Enterprise Architecture Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Enterprise Architecture Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Enterprise Architecture related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Enterprise Architecture specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Enterprise Architecture Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Enterprise Architecture improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:


1. Can the fiscal service provide the security, testing, change control, Enterprise Architecture, data retention, data protection, governance, and other requirements that will need to be complied with?
   
   

2. How much of an impact, if any, has the gap between enterprise architecture resources requested and resources finally approved had on your organization/departments enterprise architecture program?
   
   

3. Do you maintain a current view of all your software assets, including internal code, third party code, open source, automation scripts, Infrastructure as Code, and other software assets?
   
   

4. How can business and IT organizations handle the rising number of technological and architectural decisions as well as deliver new functionalities in time to meet business expectations?
   
   

5. Does your organization/department have a written and approved policy that requires that IT investments comply with the enterprise architecture?
   
   

6. Does your organization/department plan to develop metrics for enterprise architecture progress, quality, return on investment, and compliance?
   
   

7. Does your organization/department have a written and approved policy for the development, maintenance, and use of enterprise architecture?
   
   

8. Will it encompass the entire portfolio, a product line or portion thereof, a specific product, value stream or be more systems oriented?
   
   

9. Which levels of RAID can reconstruct data lost in failed drives from the backup data spread across the remaining drives in the array?
   
   

10. What feature avoids the problem of deciding how each separate type of data is integrated and synchronized into a working whole?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Enterprise Architecture book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Enterprise Architecture self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Enterprise Architecture areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Enterprise Architecture Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Enterprise Architecture projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Enterprise Architecture Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Enterprise Architecture project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: What are best practices in use for the performance measurement system?
   
   

2. Risk Register: People risk -are people with appropriate skills available to help complete the Enterprise Architecture project?
   
   

3. Procurement Management Plan: Is there an on-going process in place to monitor Enterprise Architecture project risks?
   
   

4. Procurement Management Plan: Do Enterprise Architecture project teams & team members report on status / activities / progress?
   
   

5. Activity Duration Estimates: (Cpi), and schedule performance index (spi) for the Enterprise Architecture project?
   
   

6. Quality Audit: Does everyone know what they are supposed to be doing, how and why?
   
   

7. Executing Process Group: Do the products created live up to the necessary quality?
   
   

8. Risk Register: What is the probability and impact of the risk occurring?
   
   

9. Requirements Documentation: How do you know when a Requirement is accurate enough?
   
   

10. Change Log: Does the suggested change request represent a desired enhancement to the products functionality?


 
Step-by-step and complete Enterprise Architecture Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Enterprise Architecture project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Enterprise Architecture project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Enterprise Architecture project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Enterprise Architecture project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Enterprise Architecture project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Enterprise Architecture project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Enterprise Architecture project with this in-depth Enterprise Architecture Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Enterprise Architecture projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Enterprise Architecture and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Enterprise Architecture investments work better.

This Enterprise Architecture All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.