OMB – FEA Segment Architecture Based Planning Fraught with Empirical Dilemma (Cognitive Dissonance) « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation November 12, 2008 by Srinidhi Boray The new Federal Segment Architecture Methodology Link below. The New Guidance is still based on Federal Reference Models and the emphasis on Service Reference Model continues to exists. Reference: FEA Practice Guidance (This is the old link prior to 2009) OLDER : Segment Architecture based Planning By Srinidhi Boray Following inaccuracies in the OMB’s Reference Model and Segment Architecture Methodology – allows for inadvertently promoting bureaucracy in the agency’s OCIO rather than reducing it. 1. To understand “reuse plan” with regards to agencies redundancy reduction planning it is worth establishing clarity between “empirical” and “analysis,” with regards to “common services” a term defined within the Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model framework that was established by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). o Empirical - o Analysis – § 1: separation of a whole into its component parts 2. 3. Like this: Like Loading...
DC Meltdown & Role of EA in establishing ‘Accountability’ in Federal IT Spending « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation September 25, 2008 by Srinidhi Boray By Srinidhi Boray As the Wall Street melts down, so does the DC. One quick survey and it will yield how lacking many big institutions are. Catering to the IT market are bandied many large IT vendors. In the federal sector, The Clinger Cohen Act was established to bring in greater accountability in addition to several other things. Link to Campbell Brown’s article on CNN “”What’s amazing to me is that the administration seems a little surprised that Congress and the American people are not marching in lockstep with them on this and not fully appreciating the urgency. Well here’s why, in one word: accountability.”””” Going forward, that now Fannie and Freddie have directly come under Federal administration, hopefully accountability creating systematic process will be established based on the Federal Enterprise Architecture guidance, should they survive as behemoths. Like this:
Enterprise Architecture – Economic Model – System Dynamics « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation August 22, 2007 by Srinidhi Boray By Srinidhi Boray Enterprise Architecture Assists in Understanding Enterprise’s Unique Economic Model Remember : With Increasing Complexity Degree of Freedom Reduces When System Strives for Extreme Commoditization – Individual Should Strive for Specialized & Unique Competencies On 26th Feb’ 2009 CNN Reports – Reason for GM failure blamed on steep Fixed Cost. However one may attempt to distort reality, in the end one cannot play with numbers, as numbers are mere numbers. Gartner has begun to endorse the view proposed in this article. As an anti-thesis – this is also said of Maths by Albert Einstein “as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.“ This is where Enterprise Architecture improves upon on by providing better abstraction and logical reasoning by introducing structure derived from ontology that is intrinsically ‘architecture’. Like this: Like Loading...
Have Fed Agencies abandoned creating “Enterprise Transition Plan” ? ETP is challenging for the OCIO « Ingine – Enterprise Transformation April 12, 2010 by Srinidhi Boray Enterprise Transition Plan – Line Of Sight – Operating Model Ref:- FEAC Institute, FEA Guidance, INGINE INC, Srinidhi Boray[/ Conceiving a coherent modernization plan and executing them has always been a challenge for OCIO. Reading the Enterprise Transition Strategy following should be evident: Organization’s maturity and competence to perform and embrace the future capabilities Organization’s present constraints in delivering the needed “capabilities” The profile of the architecture cross sections (segments) needing modernization to develop the intended “portfolio of capabilities” Investment Profile – planned to executive segment modernization The governance structure and mechanism that engages the different functional capabilities, such as leadership – management, lines of businesses, enterprise architecture, capital planning and program management. More discussion in below link in creating Enterprise Transition Strategy Like this: Like Loading...