Update EA - One step further towards IT Standards

Architectural piece
IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an ongoing development plan, which is why we are glad to share our initiatives, achievements, and important highlights: even more considering the challenges the team has encountered!

What EA has in sight is to provide governance and strategic framework that directs our organization towards desired IT business outcomes and enforced collaboration. By aligning EA principles with Transformation 2030 objectives, the goal is to move from the current to the future state. How? The desired objectives are the direct results of 4 evolving initiatives.

What’s happening?

The Architecture Review Board (ARB) is the common ground for central IT project presentations.

To contribute to the alignment with the Project Portfolio Management, EA has started tracking the presentations by IP numbers. Also, criteria to access the Business Architecture Presentation or the Technical Architecture Presentation have been reinforced. To help the community understand those criteria, EA is to publish its first Intranet, providing guidance to stakeholders.

ARB Stats, May 2021 to January 2022. 25 projects presented. Faculty 12%, Infrastructure 8%, ITS 80%.

Ongoing Improvements

As an ongoing effort to provide more rigor and uniformity to the Architecture Review Process, EA has changed terminologies so that the language used is standardized. Aligning processes is key to efficiency and unified communication is crucial.  

Processes are being integrated throughout the workplace and monitoring has become the next step in improving our methods. To make sure that the IT structure remains reliable and efficient, projects developed need to comply to the regulations: EA has developed efficient tracking methods that has shown significant improvements.

Stats?

Monitoring and tracking not only ensure security, efficiency, and compliance, but also provides clarity for decision making. Statistics, that can be narrowed down to facts, give a good idea on the extent of yearly IT initiatives.