The Biggest Challenge in creating an EA Practice

There are five fundamental obstacles that must be addressed when developing an EA practice:

• Time to Value - ensure your practice can show tangible value in first three month


• Common Vision - ensure practitioners have common vocabulary, processes, governance and goals oriented performance scorecard


• Respect for other Discipline - Demonstrate inclusion and integration of all other discipline within the IT Organization


• Responsibility - Architects must accept RESPONSIBILITY for quality of the content and business outcome


• Value Delivery - build lasting relationships through Expertise Based Leadership

Enterprise Architecture is more than modeling, it is about defining, building and exploiting Enterprise Capabilities

About QRS Toolkit

QRS Toolkit, based on TOGAF and CMMI maturity model, provides a framework, architecture and implementation plan to create an ITO that is agile, flexible, cost effective and most importantly can help manage the technology risks. The toolkit addresses the following major aspects of an EA Practice :

• Defines the Characteristics of a Customer Centric IT Organization


• Defines processes to build Business Capabilities ( from Idea to Value Realization/Asset Retirement)


• IT Organization Capabilities (Simplified IT)


• Standardized Business Processes


• Enterprise Architecture Practice Capabilities


• EA Practice Implementation and Maturization Strategy


• EA Repository and Software tools to Manage EA Practice


• EA Repository and CMDB integration