What's Your Baseline? Enterprise Architecture & Business Process Management Demystified
Roland Woldt / J-M Erlendson
Recent Episodes
Growing your practice is on every leader's mind. The way to do this is to have an eye on the definition and the development of the maturity of your organization.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- What is maturity and which three areas you should focus on (content, governance, adoption)
- Assessment of capabilities (5 big buckets)
- What to rate the maturity against, e.g., CMMI
- An example of how an assessment can be built and used on a regular basis
- How to grow the maturity over time
- Tips on how to get the full picture on where you are on your journey (individual maturity vs. organizational maturity)
The full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at whatsyourbaseline.com/episode27.
One of the biggest problems of architecture groups was (is?) that they are doing good work, but that will not be recognized by others. One of the causes for that is that their repository and artifacts have almost no visibility outside of their group. To mitigate this situation, we are speaking with Laurie Kelly about how to communicate the value of architecture in today's episode of the What's Your Baseline Podcast.
Laurie is the Global Director for Demand Generation at Ardoq, an Enterprise Architecture tool vendor. But she comes with a 25 year background in Marketing, where she held leading Marketing positions at PWC and Mega.
She is excited about the new tools for Marketing automation that allow to capture insights and ROI tracking which has not been available before. She uses this knowledge to help companies and organizations modernize their thought leadership and increase customer engagement, whether in-person or across the digital biosphere of web, mobile, email and social media. Further, she uses her passion to make a difference in her local community by engaging in organizations and projects that cultivate innovative learning.
We are talking about the following topics:
- Laurie's background and ambition
- Defining "success" for architecture, why it is important, who it needs to be successful with, and how to do this
- Failures of communicating the value
- How architects can enhance their perceived value - how to communicate, which channels to use, and when to communicate
- How this can support Marketing to create an effective sales/practice tool
- Laurie's immediate four tips to improve talking to non-architects
Laurie can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurienkelly/.
The full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at whatsyourbaseline.com/episode26.
We made it - 25 long form episodes of the podcast (and 7 "Shorts" as well).
By popular demand - and because our statistics shows it - we are having "(Another) Ten Things I've Learned" episode. This time we are talking about three major areas:
How to measure your architecture and improvement programs
1. Architecture / BPM is not about the topics at hand (apps, processes, etc.) it is about people and how people interact with each other
2. When measuring architecture, make things SMART
3. Process Mining is the “next hot thing”, but it is not all and other, older process improvement methods still have their place
4. Process and Task Mining can’t shotgun a Solution
How to get your arms around (some of) the people aspects
5. There is a new interest in “Process” while “EA” is still stuck in technology
6. We have a responsibility to enable the next generation of BPM and EA
7. Enablement must include “why”
8. Internal communications cannot come with expectations of attention
How the "new reality" in which we work for two years by now will affect us practitioners
9. We need to rethink the role of “The Office”
10. Podcasts and videos are the new way to communicate the topics
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The full show notes, including graphics, further links, credits, and transcript, are available at whatsyourbaseline.com/episode25.
People.
For better or worse a lot of the topics in EA and BPM center around people. These are the reasons why we do things (customers who pay for our goods and services), who does the work (employees and partners), or why processes and architectures even exist in the first place.
In this What's Your Baseline Shorts, we are talking about process empathy:
- What does it take to facilitate the development of a human-centric process model?
- What kinds of things should you think about, and when in the process?
- What does it mean to have people-focused processes?
- What are Customer Journeys?
- How can we use the methodology of Customer Journey Mapping to make more human-sustainable processes?
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to [email protected] or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.