Stadardization for interoperability
Standardization for interoperabilityTraditional EA is a central planned effort to address the entirety (The union set). The major challenge of the central planned architecture is to get buy-in from the many different stake holders. Traditional EA looks for the ultimate architecture design; the question is that the term of ultimate architecture is relatively speaking. For example: The best route for you to go to work is not necessary the best route for me because we live in different location. Enterprise is composed of many different independent business units. Heavy duty EA as the central planned architecture requires a lot effort with marginal return because one size does not fit all. The Light EA approach is to establish the common foundation and building blocks to enable agile and simple business need. For example: To provide the roads and transportation for me to go to work rather than define the route.
It is important to position EA as the service provider rather than the dictator. The value of EA is to provide the services (Light EA) rather than to govern (traditional EA). EA carries the notion of “Governance and Compliance" which most of the business owners considered as a burden rather then a value. Light EA is the effort to say that EA provide valuable services to enable agile , simple and cost efficient solution for business transformation rather than a burden and barrier to dictate what the business need. It is important to say that EA is a service provider effort rather than a governing effort. Even the effort of evaluation and standardization is a service to enable agile and simple solution, it is not a burden.
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