Ted McLaughlan | EA Voices

An Agile Enterprise Architecture (EA) Delivers Critical Business and Mission Agility

While working with a recent partner, the question came up; "What changes are made to the EA approach if agile methods are required, or otherwise heavily encouraged?" The initial answer at the time was "Not many – we already have an agile…

March 14, 2013
Ted McLaughlan

Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture (EA)

Selling Federal Enterprise Architecture A taxonomy of subject areas, from which to develop a prioritized marketing and communications plan to evangelize EA activities within and among US Federal Government organizations and constituents. Any and all feedback is appreciated, particularly in developing and…

December 4, 2012
Ted McLaughlan

Create a Social Community of Trust Along With Your Federal Digital Services Governance

The Digital Services Governance Recommendations were recently released, supporting the US Federal Government's Digital Government Strategy Milestone Action #4.2 to establish agency-wide governance structures for developing and delivering digital services. Figure 1 - From: "Digital Services Governance Recommendations" While extremely important from…

September 5, 2012
Ted McLaughlan

Sequestration Planning May Illuminate Value Engineering via Enterprise Architecture

The next 5 months portend a spectacle of US Congressional battles to be waged ahead of the pending, mandatory “sequester” - automatic, mandatory federal government spending reductions of about $1 Trillion over 9 years, in non-exempt, discretionary appropriations, set to take effect…

August 6, 2012
Ted McLaughlan

An Actionable Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture

The recent “Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture” (US Executive Office of the President, May 2 2012) is extremely timely and well-organized guidance for the Federal IT investment and deployment community, as useful for Federal Departments and Agencies as it is for…

July 2, 2012
Ted McLaughlan

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