Recently, Ada and Simon started the development of an ontology for Enterprise Architecture (EA) Debt. It delves into the nuances of EA Debt, defined as the gap between the current and ideal states of an organization’s enterprise architecture. The paper highlights the importance of a shared vocabulary to avoid misunderstandings in the domain and proposes …
We are happy to see the first article in the domain of EA Debt being published. It results from two Master’s theses and addresses the need to more effectively identify EA Debts in organizations, as previous approaches were time-demanding. A first set of interviews revealed an additional list of candidates for EA Debts. Having identified …
At this year’s EMMSAD, Jürgen will present the results of an experiment with some students to evaluate if the concept of EA Debts is beneficial. Therefore, one group of students was taught the concept of EA Debts, and the other group was not. Then, the students should model an EA with given requirements, and the …
We are happy to conduct the third student conference on enterprise architecture debts. The conference will be online again and take place August 24 from 13:00 to 15:30 CEST. The aim of the conference is to provide the students with the opportunity to present their work to interested practitioners and fellow students as well as …
We are happy to conduct the second student conference on enterprise architecture debts. The conference will be online again and take place December 17 from 9:00 to 14:00 CET. The aim of the conference is to provide the students with the opportunity to present their work to interested practitioners and fellow students as well as …
Monday October 25, Jürgen and Simon presented the outcomes of several workshops conducted with industry at the SoEA4EE workshop helt at the EDOC conference. After introducing the concept, Jürgen presented the workshop format that we conducted and what we learned from it. The presentation was concluded by good discussions around the concept of EA Debts …
Two papers have been accepted for publication that are related to EA Debts research. The first paper presents a workshop approach to identify EA Debts and their symptoms (i.e., EA Smells) in organization and illustrates it on two case studies. The work will be presented at the SoEA4EE workshop hosted at the EDOC conference. The …
Four students presented their EA Debts related work to each other and interested stakeholders from industry.
IT initiatives have constituted a major proportion of the overall strategic initiatives in today’s businesses. To fulfill the full potential of IT investments, bridging all gaps between business and IT is the first fundamental step. Such alignment has been the core focus of Enterprise Architecture, a discipline for establishing and maintaining strategic governance and management …