Guiding Principles: We defined a clear set of guiding principles, both at an enterprise and solution architecture level.
Architecture Development: We created templates for IT strategy, a roadmap and architecture blueprints across business, information, data, application and technology domains.
Architecture Processes: We defined and implemented a collaborative architecture process to increase collaboration among business, enterprise architecture and solution architecture teams with specific input and output criteria.
Governance: We defined and implemented governance processes for strategy, architecture and project development.
Organization and Skills: We defined architecture roles and integrated them into governance processes with clear responsibilities. The federation of roles with increased responsibilities by the various business units ensured a smoother transition from business goals to enterprise standards to solution architecture.
Metrics: We defined an architecture maturity model with a set of metrics to measure the architecture effectiveness.
Architecture Repository: We created a centralized architecture repository/wiki to store all architecture documents and reports with role-based access across the organization.
Training: We worked with the enterprise architecture team to conduct in-person and webinar-based training sessions across the organization to introduce and evangelize the new architecture process framework.
