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The objective of
this assignment is to get acquainted with the Enterprise Architecture Modeling
techniques by elaborating the various diagrams.
You will have to do
this according to the following steps.
A.
Finding an organization for enterprise modeling
For this assignment you will need
to find an organization where you can create the EAM models. The organization
can be in the public, semi-public or private sectors. It must be a non-trivial
organization of at least about 30 employees with a departmental structure with
well distinguishable business functions. A representative of the organization
must be willing to be interviewed for about two hours in order to create the
EAM. Furthermore, they must express a need for an advice on a current
Enterprise Architecture theme, that you will elaborate in Assignment 2. The
company may be in any part of the world, and is not restricted to be located in
the Netherlands.
An invitation letter signed by Sjaak Brinkkemper is available here.
You must email the following
information to Karl Werder (K.Werder@students.uu.nl) before 23 November 17.00 hrs.:
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the name of the
organization,
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their website,
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the name of the contact
person,
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and a short justification
of fulfilling the requirements above.
B. Description of the
enterprise
Make an interesting description of your enterprise taking your fellow students as model reader. Include aspects as the products, services, markets, locations, headquarters, number of employees, turnover and profit/loss, growth, mission, vision, strategy, history and crucial changes. We appreciate a logo (in GIF/JPEG).
You may also add pictures, photographs, schemas, organization charts, and the like, as long as this supports the explanation of the enterprise and is related to enterprise architecture.
This description should be between 2 and 4 pages A4 (including pictures).
C. EAM models
All models should be properly explained with text, so make sure the text clarifies the models and is consistent with the models. You don't need to make the text into a one to one transformation of the model, but be sure that all the major graphical parts of each of the models are addressed in the text and include some examples.
The diagrams should be created using Visio (use the templates in BSCW both for Visio and Word).
Check your diagrams against the modeling rules as explained in the lecture presentations.
The EAM models comprise the following:
- Supply Chain diagram at the Corporate level (inter-enterprise variant). An SCD at the intra-enterprise level may be required for those groups where the focus is on a business unit.
- Enterprise Function diagram at Corporate level.
- At least two (2) Enterprise Function diagrams at Functional level.
- Four (4) essential Scenario overlays on the Enterprise Function diagrams of B2 and B3.
- An application overlay on the Enterprise Function diagram (either at Corporate level or Functional level, depending on which is the most interesting).
- System Infrastructure diagram of the complete enterprise. If this gets too complicated it could be restricted to the Enterprise Functions chosen in B3.
- Interesting models of your enterprise may be included for the sake of illustration. See the confidentiality clause below.
Guidelines
Please take the following general guidelines into consideration.
Notice of
originality
We declare this paper is our own work and that information derived from
published or unpublished work of others has been acknowledged in the text and
has been explicitly referred to in the list of references. All citations in the text are between quotation marks (" ") .
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originality)
Please note that copying or
paraphrasing information without referencing it properly will be considered as
an act of fraud or plagiarism!
The objective of this
assignment is to write
See below for more information on
architectural themes.
We prefer consultancy
reports, but then of course, the company should be willing to participate in
providing a consultancy question and relevant information.
Especially in the case
of a consultancy report, it will be necessary to refer to your first paper. But
also with a literature study, examples or concrete descriptions in the paper
may be related to the company your first assignment was based upon.
Nevertheless, try to
keep your second paper as self-contained as possible, i.e. it should be
possible to understand this second paper without relying too much on your first
paper.
If you write for a
specific reader profile, e.g. enterprise architects or middle management, try
to address their problems and needs.
In writing the
second paper you should stick to the following general structure of the paper.
1. Executive summary
(only for the consultancy reports)
This section contains a relative short abstract of the problem and the solution(s).
2. Introduction
This section describes the general purpose of the paper, its scope and limitations, the main question and requirements (in case of a consultancy report), and its structure. It may include acknowledgements.
2 - n <<The body of your report>>
This is the main part of
the paper and probably will be subdivided into a number of sections (so n
is probably 5 or 6) and subsections.
Especially for the
consultancy report, think of background, scope, approach, one or more
propositions for solutions, consequences of the solutions (think of the
organization, people, money etc.) and a comparison of the different
propositions.
For the literature study,
there are no solution related sections, but your subdivision will depend on the
specific architectural theme. You might include a general perspective on the
theme and a perspective from a specific company.
n+1. Conclusion
Here you describe the most important results obtained
from your investigation. For the consultancy report, you also give the
recommendations.
7. References
A consultancy report is not
a scientific paper, so in this case don't use too many references, as it may
hamper readibility. However, a limited number of
references is fine.
For a literature study,
there is not such a restriction on the number of references; or rather, you
should have not too few references.
When you make a reference
in the text, use references (e.g. (Bayer02)) both in the text where the
reference is made, as well as at the end where the actual paper is mentioned;
e.g.
Bayer02 J. Bayer and R. Kolb. Architecture Patterns for Product Families.
Technical Report, No. 085.02/E, Fraunhofer IESE,
September 2002.)
Ratnasingam03a) Ratnasingam, P., Tan, Y.-H. (2003, June
9-11). Institutional Trust Related EDI Lessons for eMarketplaces.
Proceedings of the 16th Bled eCommerce Conference,
Bled, Slovenia, 275-285.
Ratnasingam03b) Ratnasingam, P., Sheppard, B. H., Shermand, D. M. (2003). The grammars of trust: a model and general
implications. Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 422-437.
Martin91 Martin, J. (1991). Rapid Application Development. New York, NY:
MacMillan Publishing Company.
You may also make use of
APA, see for instance CITATONS AND REFERENCES IN A.P.A. STYLE. But there are many other sites on
APA.
Architectural
themes
As mentioned above, we prefer a consultancy report related to an architectural
theme. To give you an idea about current architectural themes, see the list
below. Note however that it's not a must for a company to pick a theme from
that list. We only require that the theme is architectural in nature. So for
instance a consultancy question like "How satisfied are our clients?"
will not qualify.
Guidelines
Please take the following general guidelines into consideration.
Notice
of originality
We declare that this paper is our own work and that information derived from
published or unpublished work of others has been acknowledged in the text and
has been explicitly referred to in the list of references. All citations
in the text are between quotation marks (" ") .
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