Measuring Alignment in Agile Architecture

Length of Workshop: 1 day

Workshop Description

Business architecture is more than just models and diagrams; it provides the broad starting point for the enterprise architecture (EA) process, and contains the whys, whens, and whats of the business strategy and its impact on IT. One of EA’s most important goals is to “align business and IT.” However, this often proves elusive because it is too “fuzzy” or too difficult. This seminar demystifies business-IT alignment by looking at how alignment can be practically measured in IT systems and the EA program.

Cutter Consortium describes in this seminar how to meaningfully measure and assess the alignment of IT and business. You’ll discover why the right place to address this is in the business architecture. You’ll understand how to formulate and describe effective business goals, and how to capture these in the business architecture and apply them to systems.

In addition, you’ll consider the EA program as a business function, and its need for measurements to assess success and value. We review specific measures, such as pre-deployment quality vs. post-deployment quality as assessed by testing, and speeding integration/reducing integration risk by measuring how early in the development cycle integration can be addressed, and we describe how those measures impact the EA program and its processes.

For more information on bringing this workshop to your organization, contact Dennis Crowley by phone at +1 781 641 5125, by fax at +1 781 648 1950, or by e-mail at sales@cutter.com.