Enterprise Architecture SummitCareer Path Initiative

EA Career Path ProjectWorking Group

• Mark Lane – CAEAP, Project Sponsor• Ed Moshinsky - SME• Sandra Hastings - SME• Brenda Byers - CIPS, SME• Maureen McVey- IIBA, SME• Con Kenney – CAEAP, SME• Andy Chen – IEEE, SME• David Lee – CAEAP, SME• Nathaniel Packard, IIBA, SME

Mark presents

Purpose of the Summit

• To engage industry leaders in a working session to understand and record your needs for an EA career path

• Your role - provide feedback, suggestions and information through discussion and workshops

Mark presents

Goals and Objectives

• Participants understand the goals and timeline of the EA career path initiative

• Elicit and document participant requirements for career path and resulting guides and documentation

• Create initial drafts of position descriptions • Elicit and document feedback on– Scope of the EA Career Path– EA Competency work to date

Mark presents

Summit Goals

• Although we may reach consensus or conclusion - this is not our primary goal and is not expected in the discussions

• This is a requirements session• Further analysis is necessary

Agenda Day 1 - MarkTopic Presenter Time

Mins.

• Overview of Current State and progress of the career path team

• Requirements Session: What should be included in Career Path

Maureen McVey 30

• Terminology Brenda Byers 15

• EA Career Path Framework • Stakeholder feedback • Survey Results

Mark LaneBrian McClafferty

30

• EA Position Families Ed Moshinsky and Con Kenney

30

• EA Path Descriptions (scope) Brian McClafferty 45

LUNCH 60

Agenda Day 1 - Mark

Topic Presenter Time Mins.

• EA Competency Groups Brenda ByersNathaniel P

60

• Position Profile Workshop for Strategic Level EA

Facilitators:David LeeSandra HoskinsAndy Chen

90 with break

• Workshop Group Presentations Facilitator: Maureen McVey

45

• Wrap up for the day Maureen McVey 15

• Dinner

Agenda Day 2 - MarkTopic Presenter Time Mins.

• Introduction to Day 2 Mark 5

• Workshop Facilitators:David LeeSandra HoskinsAndy Chen

45

• Workshop Group Presentations Facilitator David Lee 45

• Recap and Closing Mark Lane 5

15 minutes

Addressing Known Challenges in the EA Space

• Consistency in description of the roles and levels of enterprise architecture – practitioner movement between organizations,

• Confusion on how to enter the profession• Hiring qualified EAs • Career paths and competencies needed to develop

existing staff are not structured on a standard

Maureen

What are your challenges?

Background• Research conducted to define an EA career path through input from

FEAPO organizations that already have a career path in place • Traditional roles • Business architect• Application Architect• Information Architecture • Technical Architecture • Less traditional roles adopted by some organizations but missing from most of the

information reviewed• o Security Architecture• o Solution Architect • The EA roles were organized in a both a centralized and decentralized • Career progression varied very differently in all organized reviewed

Background

FEAPO Career Path- Goals •Create a standard career path for the EA professionals and those who want to enter the profession•Provide clarity to the stakeholders to create a consistent approach to the EA profession •To provide guidance to stakeholders wanting tobuild or improve their EA practices

FEAPO Career Path - Objectives• Define the hierarchy and progression of different career

branches and levels of the EA profession thereby creating an enterprise architecture career path structure and organizing framework

• Create Enterprise architecture role descriptions• Define an Enterprise architecture competency dictionary and

model• Develop certification and assessment

“accreditation”/endorsement process

Do the Goals and Objectives of the career path working group address your needs ?

Stakeholders + Benefits• Enterprise Architects – career planning, competencies help them to achieve and

understand job requirements and improve job proficiency, provides a path to certification as a differentiator

• Hiring Managers , Recruiters, and Human Resources: define job categories, help recruit qualified applicants, who are productive, and increase hiring yield and reduce hiring costs.

• Educators: competencies and job role framework helps them produce educational and training products that align to a certification standard increases students interest in program

• Organizations: (consultants, government, commercial, non-profit): to have framework from which to guide and develop their EA practices, obtain credibility by following recognized standards

• Industry Analysts: (Gartner, Forrester) hear the voice of the community outside of their constituent

Scope of Career Path Effort

Job Families and Roles

Career Path

CompetencyModel

Body OfKnowledge

Curriculum

AccreditationCriteria

PreparatoryEducation(Degree)

Skills Development

ContinuousEducation

Foundational

to

Proposed Approach

Competency Work

Role Descriptions

•Discover•Plan•Act •Optimize

Research based

Do you have any questions?

• What do you need us to deliver? Take 2 minutes to write a one or two word answer on the note pad and stick it on the wall.

• If we provide a Career Path Guide what should be in it?Take 2 minutes to write a one or two word answer on the note pad and stick it on the wall.

Brenda Terminology

• Brenda to provide a couple of slides

Feedback from Survey

• Maureen will have the requirements organized and we can compare what is in there

Feedback from Survey

• Brian -- Maureen will have the requirements organized and we can compare what the participants comments with the survey results

Survey RespondentsPosition Title

Primary Focus

# of respondents

I Need a Career Path to…

Answer %

Understand what is required of someone to be successful in an EA career

19.6

Determine the skills and experience needed to enter into the EA career space

13.9

Manage my career 13.9To provide educational products that meets the needs of EAs 10.6To make better hiring decisions 8.5To establish an EA organization 8.3

Do you think a FEAPO published CareerPath Stakeholder guide would be beneficial?

“Stakeholder guides and valuepropositions (including KPIs) will beInvaluable.”

“A set of generic questions to supportcompetency based interviewing would be particularly useful”

Include

• “Leadership, influence, negotiation, creativity, and other so called "soft“ skills are much more important to success than are technical skills. These should be identified and appropriately recognized.

• EAs also need to know what's next. EA should not be the end of the line for their Career.”

Don’t

• “It would be a mistake to include anything related to EA Org Models. Distracts from the deliverable and targets different audience”

• Too much detail in the position descriptions such as specific methodology, certification

• Too IT focused

Straw Man – Career Framework

– Each Role can move horizontal or vertical as appropriate– Each Family will be linked to Professional Training and Development "Certifications"

Summary of Career Path, Families, and Roles Families: Paths:

Security Infrastructure Technical Integration Information/ Data Business General

Enterprise Architecture Family Roles

Chief Security

Architect Chief

Infrastructure Architect

Chief Technical/ Application

Architect

Chief Integration Architect

Chief Information/

Data Architect

Chief Business Architect

Chief Architect

Enterprise Security Architect

Enterprise Infrastructure

Architect

Enterprise Technical/ Application

Architect

Enterprise Integration Architect

Enterprise Information/

Data Architect

Enterprise Business Architect

Enterprise Architect

Solution Architecture Family Roles

Senior

Security Architect

Senior Infrastructure

Architect

Senior Technical/ Application

Architect

Senior Integration Architect

Senior Information/

Data Architect

Senior Business Architect

Lead or Solution Architect

Security Architect

Infrastructure Architect

Technical/ Application

Architect

Integration Architect

Information/ Data Architect

Business Architect

Design and Analyst Family Roles

Security Analyst

Network and Comm. Architecture Operating and Platform Architecture

Technical/ Application

Analyst

Integration Analyst

Data Modeler Business Analyst

Process

Architecture

Network Design

Software Design/

Developer

Data Analyst UI Designer

15 minutes

Position FamiliesA position family is a series of roles involving work of the same nature, but requiring different levels of skill and responsibility.

How We are Using Position Families

•To differentiate the practices within EA•To provide a complete picture of of the practices within EA•To provide user with flexibility when using the career path framework•To illustrate career development opportunities between job families

3 Position Families

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Design and Analyst

Architecture

The Enterprise architects family defines the strategy and vision and propose the terms of reference for delivery; they also provide governance, change and stakeholder management functions.

The Solution architect family describes the top-level structure and organization and identify all components needed to meet requirements and desired business outcomes.

The Designers and Analyst family captures the requirements and detailed design, describing each component sufficiently to allow for decision making on final construction.

Framework Categories

• Used to organize the EA career framework into primary functions within an organization

EA Position Scope Brian

Question

Would you change the position paths?Are there any missing?

Lunch 60 minutes

Brenda and Nat. Draft EA

Competency Model Structure• Some elements are already defined including position families and position paths

EA Competency Model

Comparison of EA roles• Compared the following FEAPO Docs:

– Enterprise Architecture Career Path Development– Enterprise Architecture Career Path– EA Career Path Glossary

• CEB:– The Architect’s Business Capabilities Handbook– Business Architecture– Scope and Dimensions– The Anatomy of a World-Class Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Group• Open2Study Video

Position Families:

FEAPO CEB Open2Study (follows TOGAF)

Enterprise Business Business

Solution Information Data

Design/ Analysis Systems Applications

Technology Technology

Sample Role Paths:FEAPO CEB Open2Study

(follows TOGAF)

Levels: Chief Architect (Discipline) Chief (Level 5 Maturity) Chief

Enterprise Architect (Discipline) Senior (Level 4 Maturity) Senior

Senior Architect (Discipline) Analyst I (Level 3 Maturity) Analyst

Analyst II (Level 2 Maturity)

Architect (Discipline) Analyst III (Level 1 Maturity)

Analyst (Discipline)

Disciplines: Security Application Application Architect

Infrastructure Service Infrastructure Architect

Technical Technical Application Designer

Integration Integration Solution Architect

Information/Data Information Information Architect

Business Business Business Architect

General Enterprise Architect

Business Analyst

Data Architect

System Administrator

Head of Architecture (Manager)

CompetenciesFEAPO CEB Open2Study

(follows TOGAF)Being Influential Visual Thinking: The ability to clarify, synthesize, and analyze

information pictorially to effectively depict logical linkages between interrelated elements in an environment or system

Leadership

Dealing with Complexity Roadmapping and Planning: The ability to develop and manage the process of migrating from the current to the target state architecture.

Conflict Resolution

Managing Staff & Others Business Architecture: The application of architecture principles and techniques to the design of business operations, including business capabilities and the business processes, people, technology, and information that enable them.

Intuition

Managing Change Influencing: The ability to persuade others through instruction, dialogue, argumentation, and inspiration rather than through direct authority.

Domain Knowledge

Working w/Autonomy Communication: The ability to convey complex issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in a manner that is easily understood and actionable.

Technical Knowledge

Corporate Governance of IT

Collaboration: The act by which people come together, regardless of location, to create new value for the organization by working together.

Process Knowledge

Emerging Technology Leadership: The ability to set strategy, make decisions, and serve as a champion of initiatives that others are willing to support.

Enterprise Architecture Creativity: The ability to bring new and innovative ideas to your work.Information Management Coaching and Mentoring: The informal development of employees to

create an environment that drives toward high levels of engagement, personal performance, and outcome attainment.

Competencies cont…FEAPO CEB Open2Study

(follows TOGAF)

Innovation Adaptability: The ability to adjust to new, different, or changing circumstances while still ensuring that the overall objective is achieved.

Methods & Tools Big-Picture Thinking: The ability to understand the enterprise-wide implications of day-to-day decisions.

Research Parallel Processing: Ability to take on a wide portfolio of responsibilities while ensuring that each task is accomplished effectively.

Solution Architecture

Strategic Planning: The periodic resetting of mid- to long-term direction and priorities through the alignment of key initiatives and resources to organizational goals and objectives.

Technical Specialism

Information Synthesis: The ability to take disconnected ideas, concepts, and perspectives from a variety of sources and assemble an articulate, relevant, and precise point of view.

Business Analysis New Technology Innovation: The ability to assess and introduce for deployment new technology solutions to drive efficiencies or enable business capabilities.

Business Modeling

Service Architecture: The organization and design of the resources (human, technical and otherwise) that are required for the operation of an IT or business service.

Information Architecture: The definition, design, and delivery of an architecture that improves the attainability and usefulness of information in the enterprise, such that knowledge workers can locate, transform, analyze, and communicate information to support effective decision-making.Integration Architecture: The design of the methods and protocols for communication and interoperability between disparate information systems.Application Architecture: The design of the applications that are used across the enterprise such that the overall application portfolio operates in a simplified, scalable, and reliable manner.

Technical Architecture: The design and integration of the common foundational technologies that are used across the enterprise, including hardware, middleware, networks, security, and system management software.

4 Competency Categories

20 Sample competenciesBased on CEB; DoD; FEAPO data

4 Competency Categories

Competency List / Dictionary

• Competency categorization– Really just for structure and organization

• Competency specification:<learning outcome> “-” <skill reference code> I <guidance reference> “=

“<required proficiency level> Similar to BTM document ex. SFIA-PRMG=3

• Proficiency level could use Bloom or come up with our own or even map to something like SFIA

Next Steps

• Expand on competencies in each category• Ensure no gaps exist in competency areas• Map categories to career families to validate

consistency• Ensure competencies cover all job descriptions

(roles)

Workshop- Profile for Strategic EA PositionObjective: To create an initial profile for a strategic level EA Position

Approach: •Three separate groups •Each group will answers a series of questions and post their answers on flip chart•All groups will come together to discuss the outcomes of the working sessions

Workshop- Position Profiles for Career Categories Technology, Data, and Business Architecture

Objective: To create an initial profile for a each category

Approach: There will be three separate groups engaged in answering a series of questions which will be posted on flip-chartsEach group will present their findings to the rest of the delegates. Common themes will be recorded and discussed.

Abstraction and Scope for Arch Disciplines

DescriptionEnterprise Architecture Management process

Define the meta model for EAM and first version of target reference architecture

0

Examine, need to update architecture based on requirements

2

Define/update transformation plan based on the results of an architecture update

3

Assure implementation of target architecture through project reviews

4

Assure adaptation of the target architecture to technology trends

5

Define services EAM offers to the project and enterprise level and the activities to handle them

6

Identify, formulate, and validate architectural requirements. Assures completeness, consistency and unambiguousness

1

Architecture request management

Architecture transformationplan-ning

3

Archi-tecture design/update

2

1EAM initiation0

Architecturecontrolling

4

Tech-nologymanage-ment

5

6

Architecture requirements engineering

ArchitectureRequirement

sManagement

Enterprise Architecture Management is a continuous planning and controlling process

e Planning architectural-relevant projects must be aligned with the overall IT project portfolio management

Processes synchronized with EAM

f Business strategy provides architecture requirements and needs to be updated regarding fulfillment

Processes reviewed/guided by EAM

c IT project approval must incorporate architecture compliance checks

d Architecture reviews of application and infrastructure projects are conducted at defined milestones regarding progress and architectural compliance

Processes supported by EAM

a Changes of strategy might cause adjustments of EAM

b Requests from IT delivery for architectural solutions can cause project driven adjustment of architecture target

Project approval

Corporate IT

Infrastructure management

PlanTrans-form

TestGo live

Application development

Plan Build TestGo live

IT project portfolio managementIT strategy/governance/organization

Strategic planning

Business strategy

Enterprise architecture management

Project portfoliomanagement

Business requirements management

a

b d b d

e

f

c

Architecture request management

Archi-tecture transfor-mationplanning

Architec-ture design/update

Architecture requirements engineering

EAM initiation

Architecturecontrolling

Tech-nologymanage-ment

EA has well-defined interfaces with other Corporate IT processes

Each Group Presents Findings 15 minutes each

ScribesWill document

Commonalities &Differences

What we Accomplished Today!

Agenda Day 2 - MarkTopic Presenter Time Mins.

• Introduction to Day 2 Mark 5

• Workshop Facilitators:David LeeSandra HoskinsAndy Chen

45

• Workshop Group Presentations Facilitator David Lee 45

• Recap and Closing Mark Lane 5

Workshop- Position Profiles for Career Categories Technology, Data, and Business Architecture

Objective: To create an initial profile for a each category

Approach: There will be three separate groups engaged in answering a series of questions which will be posted on flip-chartsEach group will present their findings to the rest of the delegates. Common themes will be recorded and discussed.

Summary & Next Steps

• Mark