SBM 4303 - EA Repository Support for Implementation Methodology

This document provides a solution to an assignment focusing on Enterprise Architecture (EA) management. It discusses the four elements of an EA management program (Strategic Alignment, Standardized Policy, Decision Support, and Resource Oversight) and the six elements of an EA analysis and design method (Framework, EA components, Current architecture, Future architecture, EA Management Plan, and Threads). The solution also explains EA components and documentation artifacts within the EA3 Cube framework, differentiating between vertical and horizontal goals and listing components like products, services, and data. Finally, it elaborates on how an EA repository supports the implementation methodology by providing a database of information linked to various EA tools and program resources, aiding in support documentation creation. This assignment solution is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide array of study tools and resources for students.

SBM 4303 – Tutorial 1
1. Discuss about the four elements of an EA management program
and the six elements of an EA analysis and design method.
Answer: Management Program
• Strategic Alignment: Maximization of the efficiency as well as effectiveness of the resources.
This will in turn help in promoting the comparative capabilities of the enterprise.
• Standardized Policy: This policy would provide much more holistic and hierarchical view
regarding the resources that are currently in the organisation or may be used in future. EA
identifies the establishment of the entire policy for the operational requirements of the
organisation and also identifying the strategic requirements of the organisation. Standardized
policy determines the activities and resource alignments in a strategic way in Intel organisation
through the policy.
• Decision Support: This supports in the decision making of the IT resource support in the
organisation at the executive, management and stuff level of the entire organisation.
• Resource Oversight: Resource overseas approaches to standardise way of supporting in the
entire development and overseas the capabilities for optimising the supporting resources
within the organisation.
EA analysis and design method
• Framework: The framework of the design and analysis method helps in identifying the
scope of the architecture that needs to develop and for the establishment of the relationships
between the areas of architecture.
• EA components: Analysis and design method for EA components have changeable goals,
resources and standard that has a chance of having an enterprise wide extension what can also
be contained inside a specific line of segment or business. On the other hand there is a vertical
goal that defines the process program and resources serving the one line of business.
Horizontal goal on the other hand is a process program or resource that has several lines of
businesses.
• Current architecture: The current architecture of the analysis and design method has an
as-is view. This means that the particular current view of EA has been serving for the creation of
a baseline inventory including the current resources and activities which are to be document in

a way that the future view of the EA is consistent and if any gaps are there in the performance
of the future plans and the current capacity, analyst can look further in the matter with ease.
• Future architecture: The current components of EA have the need of the enterprise to
be closed to an exciting performance cab or it might even support a strategic initiative,
Technology solution or operational requirement.
• EA Management Plan: This enables a description for the current as well as the future
use over the architecture. The enterprise architecture management plan also sequences a plan
for the management of the transition of the current business operational environment to the
future business operational environment.
• Threads: IT related security, standards, and skill considerations
2. Discuss about some of the EA components and documentation
artifacts that would be included in current and future views at each
level of the 𝐸𝐴3 Cube framework.
Answer: The goal that shows only one line of business can be termed as a vertical goal. on the
other hand goal that serves various kinds of business is our resources, process or program can
be termed as horizontal goal.
Components: the components in this are the product, services, data, initiative, information,
application, Technology, infrastructure and systems.
Artifacts: documents, diagrams, data, spreadsheets, charts and others
3. How does an EA repository support the implementation
methodology?
Answer: The methodology that backs up the idea of current creation can be termed as
implementation methodology. EA repository has to be the database which has the information
and stores them to provide links to the air tools and all other a program resources that has
been design helps in the support documentation creation.