Establishing Enterprise Architecture Governance: Setting Up Ground Rules

by Tushar K. Hazra

In many companies and in US government agencies, enterprise architecture (EA) governance is already considered as a consensus-driven framework to guide and direct significant architecture decisions related to IT assets and resources that may make significant architectural impacts to the business operations. However, business and IT professionals must get actively involved in using EA governance from its inception. Furthermore, the influence of EA governance must truly span the technology and business domains, at both the strategic and the tactical level.