A Situational Method for Creating Shared Understanding on Requirements for an Enterprise Architecture
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Date
2018
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International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
Abstract
Lack of shared understanding among stakeholders is a commonly cited drawback in
enterprise architecture development. Stakeholders need to have shared understanding of requirements
and principles for an enterprise architecture, and the extent to which the resultant architecture
addresses their concerns. However, existing approaches for enterprise architecture development lack
adequate capabilities for managing aspects associated with creating shared understanding among
stakeholders. Although such aspects can be largely managed by approaches for collaborative decision
making and soft systems thinking, these approaches lack details on the enterprise architecture process
and its products. Therefore, this paper explores ways of mutually diminishing these gaps through
adopting situational method engineering, to guide the development of a situational method for
enabling stakeholders to acquire shared understanding of requirements for an enterprise architecture.
The situational method presented herein is a component of a broader method for supporting
collaboration between stakeholders and architects during enterprise architecture creation. Although
the latter was successfully evaluated in 6 enterprises, it exhibited highest performance scores in two
enterprises after it was amended with the situational method. Therefore, this paper also presents key
findings from evaluating the situational method in the two agencies that are located in Uganda.
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Requirements for Enterprise Architecture, Shared Understanding, Situational Method Engineering
Citation
Agnes Nakakawa et al., A Situational Method for Creating Shared Understanding on Requirements for an Enterprise Architecture, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, doi: 10.1142/S0218843018500107