EA Forum Archive

Topic / Speaker Synopsis Date Presentation
Certification for Architects - is it worth it? by Jan de Beer

In South Africa there are few ITAC certified professionals since the process of attaining the certification is seen to be daunting and costly. Jan de Beer, who was awarded his ITAC Level II (Master Certified IT Architect) in January 2009, has agreed to share his experiences around achieving his ITAC certification and his thoughts on the value that the ITAC certification has brought him from a professional stand-point. In his presentation, Jan will discuss what is needed to attain the certification as well as answer any questions about it.

 Feb 2010 Download
Architecture Enabling KING III Compliance by Mauritz Kloppers

This presentation focuses on the new KING III code and the key requirements that can be enabled by EA and IT Governance; namely the development and maintenance of an IT Charter/policy that follows a formal Internal Control Framework, and the maintenance of Business / IT alignment and its documentation in a formal IT Strategy.

 Jan 2010 Download
EA Landscape in South Africa by Wynand Vorster

The presentation focuses on an enterprise architecture (EA) survey that Sybase conducted through ITWeb earlier this year. The survey aimed to determine the adoption level of EA in South Africa as well as to gain perspective on its uses locally. Participants ranged from IT directors in blue chip companies to business analysts in research groups in a diverse number of organisations. The results show trends within the local EA market, both in terms of its current state and what we can expect in the future.

 Oct 2009 Download
SOA What? by Willem Bekker, Standard Bank

The presentation includes a discussion on:

1. SOA-in-brief described in practical business terms
2. “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” in SOA
3. How does one establish SOA? – a real example

 Jul 2009 Download
An overview of the GWEA Framework by Willie Needham, SITA and Julius Segole, GITO Council

The South African government embraced TOGAF 8.1 in early 2008 as an architectural guideline and is now the first public sector entity to formally adopt and adapt TOGAF 9 for Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivery in government. The framework that resulted is referred to as the Government Wide Enterprise Architecture (GWEA) Framework. This presentation is a discussion on the creation and evolution of the framework as well as its alignment to TOGAF 9.

 Jun 2009 Download
A Project Governance Framework by Carol Thomas, Auditor-General

This presentation is a discussion on a project governance framework. It focuses on the definition of project goals, clarification of roles and responsibilities, risk management, change management, evidentiary requirements for an audit, and the enablement of project delivery.

 May 2009 Download
Usability and Eye Tracking by Marco Pretorius, Usability Manager & Researcher

This presentation provides insight into the work taking place in UNISA‘s usability laboratory. It includes examples of usability and eye-tracking studies and their results, and shows how a focus on usability and user-centred design improves delivery of the various layers of an enterprise architecture.

 Mar 2009 Download
Moving From Checkmate to Archimate by Louw Labuschagne, Real IRM

ArchiMate is an exciting new development within The Open Group that is focused on providing mechanisms to support enterprise architects in describing, analyzing and visualizing the relationships between business domains in an unambiguous way. The aim of this presentation is to introduce the Archimate Language to South African architects with a special focus on describing the key elements of the notation. A sample set of domain viewpoints described by ArchiMate is also discussed and explained.

 Nov 2008 Download
Business Requirements, Use Cases, and EA Assets… by Marius Snel, Nedbank

This presentation describes how Nedbank has improved the quality of business requirements by using an Enterprise Architecture approach to identify and create processes from which use cases are defined and automatically generated for solution development.

 Oct 2008 Download
Enterprise Architecture in Support of Project Execution by Etienne Venter, Woolworths

This presentation includes the manner in which the domain architectures are used in the solution architecture to support project execution. The solution architecture comprises project definition, business requirement specifications, system requirement specifications and application integration specifications.

 Aug 2008 Download

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