Supplementing Enterprise Architecture Approaches with Support for Executing Collaborative Tasks — A Case of TOGAF ADM
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Date
2013
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International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
Abstract
Effective execution of collaborative tasks during enterprise architecture creation helps
to increase stakeholders’ involvement and awareness in the architecture effort. However,
enterprise architecture approaches lack detailed support for collaborative tasks. In
an effort to address this, an exploratory survey was conducted among enterprise architects
to investigate issues associated with executing collaborative tasks during enterprise
architecture creation. Accordingly, this paper discusses mainly three aspects. First, it
discusses how issues that were reported in the survey can be addressed by adopting the
design science research methodology to guide the development of a process or method
that supports the execution of collaborative tasks in architecture creation. The developed
process is principally rooted in collaboration engineering and soft systems methodology
(SSM). Second, the paper discusses how the developed method can be used to supplement
enterprise architecture approaches that are used in practice (e.g. TOGAF) with
support for executing collaborative tasks. Third, the paper discusses key findings from
evaluating the developed process in two real organizations.
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Keywords
Enterprise architecture, Collaboration engineering, Soft systems methodology, TOGAF ADM
Citation
Nakakawa, A., BOMMEL, P. V., & PROPER, H. E. (2013). Supplementing enterprise architecture approaches with support for executing collaborative tasks—A case of TOGAF ADM. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 22(02), 1350007. DOI: 10.1142/S021884301350007X