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- Enterprise Architecture
- Software Engineering
- Digital Transformation
Strategic advisory that gets things done
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- Enterprise Architecture
- Software Engineering
- Digital Transformation
- Architecture Strategy
- A comprehensive enterprise architecture that integrates the strategic, business, and technology planning process into holistic views of the entire enterprise.
- Architecture governance processes that facilitate portfolio decisions and long-term IT-Business alignment strategies.
- Architecture roadmaps, integrating all business units, their capabilities, and their systems required to meet business goals, present and future.
- Technology roadmaps, and its supporting architecture assets, in current and future state, always available to facilitate executive and financial decision making.
- Architecture Assets: Business capabilities and Applications portfolio at each business unit, Infrastructure landscape supporting the Applications portfolio, Data strategy and governance, Platform roadmaps, Integration standards, Enterprise data taxonomy, etc.
- Standards of practice for EA: EA processes, EA Communications, EA Business Liaison (BRM), EA Principles, EA Repository, EA Artifacts, EA Policies.
- Expert Guidance
- A strategic "big picture" driven approach to software engineering, including standard selection criteria for business requirements, user stories, technical designs, and stack selection (global consistency/reuse/repeteability).
- A platform-centric approach to software engineering processes and tools that increases agility, automation, repeatability, collaboration, change, and end-to-end traceability.
- Reusable design standards by (pre-built) platform, and scalability requirements, architecture constrains, API integrations (to redundant gateways), cloud-native approaches, 12 factors (weighted), and loosely coupled designs (standard microservices interfaces).
- Continuous integration (CI): So changes are integrated frequently and development teams can add new features with greater confidence.
- Continuous delivery (CD): So features are always ready to be deployed, thus reducing risk when making changes.
- DevOps: Best practices and toolchains to speed up the software development lifecycle and increase collaboration.
- Digital Enablement
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Organizing and prioritizing the strategic change initiatives that will future-proof the enterprise:
Re-engineering of major business processes, retirement of obsolete applications and systems (and manual/excel processes), adoption of modern/secure SaaS alternatives, etc. - Governance-ready: Business capabilities-driven technology blueprint, consolidated roadmaps that align technology decisions with overarching business objectives, per business unit, at the corporate/group level, and present vs. future.
- Silos, bottlenecks, and redundancies: Pre-governance process of elimination of areas that won’t contribute to the transformation goals.
- Technology selection criteria: For the alignment of solutions, vendors, and implementation partners that share the organizational values and sense of urgency (to change).
- All hands on deck: Ownership mapping, per business process, application, data, and associated roles and responsibilities over the owned asset, across each phase of the transformation (alignment w/PMO).