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Enterprise Architecture enables Agile teams to go faster

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How does enterprise architecture enable Agile? How can companies ensure their projects are on-strategy? Should Agile teams have a resident enterprise architect? After sharing the discussion on the evolution and perceived value of enterprise architecture and the ability for EA to align Business and Technology, let’s explore what our thought leaders, President of JV Strategic Solutions John Varricchio, KPMG Enterprise Architecture Leader Roland Woldt, and MEGA’s own Chief Strategy Officer Dan Hebda, discussed around how enterprise architecture can fuel business agility during a webinar entitled, “Modernizing the Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Digital Disruption.” Read more here: …

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Industry experts discuss examples of how Enterprise Architecture aligns Business & Technology

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How does enterprise architecture engage with the business today? How can EA help the Business and IT align and work closer together? After sharing the discussion on the evolution and perceived value of enterprise architecture, let’s explore what our thought leaders, President of JV Strategic Solutions John Varricchio, KPMG Enterprise Architecture Leader Roland Woldt, and MEGA’s own Chief Strategy Officer Dan Hebda, discussed around how enterprise architecture can help align business and technology during a webinar entitled, “Modernizing the Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Age of Digital Disruption.” Read more here: https://community.mega.com/t5/Blog-EN-Business-IT/Industry-experts-discuss-examples-of-how-Enterprise-Architecture/ba-p/20999

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The value of Enterprise Architecture in today’s age of digital disruption

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What is the state of enterprise architecture today? How has enterprise architecture evolved and what is the perceived value of the practice? MEGA brought together thought leaders to discuss the evolving role of enterprise architecture in a webinar entitled, “Modernizing the Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Digital Age.” President of JV Strategic Solutions John Varricchio, KPMG Enterprise Architecture Leader Roland Woldt, and MEGA’s own Chief Strategy Officer Dan Hebda, discussed several topics. Below is brief recap of the discussion around the state of enterprise architecture today and its perceived value. Read more here: https://community.mega.com/t5/Blog-EN-Business-IT/The-value-of-Enterprise-Architecture-in-today-s-age-of-digital/ba-p/20996

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[Webcast] Modernizing the Role of EA in the Age of Digital Disruption

In summer 2019 I participated in a panel discussion hosted by Mega: “Listen in as EA-industry veteran John Varricchio, MEGA Chief Strategy Officer Dan Hebda, and KPMG Enterprise Architecture practice leader Roland Woldt, discuss strategies and real-world examples of how EA can become a digital advisor to the business.”

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Enterprise Architecture: The Scarce Skillset in Big Demand

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Three years ago, demand for enterprise architects — those who focus on building a holistic view of an organization’s strategy, processes, information, and IT assets in order to support the most efficient and secure IT environment — was declining. Some were whispering that the days of the architects were over. But this unique skillset has recently staged a major comeback: According to the Harvey Nash/KPMG 2017 CIO Survey, enterprise architecture (EA) has become the fastest-growing, in-demand skillset in technology, up 26% from last year’s report. In fact, the second and third-fastest growing in-demand skillsets — Business Process Management and Data …

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BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 2

I collaborated with Ivo Velitchkov on a two post series about BPMN and EPC that can be found here: https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=402. This is part 2. The previous part focused on areas such as expressive power, readability and enterprise architecture. This one, written jointly with Roland Woldt, dwells on a few more aspects such as semi-structured processes, exceptions, loops and data handling. Some of them could be sorted well under the ‘expressive power’ heading but as stated in the previous post, the intention is just to put some structure to the ideas and experience shared, not to give a list of criteria. If in spite …

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BPMN sub-classes

The BPMN spec contains way over 100 different object types that can be used in the different model types. There are special rules about how to use them, which I will explain in later lessons. This article contains an overview of the available objects. BPMN Objects Overview Depending on your use case and point of view, the amount of available object in the different BPMN models might be a blessing or a course. Most likely business people will shy away from the notation and might see it as “too complex”, while technical folks who want to implement a workflow system …

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BPMN vs. EPC revisited, part 1

I collaborated with Ivo Velitchkov on a two post series about BPMN and EPC that can be found here: https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=361 There were several posts and discussions on the topic of “BPMN vs. EPC”. One of them is quite comprehensive and its discussion thread very interesting. But there are still many important points untouched and I’d like to share some of them for those facing a choice of business process notation. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t other options. But they have quite lower utilisation potential and/or address different needs. Certainly if UML is used, a combination of activity, statechart and sequence diagrams …

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Learning BPMN 2 – Which models are available in BPMN?

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BPMN is not one specific model type -like an Event-driven Process Chain- but is a collection of multiple model types that are connected to each other. This article will show the available model types in the BPMN 2.0 specification and how these are supported in ARIS (as of ARIS 7.1 SR9).   BPMN model types The BPMN 2.0 specification contains some changes compared to the 1.x specification (shown in the graphic below): the BPMN process diagram was divided into two model types – the BPMN Process and the BPMN Collaboration Diagrams the new Choreography Diagram, and the new Conversation Diagram. BPMN Process and Collaboration Diagrams The split of …

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Learning BPMN 1 – What is BPMN?

BPMN history

BPMN, which stands for Business Process Model and Notation, is a standard for creating process models and was created in the first decade of the 21st century by a consortium of industry-leading companies such as SAP, Oracle or IDS Scheer. The standard is currently managed by the Object Management Group (OMG) and the latest version of the standard (2.0) is in its final review phases to be published later this year/in early 2011. When you follow the discussion in the blogosphere about this standard nowadays, it seems that BPMN is the cure for all diseases that the other competing standards seem to have, …

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