Enterprise Architecture Principles

What is?

• General rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended

• Inform and support the way in which an organization sets about fulfilling its mission.

Why?

 Govern the project direction and implementation approach, that guarantees the success of the project to meet the expected architecture.

Characteristics

• Reflects a level of consensus among the various elements of the enterprise and forms the basis for making future IT decisions.

• Each Principle should be clearly related back to the business objectives and key architecture drivers.

Components

• Name

• Statement

• Rationale

Qualities

• Understandable

• Robust

• Complete

• Consistent

• Stable

1. Define principles per each area (Business, data, application, technology)

2. Create policies

3. Create process

4. Conduct training

5. Auditing

6. Continious improvement