA uses an iterative approach, broad participation across hierarchy levels, and stripped-down processes. Iteration cycles, compatible with TOGAF® ADM loops, ensure a timely result delivery and maximum involvement from all stakeholders. An EA Kanban method, derived from the TOGAF ADM phases, is used to structure task planning for architecture work.
Depending on the specific task (architecture creation, supervision of guideline conformance, etc.) we propose dedicated team structures (using the scrum approach) to leverage the power of self-organizing teams in EA work. The architecture view of complex IT transformations is organized as a custom-tailored "scrum of scrums" team pattern.
The lecture closes with a summary of potential risks and benefits of our lean and agile EA approach, structured according to the four dimensions viewpoint, governance, strategy orientation, and transformation pace.
Those who attend this session will understand that:
Dr. Stefan Bente heads the Enterprise Architecture team at Cassini Consulting, Düsseldorf. He has a long experience himself as senior architect. His focus areas are enterprise architecture and large client-server applications, where he was exposed to lean and agile development methods. He is especially interested in process models for architectural work.
|3:30 - 4:00
|FACE: Ask the Experts
(Live Stream)
|4:00 - 5:00 pm
Future Ariborne Capability Environment (FACE™): Ask the ExpertsModerator: Judy Cerenzia, FACE Program Director;
Future Ariborne Capability Environment (FACE™): Ask the Experts
Find out more about the FACE, gain insight into why we're succeeding in transforming the DoD Avionics Software Enterprise, and learn about our future plans and deliverables.
Chip Downing, is the Senior Director of Business Development for Aerospace and Defense at Wind River Systems, based out of the corporate office in Alameda, California USA. Mr. Downing also serves as the Chair of the FACE Consortium Outreach Committee. A 20-year veteran of the embedded systems industry and a pioneer in safety certification for commercial RTOSs, Chip previously was Vice-President of SCADE Global Sales for Esterel Technologies, selling a model-based design and development environment for DO-178B and IEC 61508 control systems. Mr. Downing has also lead sales, marketing, and consulting organizations at Validated Software, OnCore Systems, Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group, Ready Systems, and CENCO, now part of the Safran Group, selling and delivering DO-178B and other high reliability solutions.
Jeff Howington is an eight-year veteran of Rockwell Collins, Inc., serving in a business development role within the company's Mobility and Rotary Wing (MRW) segment. His current responsibilities cover avionics and mission specific equipment for VIP, search and rescue, and special mission aircraft for military and civil law enforcement organizations. He is currently serving as chair of the FACE Business Model Subcommittee. Prior to MRW, Mr. Howington was assigned to the company's Surface Solutions segment covering GPS and mission computing equipment on board US Army and US Marine Corps ground vehicles. Mr. Howington began his employment at Rockwell Collins as a principal systems engineer.
Prior to Rockwell Collins, Mr. Howington was employed in software engineering and software development management functions. At Intermec Technologies, Mr. Howington was responsible for development teams creating firmware, device drivers and operating system configurations for that company's line of handheld and tablet computer products. At NCR/AT&T, Mr. Howington saw increasing responsibilities in areas such as firmware, graphics processing, and CPU architecture development for that company's telecommunications, automated teller machine and personal computer products. He previously represented AT&T within the PCI-SIG and VESA standards organizations. Mr. Howington has a BSEE degree from Clemson University and an MBA from the University of Iowa. He currently serves as vice-Chair of the FACE Consortium.
Kirk Avery is a Chief Software Architect for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors (MS2) with over 24 years experience in architecting, designing, developing, integrating, and deploying software solutions for military/commercial fixed and rotary wing aircraft systems and simulation systems. Over the course of his career, Kirk has developed and provided leadership in the creation and deployment of multiple modular, open, flexible, scalable, and portable complex software solutions and systems. Kirk is currently a chief engineer/architect with a responsibility for the implementation of the organization's software engineering product-line strategy. Kirk also serves as the FACE Consortium's Technical Working Group Vice-Chair.
Robert Sweeney, after graduation from Austin Peay State University in 2003 was employed by Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as a software engineer. At Rockwell Collins, Sweeney developed avionics software for fixed and rotary wing platforms to include the UH-60, CH-47, CH-53, C-130, KC-135, E-2, C-2, P-3 and E-3.
Sweeney was also a member of team TerraMax, representing Rockwell Collins in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. In January 2009, Sweeney accepted a position with General Dynamics Information Technology as principal software engineer. During his time with General Dynamics Information Technology, he supported H-53 Helicopters (PMA-261) with the integration of the CH-53E CNS/ATM glass cockpit as well as provided support for legacy, in-service avionics.
In November 2009, Sweeney accepted a position with the Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division, AIR 188.8.131.52, representing PMA-209 as the Mission Systems Management Activity software lead focusing on CNS/ATM software for E-2C, C-2A, CH-53E, MH-53E, H-C130H, and P-3C, as well as the software lead for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE). In April 2011, Sweeney accepted a position with the Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division, AIR 22.214.171.124, representing PMA-209 as the FACE lead engineer for the FACE consortium, FACE Academia and naval air platform integration efforts.
Sweeney currently serves as the FACETM Consortium Technical Working Group chairman, which is developing The Open Group FACE Technical Standard and Implementation Guide. Sweeney holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science. He is a member of the Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary National Mathematics Society.
Sweeney was nominated for the 2011 Delores M. Etter Award for the Navy's top scientist or engineer.
Judy Cerenzia is currently The Open Group's Program Director for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) Consortium. Judy has 10+ years senior program management experience leading cross-functional and cross-organizational teams to reach consensus, define, and meet business and technical goals during project lifecycles. She is a TOGAF® 9 certified, DODAF 2.0 knowledgeable, and has led a variety of government/industry/academic collaborative activities. As a Research Engineer for Penn State's Applied Research Lab she coordinated multiple, large projects for weapon technology development and performance evaluation for the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) and the Navy's Torpedo Program Office (PMS 404). She holds a BS in Mathematics and MS in Acoustics from Penn State University.
Robert (Bob) Matthews graduated from the University of Maryland in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering. While in college, Matthews joined the US Army Reserves and spent six years as a CH-47 helicopter mechanic and flight engineer. Bob continued his education with graduate courses in rotorcraft aerodynamics and composite structures before accepting a position as a logistics intern with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Alexandria, VA. In 2004, he received a Professional Master of Business Administration from the Florida Institute of Technology.
In 1995, Matthews reported to NAVAIR and completed a three year Acquisition Logistics Intern Program. Matthews was assigned to the V-22 Program Office (PMA275) as the Deputy Assistant Program Manager for Logistics (DAPML) for Airframes and led the V-22 composite repair programs. In July of 2000 he was selected as the Assistant Program Manager for Logistics (APML) for Tactical Training Ranges (PMA248).
Bob Matthews reported to NAVAIR's Air Combat Electronics Program Office (PMA209) in July, 2002 and is currently the Mission System Deputy Capability Lead (MS DCAP). He is responsible for advancing new capabilities for common avionics processing, networks, displays, digital maps, and data devices. Bob is the PMA209 lead for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) efforts and was elected by the FACE Consortium to serve as the inaugural Steering Committee Chairman.
Dennis Stevens is employed by the Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) in New Business Development. He has over 20 years of industrial experience managing complex integrated systems and software development programs. Dennis's PM experience included managing the development of the integrated communications system for the Presidential Helicopter Program and managing the multidisciplinary teams that conducted the validation and verification of the Presidential air vehicle system and communications systems. His previous program management experience included wireless communications and software development programs for GIS based data acquisition and distribution. His qualifications include: a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, LM Qualified Program Manager, and is certified in Earned Value Management (EVM). In addition to his program management skills, Dennis has over ten years of domestic and international business development experience. He has led the business capture activities for several Federal Government, DoD, and commercial competitions.
David Boyett is currently the project manager for the Modular Integrated Survivability (MIS) Aviation S&T program at the The U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC). He is also the primary software engineer on the Joint Common Architecture (JCA) IPT. David has been one of AMRDEC's primary representatives to the FACE Consortium since its inception in 2010. He currently serves as the FACE Business Working Group's vice-Chair. He also serves as the Chair of the BWG's Library Subcommittee, and has been an active member of the Technical Working Group. He holds a Bachelors in Software Engineering from Auburn University and a Masters in Software Engineering from the University of Alabama - Huntsville.
- Jeff Howington, Rockwell Collins - FACE Steering Committee Vice-Chair;
- Kirk Avery, Lockheed Martin - FACE Technical Working Group Vice-Chair;
- Dennis Stevens, Lockheed Martin, FACE Business Chair;
- Chip Downing, Wind River - FACE Business Working Group Outreach Lead


text:
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Ginger-Crazy for this House::MCM Holidays
If that doesn't warm your cockles, what else will (don't say a Brandy Alexander)? I'm hoping that Red Envelope will still carry the coolest gingerbread house I've ever seen next year.
6 comments:
- ERIN said...
glad you are posting again!
I saw this gingerbread online too and loved it. Not wanting to drop $80 on it, we decided to make our own. We had loads of fun. Unfortunately, our mid-century modern homes ended up looking like mid-century trailer homes!
- January 10, 2008 7:32 AM
- Azúcar said...
Haha! I know what you mean. There's a fine line, isn't there?
I want to try one next year. I'd better start thinking about how exactly I'm going to make it right now. You always forget what a pain it is to make a gingerbread house entirely from scratch until you're elbow-deep in royal icing and misshapen walls.
- January 10, 2008 9:51 AM
- Aim said...
That is a super cool ginger bread house. I came across your blog from Whitney's blog. So I have been lurking on your blog for awhile. A few years back when we were looking for a house we too looked at that house that is on the hill above the stadium. We did end up with a MCM house in Bountiful. So like the other post, did you ever get into a new house?
- January 22, 2008 4:34 PM
- Isabel said...
What a cute house. And so much better then the ones I saw this last Christmas. As a Modern House Whore...this made me smile.
- March 26, 2008 10:49 AM
- marshall p said...
- June 26, 2008 12:31 AM
That's pretty awesome!
- June 23, 2009 2:15 PM

subset: commoncrawl