Event Timetable

To address these challenges effectively we started Enterprise Architecture program.

The goal of this presentation is to share our experience of EA implementation: Our challenge

• Achieve management support – stakeholder management
• Acceptance of the change – impact on existing processes
• Expectation of large IT projects (NIS 2.0 and Consolidation of data centers)

• TOGAF® and ArchiMate® standards adaptation (methodology, trainings)
• Building prerequisites (organization structure, tool)
• Involvement of EA architects in all major projects

Our successes

• Alignment of understanding what EA brings to company
• Common platform for knowledge sharing
• Harmonization of TOGAF ADM with company project methodology

Lessons learned

• Visibility for business helps to gain management support
• Communication to project team is the best way how to adapt change
• Team trust to make the change happen is key factor

Intended audience: CxO, Chief Architects, Architects

Bio

Martin Kobza is Managing Director in Erste Group IT SK which is in-house integrator and development provider for ERSTE with primary focus on Slovenska Sporitelna (biggest retail bank in Slovakia)

The Flemish Government recently awarded its main IT contract to HP Enterprise Services. This contract stands for a new delivery model, where the “As A Service” model is the default for all entities going forward. Infrastructure, platform, applications, workplace as a service are the new services that will enable the entities of the government to transform the current estate towards a modern and “always up to date” model, based on private Cloud delivery models. This mode of operation will require an even stronger business - IT interlock and EA approach than today and the Flemish Government has been investing in its EA standardization approach to facilitate the transition and become even more response to changing citizen’s needs and interaction with the government. In this session we will cover the basics off the new “as a service” model and how EA helps provide the right alignment between business and IT departments. Practical examples will be used throughout the session to demonstrate reality and how entities are using a long term EA roadmap and governance approach to delivering better services faster to its citizens.

• CIO, Lead / Chief Enterprise Architects
• Government Directors or Ministers       

• EA as a way to align business & IT in government context. Best practices for establishing a strategic representation of EA in the board of directors of the entities of the Flemish Government
• Standardized services allow more agility at the business, with the business EA leading the way instead of the IT Architect promoting technical solutions
• Practical examples of entities having developed an EA roadmap that are on track

Bio

Yves Vanderbeken is the HP Enterprise Services Account Chief Technologist and Lead Enterprise Architect for the Belgium Public Sector accounts like Flemish Government, Local Communalities and EANDIS.  (Eandis is an abbreviation that stands for Electricity, natural gas (‘Aardgas’ in Dutch), Networks and DIStribution).

He leads and runs a team of 10+ enterprise architects who are involved in various IT Roadmap and / or critical projects. He remains active by delivering strategic Business IT alignment projects for various domains at the Flemish Government. Besides that, he works together with the Director of Strategy and Innovation on providing innovation and strategy insight for all domains and agencies of the Flemish Government.

Yves typically coordinates, manages and participates in the set up and development of strategic Business – IT roadmap and enterprise architecture (To Be models) with the Client’s Business and Architecture team and across the IT spectrum (Business, Applications and Infrastructure) with Board Level experience.

Yves is a core team member of the Flemish Government Open Data team since 2011. He has defined the technical strategy for setting up the Open Data platform and extracting, transforming and publishing information in a consistent was. He is the co-author of the Open Data Handbook that was published by the Flemish Government in February 2014. He coaches and advises the various departments on their Open Data Master Plan and how to disclose data from their source systems to the Open Data platform, making sure the data is of decent quality and consistent with other datasets.

Yves is widely experienced as senior Enterprise Architect with a main focus on technology and business alignment. He is an all-round IT person with 23+ years of experience in Enterprise / Systems / Business / Application / Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Office, Innovation, Proposal & Presales work, Management functions, Project & Team leading, Analysis and Programming.

His main business area of expertise is in government (5+ years), finance (7 years), manufacturing (7 years), chemical and heavy machinery.

This presentation will summarize all proposed aspects of structure and implementation roadmap of Government Enterprise Architecture of the Czech Public Administration as one of matters of Public Administration Reform.

The presentation will discuss the results of multiple case studies conducted in 2013 at 14 agencies, from different levels of Czech Public Administration from central Government to local municipalities. The results of the studies will demonstrate the wish of agency managers to use GEA as a manner of exploration, understanding and PA reform. It will also show their desire to use best practice for building architectural artifacts and share their own results with others

The presentation will summarize the requirements of study participants on EA framework adaptation and localization, like translation from trusted Best Practice resources such as TOGAF® and ArchiMate® to Czech language, simplification, complementing it with practical Czech examples and with various accelerators, e.g. Process Capability Hierarchy or Application Architecture Reference Model.

Intended audience: Managers, Public Sector Officers, Enterprise Architects

Key Takeaways:

• Czech public administration already achieved significant success in building eGovernment infrastructure and now wants to deploy National Enterprise Architecture as a manner of further exploration, understanding and reform of public administration and its IT support.

• Building of whole operational environment of Czech National EA, including all adaptation and localization, legislation, institutions, resources and knowledge transfer will be a long-term program which needs smart and feasible implementation roadmap to achieve both, quick and final benefits.

• For some industries, e.g. Public Administration, is definitely needed to simplify EA frameworks like TOGAF and to equip it with concrete Best Practice content like Application Architecture Reference Model, introduced here also modeled in the ArchiMate language.

Pavel Hrabe, University of Economics (VSE), completed studies of the ČVUT FEL Prague in 1989. In 2009, Pavel completed his doctoral studies on EA at the University of Economics, Prague. After graduation he began working as an analyst in the Faculty Hospital in Prague Motol. He was the branch manager in banking and sales/ marketing manager in various companies. Since 1995 Pavel has worked at SAP ČR, initially as a consultant of SAP R/3 module SD, then Retail and CRM. He has been working as a solution architect and management consultant for big customers. Since 2007, Pavel has specialized in advising on IT strategy and EA.

I will describe the methods I use to assess the current state of the company using TOGAF® and other enterprise architecture frameworks, perform a gap analysis, developed recommendations and roadmaps, and then assisted in standing up the enterprise architecture organizations.

I will also talk about my experiences in standing up an enterprise architecture group with my current employer, Aramark Corp.

Intended audience: Enterprise Architects, Chief Information Officers

• Best practices for standing up and Enterprise Architecture Group.
• Systematic methods for assessing, analyzing, developing recommendations and implementing a road map to stand up an Enterprise Architecture practice.