Project Management and Enterprise Information Architecture Introduction

Contents What is a project? 2 Enterprise Architecture 2 Conceptual Approach to EAI Reference Architecture 3 Enterprise Information Architecture 4 Reference Architecture 5 Enterprise Information Architecture Reference Architecture 7 Methods and Models 9 Enterprise information architecture reference architecture in context 12 Information Agenda Approach 12 Information Strategy 13 The Open Group Architecture Framework 14 Architecture Vision 15 Business Architecture 16 Information Systems Architecture 16 Service Oriented Architecture and Information as a Service 16 Information services in a SOA environment 17 Why software is different 20 Software is complex 21 Software is abstract 22 Requirements are Incomplete 22 Technology changes rapidly 23 Best practices are not mature 24 Technology is a vast domain 25 Scope management 25 Time Management 26 Activity definition 26

What is a project?

“A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result”

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Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture provides a framework for the business to add new applications, infrastructure, and systems for managing the lifecycle and the value of the current and future environments. Enterprise architecture provides the alignment across business strategy, IT strategy, and IT implementation.

Enterprise architecture links the enterprise business strategy to its IT investments by ensuring a tight integration between the Business, Application, Information, and Infrastructure architecture layers. Each of these areas describes integrated sets of blocks should be selected so that the enterprise can achieve its overall business objectives. They also need to be made available so that projects can use them in the design, development and deployment of IT-base business systems.

Enterprise Strategy Layer
For most institutions, strategic planning and