Workstream Tracks

Standards of Practice

 Track A

Professional Learning Framework  Track B

Industry governance

Track C

Workstream A1: Develop the Practitioners Guide to Enterprise Architecture.

A guide to encourage enterprise architects to reflect upon and explore their practice in order to enhance it. Guidelines for operating as a professional enterprise architect either as an employee or independent, how to run a firm, responsibilities (detail) and expectations by clients or stakeholders, and sample situations and what to do with them.

Workstream B1: Create an Enterprise Architect Competency Framework.

A common comprehensive competence architecture is developed which maps, knowledge, qualifications, skills, performance standards and experience requirements against a complete set of roles and, where possible, standard job specifications within the EA profession.

Workstream C1: Develop the Registry for Enterprise Architecture Professionals.

Establish the Registered Enterprise Architect brand.  Employers perceive the need for professional titles within established professions. Established professions have a critical mass of registered professionals as part of their total population.

Workstream A2: Create a Standard for Recognized Professional Qualifications.

Professional status within EA is based on a limited set of recognized professional qualifications with a single, registered professional qualification for EA practitioners representing the Registered Enterprise Architects (REA).

Workstream B2: Develop an Accreditation for EA Frameworks.

The purpose of the accrediting frameworks is to ensure that enterprise architecture frameworks are consistent with the Enterprise Architecture Profession.  To accomplish this, a reference meta-framework is used to provide the constraints for an enterprise architecture framework.  The meta-framework should be detailed enough to separate enterprise architecture frameworks from non-enterprise architecture frameworks as well as determining that the proposed framework is indeed a framework.  The meta-framework must also be generic enough to apply across many frameworks that address different aspects of enterprise architecture.

Workstream C2: Develop an Enterprise Architecture Branding and Marketing Program.

The maturity of a profession can be characterized by sustained professional institution branding which changes minimally over time.  This naming carries through into public and employer perception. Registered Professional is vital in increasing aspirations and attractiveness of EA to the young and society.

Workstream A3: Develop Clear, Common Professional Standards.

Workstream B3: Develop an Accreditation of Education Program.

Workstream C3: Create Awareness Program in Recognition of and Respect for EA Professionals.

Standards of conduct and practice for professionals across the profession based on common codes maintained and monitored by the entire major professional bodies with the full support of the EA industry.

Professional institutions have control over higher education products for many established Professions. Specific exemptions may apply in professional exams in lieu of a relevant degree.  This is not the case for EA where there is little control over higher education intake and its quality. This may result in a pool of poor caliber people in EA.

Professional status is the major differentiator for individuals in EA. EA professionals hold a recognized professional qualification and registered status is the normal aspiration of new entrants to the profession. EA professionals have a clear personal responsibility, recognized by customers and the wider community, respected by employers and supported by professional institutions.