1. Why is it important to understand the "people side" of Enterprise Architecture?
2. Imagine that your personal set of technology tools and applications comprise your " personal Enterprise" in the space below, share the following:
-Write an inventory of the top 3 physical tools (your smartphone, etc) and top 3 applications tools that you use.
- Write 2 or 3 goals you have to improve your personal enterprise of technology tools over the next 12 months.
- Describe 2 or 3 projects you could undertake to achieve these goals.
3. You were recently promoted to be the team technical lead for your IT operations team. You think the company you work for should adopt an
Enterprise Architecture approach, but you don't think you have the authority or influence to make this happen. What step could you take today to start realizing some of the benefits of EA?
4. The collaborative planning Methodology is the full planning and implementation lifecycle for use at all levels of scope defined in the common approach to federal enterprise architecture for the United States. A summary of the methodology is shown below. Compare and contrast this with the EA methodology described in the text. How does this methodology support EA? Do you see any areas of conflict?
5 -List several hypothetical EA components at each level of the EA3 framework for a large automobile manufacturing company.
6- one question often asked for EA programs is "How far into the future should the EA future views attempt to provide documentation?" Describe what you would need to learn about an enterprise, its current state and its goals in order to answer this question.