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The changing role of the
Enterprise Architect
Nuno Baptista Expert Services Manager
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EA translates business vision and
strategy into effective enterprise change
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Enterprise Architect ?
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What is changing?
• Strategic thinker
• Business Oriented
• Innovation driver
Mike Walker - Microsoft
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New challenges of EA role
Promote IT-Business alignment #1
Accelerate innovation #2
Maximize investment returns #3
Reduce costs #4
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• Understand your business
• Prioritize your application portfolio
#1 Promote IT and
Business Alignment
Don’t fight the evil business!
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Support the enterprise strategy Manage a prioritized application portfolio
Maximize the business value of IT
Strategy & Budget Corporate /IT Management
Deliver and maintain IT Operation
Measure expectations and
benefits Business Operation
#1 – IT & Business alignment
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• Adopt Pace Layered model
– Flexible governance models
– Try and Fail fast on the right layer
#2 Accelerating
innovation
Holograms will become reality and change your way of communicate.
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#2 – Adopt Pace Layered model
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#2 – Try and Fail fast
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#2 – Try and Fail fast
Built a prototype
• Innovative idea
• Delivery Effort 15 days
• 3 months of experimental
phase
• No performance tune
• Planned new features
Airport ticket validate system
Today
• 24/7 in 5 airports
• Mission critical for operation
support
• ~20K hits per day
• Billing system integration
• Partners notifications
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#2 – Try and Fail fast
Challenge
What is your innovative idea that
will change your business this year?
Golden rules:
• Start small
• Involve your business
• Be fast to change and to fix
• Evaluate the benefit and user adoption
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• Avoid becoming legacy
– Design for Change
#3 Maximize
investment returns
Lucas' first Star Wars film grossed $1.17 billion
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• Measure cost of maintenance
• Build vs buy approach
• Build with a technology that allows you to change easily
STANDARD
DIFFERENTIATING
INNOVATING
#3 - Don’t create new legacy
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#3 - Design for Change
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• Built in Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs)
• Deliver fast
• Change faster
#4 Reduce Costs Using OutSystems Platform™
How much would a Death Star really cost?
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• Migrate DBMS from SQLServer 2005 to Oracle 11g.
• Migrate OutSystems Platform from 5.1 to 7.0
• Migrate physical hardware from 32 to 64bits in VMs.
• Migrate Operating System to Windows Server 2008
• Minimum downtime possible
#4 – Built in NFRs
Standardize and Update OutSystems
infrastructure to recent systems.
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Performant Scalable
Documented Auditable
Maintainable
#4 – Built in NFRs
Portable
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#4 – Deliver fast, change faster
Development
Model driven development
reduces time to build
Integrations are simplified
Maintenance
Built in dependency analysis
NFRs support regardless of
change
Operations
Deployment process is
automated
Performance Management
built in all applications
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New challenges of EA role
Promote IT-Business alignment Understand your business, Prioritize your application portfolio
#1
Accelerate innovation Adopt Pace Layered model #2
Maximize investment returns Avoid becoming legacy #3
Reduce costs OutSystems Platform™ features #4
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Thank you!
Nuno Baptista Expert Services Manager
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