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Outline

LEA Section 10, Chapter 1: The Utilization of EA

The value of  EA

IT investment management

EA value for management

EA value for Engineering

EA and CPIC Capital investment decisions, budgeting effort and procurement should based on the overall enterprise architecture design and the priorities in the transition plan.

EA and Project management Projects are initiated, evaluate and selected based the need identified in the transition plan rather then individual justification effort. Holistic project management relies on EA to allocate the resources.

EA and Risk Management Risk management relies on EA for holistic risk management assessment and mitigation. Risk management depends on EA to identify the pattern of risk.

EA and requirement management Business architecture in EA is considered as the holistic requirement management. System requirement can be derived from the business architecture. Enterprise identify the system requirement pattern from business architecture.

EA and application development EA establish the common foundation and building blocks to enable Application development agility. Application development simplicity. Application development cost efficiency.

EA and Service Oriented Architecture Service Oriented Architecture do not replace EA. The challenge of SOA is to provide the right services based business need. EA describe the holistic enterprise business function and enable the selection of the right SOA. EA describe the holistic business workload and enable the placement of right services.

EA and IV & V IV & V leverage on EA system catalog to target systems for validation and verification.  IV & V leverage on EA workload analysis in stress test. IV & V leverage on EA to see the whole for integration test.

EA and Security Management Security management depends on EA to determine what to secure. Security management depends on EA to determine the priority of security level.