This category contains materials that focus on the Process of Enterprise Architecture.  We discuss the elements related to the following three areas:

• Planning your Approach to Enterprise Architecture
• Executing your Enterprise Architecture Program
• Integrating your approach to EA within the Project Management discipline

While there are many similarities and common best practices across different EA Practices, EAdirections has found that every company has a unique implementation of the approach to EA planning, development, implementation and integration.  The section on Critical Success Factors helps an organization identify the factors that need to be considered for impact on the approach to being effective, while this section focuses on the alternative EA approaches to consider, and further assistance on the nuances of establishing the EA team, method and other structures to put in place for EA success.

Material related to this category:

Tactical Yet Strategic EA

For EA tactical activities to have strategic impact, the EA team should establish a set of future requirements based on strategic direction (called common requirements vision by some), establish a set of global principles to guide consistency across multiple decisions, and conduct trends analysis for both information technology and the business industry in which the enterprise is involved. These activities will provide a basic set of futures against which you can compare current tactical efforts.

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The Real-Time Enterprise

‘Real-Time’ is becoming a primary design point for the Enterprise Architectures of many Global 2000 organizations as well as increasing portion of the public sector. The purpose of this article is to provide background to EA teams to better understand the origins and context of real-time systems.

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