governance structure
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The introduction
Governance is the mechanism for EA effort to make transtion from stovepiep culture to interoperable culture. Governance enable learning experience of the others, establish standards, reuse, consolidation as shown in following agility architecture model.
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Abstract of Governance and Compliance
Most of people perceive governance and compliance from the aspect of command and control to carry out the central planned design. LEA suggest the compliance is the effort to earn agility and simplicity rather than a sence of obedient.EA enable agility, interoperability and simplicity via reuse and and consolidation by standardization and compliance to standards as shown in the following figure.
A major effort in EA is to minimize the burden of compliance review. Although Agility, interoperability and simplicity is earned via compliance to EA standards, it is critical for EA to stream line the compliance review process, provide compliance process training, tailor the compliance processes and leverage automation technology to expedite compliance review. ^ TOP
Compliance with standards and share resources
Compliance review does not only review the standards but also the use of share resources to remove redundant effort.^ TOP
Why governance?
Governance to enable agility and simplicity via reuse and consolidationThe LEA Practice Guide suggests that EA governance is not a burden as perceived by the community. Light Enterprise Architecture, to overcome the complexity of traditional EA, is the effort to enable agile and simple approach to take advantage of technology evolution. It build up the enterprise common foundation and building blocks via establish architecture standards to reuse and consolidation to share.
Compliance to earn agility and simplicity via reuse and consolidation
Although it appears to be a limitation that the community have to follow standards and subject to consolidation, but consider the benefit of reuse and consolidation, governance and compliance is not really a burden, it is a remedy to overcome the challenge of stovepipe system.
The level of agility and simplicity increase with the level of common foundation and reuse as shown in the following figure. With the build up of common foundation and building blocks, business owner can optimize their local architecture solution based on their business without special resources and in time of use.
EA become operational via governace and compliance
Governance and compliance are the mechanism to establish the common foundation and building blocks. The continue operation of governance and compliance serve as the engine to build up the common foundation and building blocks. An enterprise must optimize their governance structure and processes properly to establish common foundation and building blocks efficiently in avoidance of unnecessary burden to the stakeholders.
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