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Week 2 Required Discussion
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Your reading this week from the “Practical Guide” focuses on initiating an EA program.
1.1. If I were in an executive position with your organization, why would it be so important to gain my “buy-in”? What arguments would you give to convince me that initiating an EA program is worth it?
1.2. What are some of the primary benefits and challenges associated with initiating an EA program?
1.3. What benefits could be derived by assigning a Chief Architect to the EA program?
Then, as a separate discussion topic (non-graded, but required for Participation credit).
Source: Video on Enterprise Architecture
2.1. From the video, define “architecture viewpoints”.Why are they so important?
2.2. Using your response from the Week 1 discussion, detail how the themes (operational, information (data), services, and/or technology) should be supported by your architectural viewpoint(s). Defend/Explain your response in detail.
2.3. Explain how you believe identifying the architecture viewpoints, relative to the selected themes, would contribute to improving the overall architecture supporting your organization.
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