Enterprise Architecture Quality Attributes: A Case Study

Niemi, Eetu; Pekkola, Samuli

doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.201

Cited by 23 publications

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“…They both find that knowledge management is affected by the choice of EAM approach and that most approaches show weaknesses in the distribution and preservation of knowledge. The latter goes well in line with the finding of Niemi et al [8] that the EA quality attribute availability has not received any significant attention so far.…”

Section: Related Worksupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Concerning the EA quality attribute granularity an interviewed architect stated that formalized information in the model properties is not quite enough. He requested more prose-style text to describe what the model is all about [8]. We expect the introduction of a Wiki to simplify the integration of such additional explanatory documents to the central model.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The practitioners interviews led by Niemi et al [8] give a few other hints where introducing a Wiki might improve the situation. Concerning the EA quality attribute granularity an interviewed architect stated that formalized information in the model properties is not quite enough.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Niemi et al [8] conceptualize in total ten quality attributes for judging the quality of an EA approach and its tool support. Six of them are concerned with EA products and four on EA services.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We argue that a better interlinking of these artifacts with the constructed models will increase the availability of EA products and improve the utilization of tools for EA management. In a recent study, Niemi et al [8] identified ten EA quality attributes from a Finnish public sector organization. One of their striking findings was the lack of research on the quality attribute availability of EA products.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Analyzing Task and Technology Characteristics for Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Support

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2013 17th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops

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Adequate tool support for Enterprise Architecture (EA) and its respective management function is crucial for the success of the discipline in practice. However, currently available tools used in organizations focus on structured information neglecting the collaborative effort required for developing and planning the EA. As a result, utilization of these tools by stakeholders is often not sufficient and availability of EA products in the organization is limited. We investigate the integration of existing EA tools and Enterprise Wikis to tackle these challenges. We will describe how EA initiatives can benefit from the use and integration of an Enterprise Wiki with an existing EA tool. Main goal of our research is to increase the utilization of EA tools and enhance the availability of EA products by incorporating unstructured information content in the tools. For this purpose we analyze task characteristics that we revealed from the processes and task descriptions of the EA department of a German insurance organization and align them with technology characteristics of EA tools and Enterprise Wikis. We empirically evaluated these technology characteristics using an online survey with results from 105 organizations in previous work. We apply the technology-to-performance chain model to derive the fit between task and technology characteristics for EA management (EAM) tool support in order to evaluate our hypotheses.

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Section: Related Worksupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Analyzing Task and Technology Characteristics for Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Support

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A Continuous Delivery Pipeline for EA Model Evolution

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Steffens

Hansen

et al. 2019

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

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The pace of changing structures and complexity within enterprise architecture (EA) models is expected to increase. This will challenge existing maintenance processes of EA models. To tackle this challenge, we propose to adapt the well-known concept of continuous delivery (CD) from the agile software development domain. We propose to automate the necessary steps to ensure EA model quality by applying multiple validation and analysis steps. Therefore, this results shorter feedback loops and helps to uncover possible conflict as early as possible.

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