IT Architecture Services
Mission: Encourage the creation of an IT Architecture that is efficient, supports change and innovation and is consistent with the institution’s strategic direction.
Goals
- To solve business problems through the application of technology and technology-related process.
- To develop solutions that can be successfully constructed, implemented, operated and managed. Focus on the entire lifecycle of a solution.
- To develop solutions that support institutional policies, governmental regulations and industry standards.
- To support the enterprise architecture taking an evolutionary view of the entire ecosystem.
- Focus on the interaction of project to project, project to legacy systems and system to system.
- Reduce and/or avoid redundancy ensuring efficient use of resources and reduction in complexity.
What we do
- Solve business problems primarily using technology, policy and the relation of technology to policy.
- Identify and involve as appropriate stakeholders for initiatives.
- Identify patterns to help the organization focus on the important.
- Requirements discovery and analysis.
- Formulation of the solution context.
- Identification of alternatives.
- Assessment of alternatives.
- Technology selection/recommendation.
- Architectural configuration recommendation.
- Basic as well as applied research.
- Facilitate and support executive decision making and decisions.
How we do this
- Use formal methods (UML, use cases, etc.).
- Focus on process.
- Identification and framing of the problem.
- Collection and integration of information.
- Employment of good communication.
- Clarification of business as well as technical concepts.
- Negotiation/facilitation.
- Conduit for communication between projects and departments.
- Provide consulting skills.
- Provide knowledge.
- Connections with national and international initiatives.
- Provide leadership.
- Focus on enterprise data.
Includes information from: Jim Phelps's blog (http://www.jimphelps.info/work), The Open Group's IT Architect Certification Program (http://www.opengroup.org/itac), Carnegie-Mellon's Software Engineering Institute (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/architecture/).