Short 3.2 + 3.3 + 3.4

Question 1

Influence factors on EAM

Answer 1

• Enterprise Context: New CIO/CEO, post-merger integration
• Organizational Context: type of IT organization/ upper-management support
• EAM Goals: increase coherency (Buss. & IT) & increase transparency
• EAM Concerns: detect consolidation potentials, map business apps to capabilities

Question 2

IT governance archetypes

Answer 2

• Business Monarch: Top Managers
• IT Morarch: IT Specialit
• Feudal: Each BU makes independent decisions
• IT Duopoly: IT people and 1 other group
• Anarchy: Isolated Individuals

Question 3

Approaches to change

Answer 3

• influencing
• planning
• learning
• motivation
• encouraging

Question 4

3 Most frequent EA challenges

Answer 4

1. Ad hoc EAM demands –> Agile EAM
2. Unclear business goals -> BCM
3. Hard to find experienced enterprise architects

Question 5

Benefits of capability-based planning

Answer 5

• Business Information –> sourcing
• Project –> implementation
• IT system –> supporting

Question 6

Identifying business capabilities

Answer 6

1. Identify capability candidates
2. Refine capabilities
3. Validate capabilities

Question 7

EAM pattern

Answer 7

• general, reusable solution to a common problem
• known usage and consequences
• takes an holistic stance at the enterprise level
• discovers working solutions

Question 8

the core concept of the EAM pattern catalog

Answer 8

the core concept of the EAM pattern catalog is that the EA team uses methods to address concerns of stakeholders using visualization

Question 9

EAM building blocks

Answer 9

• develop and describe
• communicate and enact
• analyse and evaluate