Bimodal Enterprise Architecture Management: The emergence of a new EAM function for a BizDevOps-based fast IT
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During the last years, many companies established fast IT or digital IT units dedicated to build and operate digital customer-facing services. These units adopted agile methods, new tool chains as well as new organizational settings like BizDevOps teams. BizDevOps teams are responsible for continuously (re-)defining business functionality of certain (micro-)services, (re-)developing and running them. In these new fast IT environments, the role of enterprise architecture management changes dramatically. BizDevOps teams have a high degree of autonomy in designing both, the functionality and the architecture of their (micro-)services and thus contribute to business-IT-alignment in a new way. Nevertheless, a central enterprise architecture management (EAM) function is still required for supporting the teams regarding cross-team and cross-service issues. Furthermore, as many companies still run the traditional IT function side-by-side with the new IT function, the EAM functions of both parts have to cooperate. Based on a single case study, we discuss the emergence of a new EAM function ("fast IT EAM"), changing tasks and processes, implications for EA models and challenges for the integration of the traditional EAM and the fast IT EAM functions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2017 |
| Editors | James Lapalme, Sylvain Halle, Remco Dijkman |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publisher | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Publication date | 02.11.2017 |
| Pages | 57-64 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-1-5386-1569-0 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-5386-1568-3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 02.11.2017 |
| Event | 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop - EDOCW 2017 - Quebec, Canada Duration: 10.10.2017 → 13.10.2017 Conference number: 21 http://edoc2017.ca/ https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/edocw/2017/12OmNwekjuJ (Conference Proceeding) |
- Business informatics - Enterprise Architecture management, devops, bizdevops, Fast IT, Digital IT