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Enterprise Architecture Enables Processes Paper- Individual Assignment

Purpose of this Assignment

This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply your critical thinking skills and understanding of the course concepts to explain how the enterprise architecture (EA) and/or the EA program supports the other IT management processes of an organization. This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes:

• describe enterprise architecture (EA), the appropriate application of EA frameworks, and an overall ongoing EA program

• analyze and examine how enterprise architecture and enterprise systems influence, support, and enable an organization's ability to contribute to strategic decision making and to respond and adapt to the business environment

• apply EA concepts to support business requirements and identify opportunities for enterprise solutions

Assignment

As you have learned throughout the course, EAs can be used to support a wide variety of information technology management processes, and an EA program strengthens IT management activities.

While there are many different flavors of development approaches such as Waterfall, Agile (to name a few), this assignment will focus on the System Development Life Cycle that is largely associated with a waterfall development approach.

A well-defined and implemented EA contributes significantly to each of the phases of the SDLC. For this assignment you will write a 4-5 page paper (not counting any cover sheet or reference pages) that explains briefly what enterprise architecture (EA) is and then how it supplements and enables each of the phases of the SDLC:

• initiation/planning/concept phase

• requirements analysis phase

• design phase

• development phase

• integration and testing phase

• implementation/deployment/support/maintenance phase

You should explain how EA enables each phase, how it fits into each phase, and what unique qualities or capabilities a well-defined EA contributes that might not otherwise be available to the organization. Very important!

Please do not just cite the various stages without ensuring that you emphasize how EA helps to enable each phase.

The use of at least two external scholarly resources (other than class materials) is required. You should use scholarly journals (rather than Wikipedia and author-less website postings).

Remember to correctly cite and reference all sources using APA format.