Results of EA

Final Deliverables

Intermediary Results

Intangible Results

In a form of tangible product

In a form of tangible product

Concern

Creating commitment

Shared understanding among the stakeholder

Concern

Designing the architecture

Concern

Designing the architecture

Communicating the architecture

Communicating the architecture

Performing analysis

Performing analysis

Drafting recommendation

Drafting recommendation

Tangible Product

Principles

Models

Views

Intermediary results used to develop the enterprise architecture

The evaluation of alternative solution/direction

Shared understanding

Shared agreement

Commitment among stakeholders

Criteria for Result Quality

Which result should be delivered?

What level of details are required

What are the form of the results

Stakeholder of architecture result

Top level management

Concern

Cost

Policy

Middle level management

Concern

Current situation with regarding of the computerized business process

End user

Concern

Potential impact of the new system on the activity of the prospective user

System Administrator

Concern

Potential impact of a new system on the work of the administrator that are to maintain the new system

Operational Manager

Concern

New technology that they need to prepare for in term of the maintenance process

Impact of changes to the existing application and how secure are the system with the changes that is happening in the enterprise

Architect

Concern

Look into the requirement of the specific stakeholder with regard with the desired situation

Project manager

Concern

Relevant domain and the relationship of business processes and the application that are going to build in term of performance perspective

System Developer

Concern

The modification in respect of the current situation

All other thing that involve the model and view approach

Purpose of model and view

Designing - Supporting architect and designer in the design process from initial sketches to detailed design

Deciding - Supporting decision makers in the process of decision making by offering an insight into the issues/impacts they need to decide upon.

Informing - Supporting the informing of any stakeholder about the enterprise architecture and its impact on the future enterprise

Uses of architect result

Specifying - Making explicit the requirements, principles or designs pertaining to the enterprise, ranging from initial skethes to detailed specifications, including their justification in terms of earlier made decisions

Deciding - Supporting the decision makers in the process of decision making by offering an insight into the issues as well as their consequences and possible justifications, they need to decide upon

Informing - Supporting the informing of any stakeholder about the enterprise architecture and its impact on the future enterprise, possibly including their justification

Contracting - Providing a formal statement of the architectural requiremernts of enterprise components to be realized by a supplier

Sequel Framework for model quality made distinction between

physical quality - how the model physically represented to the stakeholde

empirical quality - comprehensibility of the model top its intended audience

syntactic quality - modelling language use

semantic quality - how well the model reflect the knowledge of the model domain

social quality - model of agreement between stakeholder involve about the model