| | October 20169CIOReview· Agile way of work is talk of the town and it goes hand in hand with Digital transformation journey. A pragmatic and at the same time an effective architecture governance will play a very important role to ensure the architecture blueprint is a living artifact with well defined transition architectures for at least every 6 month milestones.· The much talked about Design Thinking approach has a bigger influence of developing digital solutions with two of its principle "Empathy" and "Feedback" has made a striking mark on building new business services. These principles can be easily adopted when developing each of the architecture domains and the "Prototyping" principles can be effectively used to develop various architecture "Views" for identified key stakeholders. This will help in demonstrating how various aspects of the architect blueprint & the decisions behind them, bring value to its key consumer personas.· It is widely seen that large and mid size established organizations have found it the most tough to digitalize their services. Their rigid and undocumented legacy landscape has been the main hurdle to slow the speed of digital adoption. While the various cloud and virtualization deployment models have provided some respite to bring down cost of IT ownership, it still is a problem when it comes to reducing time to market of new services. EAs will play a key role on behalf of the IT departments to build a phased approach based on pragmatic solutions and going hand in hand with the digital roadmap.Having said this, there are areas where the EAs need to work to influence the business community that they are right folks to lead this digital journey. Below I list down some keys of those aspects that an enterprise architect should focus on developing as part of his profile.1) EA should be able to drive innovation and collaborate with key stakeholders in the EAs should groom and guide Business & Technology communities and encourage them for involvement in various open source and digital technology forumsenterprise to identify and develop new business capabilities and technology capabilities.2) EA needs to be more hands-on and one who does not fear to lead the digital transformation for the enterprise. He needs to utilize his experience with tried and tested tradition Enterprise Architecture frameworks, like TOGAF, and adapt them to the changing market expectations and pace. 3) EAs should develop and maintain tools and frameworks which work as enablers and add the required meat to make effective use of EA frameworks like TOGAF to develop the to-be enterprise blue print. 4) Since it is not always possible for EAs to be expert on every technology out there, they should groom and guide Business & Technology communities and encourage them for involvement in various open source and digital technology forums with endeavor to participate in the ecosystem to adopt these technologies. This way enterprise architects can ensure that they are well connected to technology SMEs and have a good handle on technology innovations.
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