1. Roger Sessions ObjectWatch An Introduction to the Major EA Methodologies

2. Presentation Overview Introductions Why EA? Overview of Methodologies Zachman TOGAF FEA Agile EA VPEC-T SIP Putting Them Together Summary

3. AEA Essentials Definitive Reference: agileea.wikidot.com mostly by Charles Edwards Main Proponent: Charles Edwards Focal Point: Agile TOGAF Introduced: 2007 AE Goal: management and definition of the Architecture of the Enterprise (Business or set of businesses) that includes everything from the Business Strategy, down into the Business Operation Architecture (static and dynamic) for the purposes of optimizing the enterprise; the Information systems (made up of Applications, Services and Data) and the Technology and Infrastructure that this runs on. It also includes aspects such as Security, Data, People and Performance.

4. AEA Ideas Take the EA one month at a time (called “Sprints”. Keep list of hot work items. Daily status meetings (“Scrum Meetings”) to evaluate progress. EA needs the agility that Scrum (agile development) provides. Focus on time-boxing the AE process.

5. AEA Wrap-up The goal of making TOGAF agile is good. It is still not clear how AEA will achieve this. Think of AEA as an evolving set of Best Practices for making TOGAF usable. AEA is still in Beta