Quality Enhancement in Creating Enterprise Architecture: Relevance of Academic Models in Practice

Nakakawa, Agnes; Bommel, P. van; Proper, Henderik A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01859-6_7

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“…In this research, the identified problem in the application domain (as earlier reported in [19,20]) was the challenge of effectively supporting collaborative problem solving or decision making during enterprise architecture creation (see top left part of Fig. 1).…”

Section: Design Science Research Methodologymentioning

confidence: 87%

“…A discussion of how the contents of the theoretical knowledge base were adapted to design the CEADA method was earlier presented in [19,20,21,22], however section 5 gives a brief explanation of how the adaptation was done.…”

Section: Design Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The CEADA method was initially evaluated using an analytical approach (see [20,21]). It has been further evaluated using an experiment and two real cases.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On Supporting Collaborative Problem Solving in Enterprise Architecture Creation

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Proper

2010

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Creating enterprise architecture can be perceived as a creative problem solving task, since it involves managing organizational complexity and inflexibility by devising a synergic solution from all organizational units. Creative (or collaborative) problem solving in several fields has been supported by supplementing domain specific techniques with functionalities of a Group Support System (GSS). This paper aims to demonstrate how GSSs can also be used to support collaborative problem solving in enterprise architecture creation. Using the Design Science research methodology, a method was designed to support collaborative problem solving during architecture creation. This method draws from enterprise architecture approaches that are used in practice, and collaborative problem solving theories in academia. It has been evaluated using an experiment and two real life cases. This paper presents findings from this evaluation. The findings were used to refine the method, and they indicate that the effectiveness of academia-based artifacts in addressing problems encountered in practice, can only be achieved through continuous and diverse evaluation of these artifacts in practice.

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Section: Design Science Research Methodologymentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Design Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

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On Supporting Collaborative Problem Solving in Enterprise Architecture Creation

Nakakawa

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Proper

2010

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“…Researchers have raised concerns about the relationship between the interactions between architects and their stakeholders and the outcomes of EAI initiatives (Bui, 2015;Malta & Sousa, 2012;Van der Raadt et al, 2008;Van der Raadt, Bonnet, Schouten, & van Vliet, 2010). Nakakawa, van Bommel, and Proper (2009) argue that collaboration between architects and stakeholders is the most critical factor in the outcome of an EAI and that the ability of architects to surface and reconcile requirements ambiguities influences acceptance and adoption of the EAI. Hoyland (2012) stated that the ability of architects to gain acceptance for strategic-level solutions is likely to be influenced more by their ability to communicate and engage effectively with stakeholders across and at different levels of the organization than using current EA modelling tools and techniques, which were proprietary, time consuming, and unable to fully represent the complex behaviours that are the basis of EAI problems.…”

Section: Enterprise Architecture Implementationmentioning

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Enterprise architecture implementation as interpersonal connection: Building support and commitment

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Scheepers

2019

Information Systems Journal

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“…31 This implies that achieving a shared understanding directly improves the priorities of stakeholders, and this consequently results in consensus on quality criteria for design alternatives. 66 Therefore, relation 25 means that a shared understanding among stakeholders leads to an improvement in their priorities, while relation 26 means that an improvement in stakeholders' priorities leads to consensus on quality criteria for design alternatives. Consequently, if stakeholders have reached consensus on quality criteria for evaluating alternatives, this will lead to effective evaluation of alternatives (as indicated by relation 17).…”

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Definition and Validation of Requirements for Collaborative Decision-Making in Enterprise Architecture Creation

Nakakawa

Bommel

Proper

2011

Int. J. Coop. Info. Syst.

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Gartner advises that for enterprise architecture development to be successful, it is vital that enterprise architects ensure effective communication and also form virtual teams that create and agree on enterprise architecture content. One of the ways to achieve this is to enforce Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) during enterprise architecture creation. Guided by Design Science, we are developing a method referred to as Collaborative Evaluation of (Enterprise) Architecture Design Alternatives (CEADA) to enable CDM during enterprise architecture creation. The method attempts to resolve challenges in enterprise architecting that are caused by ineffective collaboration between enterprise architects and organizational stakeholders. Requirements for CEADA have been defined based on the causality analysis theory, the generic decision-making process, enterprise architecture frameworks (and literature), and the CDM theory. In addition, Collaboration Engineering has been used to design a collaboration process to address these requirements. Models describing the requirements and the design of the collaboration process, have been evaluated using the analytical, experimental, and observational methods. This paper discusses the implications of findings from these evaluations and presents the validated requirements for realizing CDM in enterprise architecture creation. Thus, this research generally attempts to strengthen enterprise architecting guidelines with collaborative activities, so as to enable effective execution of collaboration-dependent tasks.

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Quality Enhancement in Creating Enterprise Architecture: Relevance of Academic Models in Practice

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

On Supporting Collaborative Problem Solving in Enterprise Architecture Creation

On Supporting Collaborative Problem Solving in Enterprise Architecture Creation

Enterprise architecture implementation as interpersonal connection: Building support and commitment

Definition and Validation of Requirements for Collaborative Decision-Making in Enterprise Architecture Creation

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