Event Timetable

Welcome and Introduction to The Open Group

Chris Parnell  - Director, Membership and Services, The Open Group (presentation in English)

Business Development by Enterprise Architecture

Lars Lundgren - Manager Biner (presentation in English)

Improving drilling operations efficiency in the Oil & Gas Industry using enterprise architecture

Tore Bjerke, Manager eConcept Technology Platform, Aker Solutions (presentation in Norwegian)

• Short presentation of solution and Aker Solutions
• Historical perspective on the overall IT architecture
• Why have we chosen an enterprise architecture solution?
• What it takes to succeed in an Enterprise Architecture
• What roles and focus areas is required, both in line and in IT
  
  
   

How to use architectural blueprints to accelerate and implement change programs

Eirik Rasmussen, Director PwC (presentation in English)

Example from a consulting practice how to develop and use architectural blueprints tailored for energy and oil and gas engagements. The presentation includes real examples on blueprints, how to develop blueprints, how to use them in projects and the "step by step" client engagement methodology.

List 2 or 3 key takeaways:

1. Project execution using blueprints (examples and templates)
2. Project execution methodology (the way to use blueprints)
3. Link from corporate requirements (e.g. strategy and policies) to execution supported by blueprints

Eirik Rasmussen has more than 20 years of national and international management and consulting experience, with a special focus on the Oil & Gas industry.

He has engaged as a subject matter expert for several Middle East and Pan European Exploration energy companies.  Based on the experience from engagements he has developed a standardized PwC architectural framework. The framework consists of several standard business models, templates and blueprints used for operational improvements. The framework is currently in use at several international E&P and Energy companies.

A Secure Digital Mail Service - a common architecture for the public sector in Norway

Bjorn Holstad - Head of architecture section, Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi)
(presentation in Norwegian)

Difi has started work to establish a common solution where residents can get digital record in the digital mailbox. The architecture is developed based on TOGAF and Archimate, architecture must see common solutions in the public sector context. The address says something about the particular challenges faced in an architectural work where the stakeholders are many and have very different interests and often with great force. Furthermore addressed what happens when it all takes place in a political context and where architecture choices are policy. The lecture explains how Difi have attacked the work, the challenges we faced and how we have developed frameworks to achieve this.


Key takeaways

1. Experience and lessons for staffing, expertise and work for an architecture team in a major development program.
2. How to communicate with diverse stakeholders that affect architecture working implementation, decisions and activities - and how well TOGAF methodology and framework can be adapted to this.

Bjørn Holstad is senior adviser at Difi and has been project manager for the  management, organization, financing and development of national common components, and project manager for developing a single secure digital mailbox and a common architecture.

He was previously director of correctional IT services,  IT Director of the Loan Fund, IT Manager at CAA and Operations Manager IT in Finance.

Bjørn majored in Information Systems at the University of Buskerud
 

What you need to know about change management that you did not know

Ingvar Elmér - Senior Enterprise Architect, Biner Consulting
(presentation in English)

Larger more complex changes that affect several stakeholders within an organization must often be handled in a program of several coordinated projects and line activities. The ultimate goal of such a change will generally need to be revised during the lifetime of the program.

The accepted methods available to control program generally lack clear guidelines on what must be done to plan the change process, dividing it into the project, manage dependencies between projects, and establish phases with clear target images.

ADM (Architecture Development Method), which is part of TOGAF, is perfect to use to use in planning and management of programs, along with other methods of program management.

List 2 or 3 key takeaways:

1. Program management is a concern for the entire management team
2. Complex changes requires an agile and flexible way of working
3. Effective change management is one of the most important strategic issues for almost every business and organization today

Using Business Architecture to Strategically Govern the IT Portfolio

Merete Flod Storli - Head of architecture and development of services, Government Administration Services (G.A.S.)
(presentation in Norwegian)

DSS has already made several very interesting strategic decisions in relation to establishing an enterprise architecture function for the strategic management of their IT portfolio. Based on this decision, DSS has been through reorganization and is now actively working with both established architecture governance according to TOGAF and implement procedures and tools to actively pursue activities architecture and ensure an integrated approach across the business, information, systems and technology . This is an ongoing effort that will continue for a while and will include more and more convenient exercise of the enterprise architecture discipline based on the TOGAF framework. We believe that DSS their experience will be very exciting for other businesses to hear about

Key takeaways

1. Experiences related to how the organization needs to change to allow for strategic thinking related to digital services.
2. Hands on experience with the introduction of TOGAF in business

Merete is a graduate of NTNU and has had a career within the public sector.  She has worked with IT within Government and Regional Affairs before she started in DSS where she has led the unit for operation of standard platform, worked for ITIL and now works as head of architecture and development.

 

The Future of EA in the Enterprise

 Robert Weisman - CEO of Build The Vision, major contributor to TOGAF 9 and next version of TOGAF
(presentation in English)

 Decision Quality and Strategic Agility are primary drivers for competitive advantage, efficiency and effective service delivery, all enabled by Enterprise Architecture (EA). The question is whether the existing methodologies are fit for purpose, especially laying the foundation for interoperability (the ability to share quality information and services) in national and international organizations in both private and public sectors. This presentation defines the concepts and how EA can address the needs in the emerging global business and technology environments.

Robert Weisman, MSc, PEng, PMP, CD has 37 years of experience (25 years public and 12 years private sectors) and has worked as a business subject matter expert, portfolio manager and enterprise architect in leading innovation initiatives nationally and internationally in domains such as crisis management, defence, health and modernizing service to citizens. He is a long-time member of the Open Group, was a major contributor to TOGAF 9, is working on the next version of TOGAF (as well as Cloud and Big Data) and has used and combined all major global EA frameworks in his endeavours.

Experience from working with enterprise architecture in the education sector

Anna Borg – Senior adviser, The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education
(presentation in Norwegian)

•  Who are we (Centre for ICT in Education)
• Landscape for enterprise architecture efforts for the education sector (nursery, primary and secondary school)
• How we work with business architecture
• The areas of architecture work we prioritize and why

Key takeaways

1. Stakeholders - who helps to design architecture policy for education sector.
2. Why do you need to work with a sector-specific (education sector) architecture.
3. Which architecture areas are particularly important for ICT in schools and improving the quality of education

Enterprise Architecture improves interaction with the business

Monica K. Dahl – Enterprise Architect, Norwegian Public Roads Administration
(presentation in Norwegian)

By using EA we have improved our interaction with the business and the planning of new IT projects is now done with EA as one of the key criteria.

The NPRA has in the last three years reorganized the ICT department and is currently establishing both portfolio management and EA as part of the strategic IT governance.

The business architecture is being modeled in UML and the information ownership is being defined. The systems are both described AS IS and there are initiatives on-going to describe TO BE architectures for the different business processes.

Using a methodology with templates for describing the business and building an architecture repository has made it easier to interact with the business and to work together in the ICT department.

This presentation will tell what challenges we have had, and what we did to manage them.

Key takeaways

1. How to use EA to interact better with the business
2. What deliverables we have used
3. How we are building our architecture repository

Monika Dahl has a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University. She has worked in IT for over 20 years, first as a developer, then as a project manager and architect. Having worked in both the public and the private sectors, she now works in the Roads Administration as a business architect.





 

Implementation of the architecture principle # 4 Business continuity - a proposal for TOGAF model

Arild S. Birkelund, Bjorn A. Tveøy - IT Architects Atea AS
(presentation in Norwegian)

Atea IT Architects have completed a number of customer projects in IT Business Continuity where vision has been summarized in:

• Interrupt (MNT) and compression (MDT) for IT in incidents in line with business management informed decision
• Optimum economics and resource use - prevention and implementation of the disruption solution
• Optimal risk reduction for events
• Hardware Solution works when it should

The implementation is based on best practices and the standard BS 2599:2006 which is now complemented by ISO 22301:2012 Business continuity management. In addition, we are ISO 27005:2011 Risk management as a basis for risk assessment. With the introduction of TOGAF as a tool in Atea, we have documented the work of Business Continuity as a TOGAF model.

The lecture will highlight best practices and associated TOGAF documentation.

Top photo: Arild Birelund
Bottom photo: Bjorn Tveøy

Architecture acceleration for business transformations

Mick Adams  - Chief Business architect for EMEIA and ex-chair of the Open Group architecture forum, Ernst and Young 
(presentation in English)

Business transformation is a tricky beast... it requires many people to be bought in to a singular vision, and it requires even more people to be aligned to an often multi-year execution program throughout which personal and organization priorities will change. As a firm with considerable business architecture and transformation experience, Ernst & Young deploys multi-discplinary teams of functional and technical experts and uses a number of approaches, anchored on TOGAF®, to address these issues. This is necessary to get a handle on the complexity inherent to today's business environment so that stakeholders are aligned and remain actively engaged, past investments in both processes and systems can be maximized, and transformation programs are set up for success and can be driven with sustained momentum.  

Audience:

Business executives in charge of transformations, business leaders looking to start transformation, strategy or planning professionals seeking new ways to improve estimate accuracy, transformation professionals looking for different ways to engage stakeholders, architects looking for different ways to use architecture.

List 2 or 3 key takeaways:

1. See how others are using this approach to engage a broad selection of stakeholders in super quick time
2. Learn how to use TOGAF for transformation planning
3. See what other companies are doing to combat transformation fatigue and staff attrition
4. Learn how to link architecture to solution alternatives, and alternatives to estimates