CAEAP Programs Overview

What is CAEAP doing to advance the EA industry today?

There are five programs that CAEAP wishes to engage with organizations, sectors and regions to complete:

1. Enterprise Architecture Professional Practice Guide (EA-PPG);
The Enterprise Architecture Professional Practice Guide will serve as the leading business document for enterprise architects to advance in their specific fields, and will serve as a crucial reference for educational bodies.

2. Executive Training: Leadership in the Enterprise Architecture Profession (LEAP);
The LEAP program is a leading-edge development opportunity designed for executives challenged with optimizing the performance and success of their organization. It covers all aspects of enterprise architecture—from strategy and structure issues to those surrounding external alliances and partnerships. This program will help you better design, plan, and implement strategies and structures that delivery better business results.

3. Mentoring Program: Mentoring for the Enterprise Architecture Professional (MEAP);
MEAP is an international EA coaching and mentoring service that connects practitioners with expert advisors dedicated to helping practitioners form and grow their practices. MEAP provides expert advice and valuable resources for practitioners to start and grow their own EA practice. Thousands of practitioners count on MEAP (Mentoring for the EA Professional) for confidential practice counseling. MEAP will assign you a personal practice coach to help you with every step of your practice. Whether you are a longtime practitioner or new entrant into the profession–MEAP is a resource for you.

4. The Enterprise Architecture Registry Program (EARP)
4.1. The Registered Enterprise Architect is maintained through a registry that provides recognition that an enterprise architect has met the basic educational requirements for a profession (through other accredited organizations), follows the oath, understands the professional practice guide for the profession, and aspires to the principles and values found in the doctrine. There is an experience component as well, that is checked against a reference model for the types of architectural work found within enterprise architecture. Part of this is to list this career progression on the registry so that the enterprise architect can show consistency in growth and professional development. CAEAP will maintain this registry as a method to accredit enterprise architects. The registry is also a method for recognizing enterprise architecture teams, executives who have a basic understanding of the profession, and those on the path to becoming a registered enterprise architect.

4.2. The Registered Enterprise Architecture Team recognition is through a 5-star approach. Different than the maturity model approach, which is based on quality and process metrics, the star approach is based on softer variables. This includes how the team is known outside of its own company, how the business views its team, recognized writing, community involvement, and the ability to design in the enterprise (innovative designs, alignment). This is the secret sauce that cannot be predicted through other approaches. There are no specific hurdles from one star to another, although as this evolves those will become better understood.

5. The EA Accreditation Program (EAAP)
The mission of the Accreditation program is to provide the foundation excellence in the enterprise architecture profession by setting standards for EA education, training and certifications through CAEAP accreditation programs that meet those standards. Accreditation is not the same as certification; certifications control the process by which professionalism is measured where accreditation approves others that control the process.

There are three major interrelated segments of the Accreditation program

o Accreditation of Education and Training

o Accrediting of Certifications

o Accrediting Individual Professional Practices

1. Accredit Education and Training (click on link for more details)

o Education is University level education that is either directly tied to the professional practices of the enterprise architecture profession or to a support field.

o For classes that are enterprise architecture specific this may contribute directly to an individual requirement.

o For classes that are part of a support field this does not apply directly to an individual requirement.

o Training is through an accredited provider.

o Training can be course based or certification based.

o It has to be specific to the enterprise architecture profession.

o A matrix can be developed to place the course or courses within the context of CAEAP accreditation.

2. Accrediting Certifications

o Certifications are accredited if they meet the criteria set up for the enterprise architecture profession.

o Certifications can be used to eliminate requirements depending upon how they contribute to knowledge:

o Terminology

o Concepts

o Extension

o To deliver a certification the certifying organization must be a participant in the CAEAP process.

3. Accrediting Individual Professional Practices

o Professional practices are how an individual operates as a professional enterprise architect.

o The only accreditation mechanism is to determine that the individual is fully aware of their responsibilities to the public and profession.

o This has often been a test; however there may be other options to consider.

Below are three areas of standards to benefit the public, the practitioner and profession. Each track must reach a certain level of maturity before EA can call itself a profession.

Track A – Enterprise Architecture Standards of Practice, value to the public:

· Relegating practice responsibility to qualified professionals,

· Constant application of new ideas and advancements in the profession,

· And a public awareness of what value a professional architect has in society.

Track B - Enterprise Architecture Professional Learning Framework, value to the practitioner:

· Common standards that is applicable to all enterprise architects,

· A framework for an enterprise architect to continually grow and improve,

· And a method for marketing professional architects over non-professional architects.

Track C - Enterprise Architecture Industry Governance, value to the profession:

· Constantly testing, refining and codifying common practices,

· Reflective learning that can then be applied back to academia,

· And the process by which this is all governed.

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.

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