Developing Initiative Roadmaps

Are you merging with another company? Acquiring new businesses? Moving to a new line of business? Transforming your enterprise? Engaging in cost-cutting efforts? Fully Automating your pipelines? Retiring old and expensive mainframe systems? These are initiatives that most businesses are engaging in. While there are dozens of activities within an enterprise architecture effort, there is only one primary outcome, and that is to develop an enterprise architecture roadmap. Roadmaps describe what efforts (i.e., projects) need to be done to meet a specific objective, the dependencies between those efforts, and the prioritization of those efforts. In this session I'll cover some of the models that make up an EA roadmap and show you techniques for how to identify projects, classify projects, prioritize projects, and finally illustrate these efforts through consolidated roadmap views. By the end of this session you'll have a clear view of why enterprise architecture is needed and how to create an effective and clear enterprise architecture roadmap.

Agenda:

• Roadmap scope and context
• Roadmap approaches
• Roadmap structure and models
• Iteration modeling
• Prioritization modeling
• Roadmap views and construction

About Mark Richards

Mark Richards is an experienced, hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems. He has been in the software industry since 1983 and has significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. Mark is the founder of DeveloperToArchitect.com, a website devoted to helping developers in the journey to software architect. He is the author of numerous technical books and videos, including the recently published Fundamentals of Software Architecture, Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls, Microservices vs. SOA, the Software Architecture Fundamentals video series, The Enterprise Messaging video series, Java Message Service, 2nd Edition, and contributing author to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. Mark has a master’s degree in computer science and is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) Symposium Series. He has spoken at hundreds of conferences and user groups around the world on a variety of enterprise-related technical topics.

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