Case Studies : Case Elisa, Case IBM, Case Osuuspankkikeskus (OPK)

The Role of Architecture Evaluations in ICT-companies

First published in the Proceedings of the 11th International HAAMAHA Conference, July 9-12, 2007, Poznan, Poland Architecture evaluation is a way to get answers to organisation’s information needs and problems relating to its business and ICT. Companies’ needs to move towards business value driven ICT-development and pressures to improve the costeffectiveness of ICT are some of the reasons for the increasing interest in the evaluations and measurements of architectures. However, the role and the meaning which architecture evaluation may have in companies is not clearly identified or defined. For example, needs and triggers for architectural evaluations do not seem to be identified in previo…

Quality and Quality Management in Architecture Work

Quality Management Activities for Enterprise Architecture

Presentation. Originally presented on 3.5.2006

Evaluation Practices in Architecture Work

Success and Failure Factors for Software Architecture

First published in the Proceedings of the 6th IBIMA Conference on Managing Information in the Digital Economy, June 19-21, 2006, Bonn, Germany This paper provides a view of the software architecture development and management process. It reviews the literature and practitioners’ experiences relating to the factors that cause success and failure for software architecture and classifies these factors into subgroups. This study demonstrates that the success of software architecture depends on multiple factors. Project management, organisational culture and communication, the skills of architects and architectural know-how, architecture methods and practices, the quality of system requirements …

AISA Research Project : Quality Management of Enterprise and Software Architectures

Presentation. Originally presented on 20.2.2008

Introduction

Evaluating Architecture Work

Evaluating Business-IT Alignment in the Enterprise Architecture Context

AISA Project report. Originally published 4.12.2007

Enterprise Architecture Risks - An Overview

AISA Project report. Originally published 6.3.2008

The Role of Architecture Evaluations in ICT-companies : [AISA Project report]

AISA Project report. Originally published 1.11.2006

Decision-Making and Risk Management in Architecture Work

Assessing Architectural Work - Criteria and Metrics for Evaluating Communication, Common Language & Commitment

Presentation. Originally presented on 7.2.2007

Potential Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Architecture

First published in the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2006 pp. 29-40. Republished with the kind permission of the Journal of Enterprise Architecture During the past few years, enterprise architectures (EAs) have garnered considerable attention from both practitioners and academics in the fields of information systems and business management. It is suggested that EA is an approach for controlling the complexity and constant changes in the business environment of an organization. Research has mainly focused on the development and modeling of EA, while quality aspects of EA have gained less attention. The aim of this study is to provide insight into the critical success fac…

Results

This section summarizes the results of the AISA project. For an overall discussion, see the Lessons Learned section. After a brief overview, the reports are listed, organized by type in separate tables.

Assessing Architectural Work - Criteria and Metrics for Evaluating Communication & Common Language and Comment

AISA Project report. Originally published 9.2.2007