Guiding Agile Solution Delivery with the ArchiMate Language

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Guiding Agile Solution Delivery With the ArchiMate® Language Iver Band and Chris McCurdy February 4, 2015 Open Group Conference, San Diego California

Agenda

•Introduction •Elaboration of Solution Architectures •Best Practices •Your Questions?

Iver Band

• Enterprise Architect at Cambia Health Solutions

• Health Insurance Consumer Experience, Mobile Technology, Provider and Network Management, Architecture Tools and Techniques

• Vice Chair, Open Group ArchiMate Forum

• Co-Chair and Co-Founder, Oregon Enterprise Architects

• TOGAF and ArchiMate certified, CISSP, Certified Information Professional

iver.band@cambiahealth.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/iverpdx http://www.cambiahealth.com/ http://www.twitter.com/iverband

Chris McCurdy

chris.mccurdy@cambiahealth.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophermccurdy http://www.cambiahealth.com/

Chris McCurdy:

• IT Architect at Cambia Health Solutions

• Architecture processes, operations and tools

• TOGAF and ArchiMate Certified

INTRODUCTION

Our Roots Born from an inspired idea

Our Cause Becoming catalysts for transformation

Our Vision Delivering a reimagined health care experience

Our Story

About Cambia

22 companies and growing

A tax-paying nonprofit headquartered in

the Pacific Northwest

Nationally recognized: Top 100 Healthiest

Workplaces

5,300 employees in 30 states

100 million people touched nationwide

Cambia Health Solutions

Senior Services

Health Insurance

Retail Enablement

Provider Enablement

Wholly Owned Companies Direct Investment Companies Health Insurance

Direct Investment Companies Health Insurance Wholly Owned

Companies

Cambia Health Solutions

What is Enterprise Architecture? • A product

• A design that shows the coherence between products, processes, organization, information supply and infrastructure, based on a vision and certain explicit starting points, principles and preferences

• A practice • Way of working

• Aimed at the development and use of enterprise architectures within an enterprise

• With people and resources

TOGAF® - The Open Group Architecture Framework

What is the ArchiMate® Language? • A language for building understanding, and

communicating and managing change • A graphical notation with formal semantics • A framework that describes and relates

business, application, and technology layers • Extensions for modeling motivation as well as

implementation and migration • Techniques for visualizations and analyses for

different stakeholders • An open standard managed by The Open Group

Business

Application

Technology

Motivation

TOGAF, ArchiMate Core and Extensions

Preliminary

D Technology Architecture

Requirements Management

A Architecture

Vision B

Business Architecture

C Information

Systems Architectures

H Architecture

Change Management

G Implementation

Governance

F Migration Planning E

Opportunities and

Solutions

TOGAF ADM

ArchiMate Core

Business Architecture

Application Architecture

Data Architecture

Technology Architecture

What is Agile Solution Delivery? • A group of methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams

• These methods promote adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery and continuous improvement

• They encourage rapid and flexible response to change • Often, agile methods that work with small teams must be layered and augmented to enable large enterprises to deliver complex solutions

• The Scaled Agile Framework is one approach to this challenge

Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

ELABORATION OF SOLUTION ARCHITECTURES

Elaboration of Solution Architectures • Implementation analysts and engineers focused on data,

process, software and infrastructure typically elaborate solution architectures

• Solution architects can use the ArchiMate language to express their own decisions precisely, and to indicate what decisions are left to others

• Analysts and engineers can then update the model with the decisions they have made

• With the right tooling and repository, the implementation decisions can be traced

• Back to the solution architecture

• Forward to the design and code

Some Elaboration Techniques To Answer Common Questions

Question Technique

Why we doing this? Motivation View Creation

What do the requirements mean in detail? Requirements Elaboration

How can we satisfy the requirements? Requirements Realization

How do we develop the solution in stages? Sprint-Based Roadmapping

What system states will satisfy the requirements?

Requirement Realization Roadmapping

What are the contents of each plateau? Plateau Decomposition

When should we develop that feature? Sprint-Based Roadmap Elaboration

What is the structure and behavior of this component?

Application Component Elaboration

What infrastructure do we need? Infrastructure Usage View Creation

What must we develop in the next sprint? Gap Analysis

Case Study: Improving Project Management Tooling In Response to The Changing Role Of The Consumer

Current State: Disconnected Project Management Toolset Hampers Decision-Making and Execution

Motivation View of US Healthcare Payer Challenges

Drivers from Gartner Group “Business Drivers of Technology Decisions for Healthcare Payers, 2015”, December 2013

Future State: Integrated Project Management Toolset Enables Better Decisions and More Efficient Execution

What do the requirements mean in detail?

Requirements Elaboration

Requirements Realization

How can we satisfy the requirements?

Sprint-Based Roadmapping

How do we develop the solution in stages?

Requirements Realization Roadmapping

What system states will satisfy the requirements?

Plateau Decomposition

What are the contents of each plateau?

Sprint-Based Roadmap Elaboration

When should we develop that feature?

Application Component Elaboration

What is the structure and behavior of this component?

Feature Manager Component Elaboration

What does this component really do?

Infrastructure Usage View

What infrastructure do we need?

Gap Analysis: Start of Next Sprint

What must we develop in the next sprint?

Best Practices

Getting Started With ArchiMate Modeling

• Get trained in ArchiMate • Self-study is a possibility for experienced architects

and modelers, preferably with an experienced ArchiMate mentor

• Begin with a small number of standard ArchiMate viewpoints

• Develop and refine models in small groups • Keep most views simple, coherent and focused

• The occasional big picture poster in high-traffic areas can promote understanding and discussion

• Consider the arrangement, color, proximity, relative size, and visual flow of view elements

• Use legends, glossaries and explanations to broaden understanding

ArchiMate Modeling in Your Organization • Model only what is necessary to address stakeholder

concerns, make investment decisions and drive delivery • Automate repository population whenever possible • Peer-review ArchiMate models before publishing them • Publish models in a version-controlled repository that

allows models to reference each other • Do not commit to group tooling prematurely. Use

existing or free tools until you have a good idea of how you will use ArchiMate

• Do the right type of modeling for each situation • Sometimes catalogs, matrices or free-form diagrams

are best • Use appropriate languages for design, e.g. UML,

Example Architecture and Design Modeling Responsibilities

*Information Structure Views

Business Process Models

*Enterprise Data Model Business Capabilities

*Information Structure Views

Value Streams

Business Process Views with Capability Linkages

Application Cooperation Views

Infrastructure Usage Views

Infrastructure Views

Software Designs

Business Process Views with Application Service Usage

*Data Models

Business Architecture Managed Models

Business Architecture Deliverables

Project Delivery Team Design Responsibilities

IT Architecture Deliverables

Business Roadmaps: Motivation Views and Implementation and Migration Views

Solution Roadmaps: Motivation Views and Implementation and Migration Views

*Responsibility shared with data architecture and analysis practices

Your Questions?