Bimodal Enterprise Architecture Management: The emergence of a new EAM function for a BizDevOps-based fast IT

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Authors

  • Paul Drews
  • Ingrid Schirmer
  • Bettina Horlach
  • Carsten Tekaat
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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE 21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, EDOCW 2017
EditorsJames Lapalme, Sylvain Halle, Remco Dijkman
Number of pages8
PublisherIEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Publication date02.11.2017
Pages57-64
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-1569-0
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-1568-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 02.11.2017
Event21st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop - EDOCW 2017 - Quebec, Canada
Duration: 10.10.201713.10.2017
Conference number: 21
http://edoc2017.ca/
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/edocw/2017/12OmNwekjuJ (Conference Proceeding)

    Research areas

  • Business informatics - Enterprise Architecture management, devops, bizdevops, Fast IT, Digital IT

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