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Phase A, the Starting Point

Key Steps to Identify Information

Identify stakeholders, concerns, and business requirements

Explore the EA Repository for superior architecture constraints and guidance. Do the Stakeholder Map. Be completely clear which stakeholders must be served and what they are worrying about.

Define scope

What problem are you solving? In terms of the EA Landscape (breadth and planning-horizon) and in terms of purpose, which will tend to confirm the necessary level of detail? Be completely clear where in the business cycle this architecture will be used.

Evaluate capabilities

Take a hard look at the EA team and confirm the ability of the team to deliver on this architecture development project. A good EA team covers gaps in experience, skill, and bias to deliver the architecture that is useful, overcoming weaknesses of few members of the team.

  • Establish the architecture project
  • Identify stakeholders, concerns, and business requirements
  • Confirm and elaborate business goals, business drivers, and constraints
  • Evaluate capabilities
  • Assess readiness for business transformation
  • Define scope
  • Confirm and elaborate Architecture Principles, including business principles
  • Develop Architecture Vision
  • Define the Target Architecture value propositions and KPIs
  • Identify the business transformation risks and mitigation activities
  • Develop Statement of Architecture Work; secure approval
  • Approved Statement of Architecture Work
  • Refined statements of business principles, business goals, and business drivers
  • Architecture Principles
  • Capability Assessment
  • Tailored Architecture Framework
  • Architecture Vision
  • Draft Architecture Definition Document
  • Communications Plan
  • Additional content populating the Architecture Repository