Theme: Jumpstart Your Enterprise Architecture Project

In this issue of the Enterprise-wide IT Architecture (EWITA) Newsletter, we provide some tips, techniques and tools that are particularly helpful in the early stages of your Enterprise Architecture project.

Templates

• Enterprise Architecture Documentation Template (WSDOTArchPlanTemplate.doc, 785 kb), by the architecture team at the WA State Department of Transportation, led by Bob Cummings.

• Architecture Principles Template (Principles_Template.pdf, 40kb), by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer.

Articles

• Architecture Reuse (html), by David McAfee

• Creating an Architecture Vision, Part I (vision_input.pdf,  9 kb), by Ruth Malan and Dana Bredemeyer

Links

• Graphic Guides from Grove Graphics International. For example, the Vision Graphic Guide provides a great way to collect group inputs to a vision, and to organize vision elements. Other useful guides include Context Map, Graphic Game Plan, and Graphic History.

• Architecture Action Guides from Bredemeyer Consulting. For example, the Stakeholder Profile Action Guide is used to direct architecture requirements elicitation.

• The Commonwealth of Virginia Enterprise Architecture initiative has completed it's Common Requirements Vision, Conceptual Architecture, and the first three Domain Architectures: Network, Middleware and Security. These documents can be found at the following link: http://www.sotech.state.va.us/cots/ea/.

   

The following are upcoming conferences and training events of interest to Enterprise Architects:

• July: Bredemeyer Consulting is holding an open enrollment Software Architecture Workshop on July 23-26, 2001 and a Role of the Architect workshop on July 27, 2001, near Seattle, WA.

• August: The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2001) will be held in Amsterdam, August 2001.

• October: DCI and Meta Group are holding the next Enterprise Architectures Conference in San Diego, CA on October 23-25, 2001. This event is dedicated to Enterprise Architecture. It includes full-day pre- and post- conference workshops, general sessions with informative and thought-provoking keynote presentations, numerous technical and case study breakout sessions and several networking and vendor activities.  Register now with your EWITA priority code (BCHTL00) and save $200 off the regular 3 day or more conference package price.  For more information visit  http://www.EAConference.com.

• November: Enterprise Architectures Conference  Europe 2001,  London, UK  in November, 2001

• We welcome you to submit articles for publication in the next EWITA Newsletter.

• Please also let us know about upcoming events or links to web sites of interest to Enterprise Architects.

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