Task: GovDept is a mid-size governmental department providing important services of a social nature to thepopulation of a large territory. From the technology perspective, the organization can be consideredas a late adopter of innovations and characterized by relative underinvestment in IT, which has certainimplications for both its IT landscape and respective management practices. On the one hand,GovDept’s IT landscape is very heterogeneous and includes many legacy information systems andtechnologies some of which have been in use for decades. On the other hand, its IT-related management practices are also rather archaic. For instance, the relationships between business andIT leaders in the organization exhibit evident signs of “us and them” mentality, while new investmentsin IT are viewed by business mostly as a means to reduce costs of the existing operations.GovDept has a centralized IT department headed by the CIO and responsible for developing andsupporting information systems for all its business units. The IT department employs around 250specialists and consists of three main functions: architecture, development and service. Thearchitecture function includes a few architects focused predominantly on specific IT solutions.GovDept previously tried to uplift the maturity of its EA practice and extend the scope of architecturalplanning beyond separate initiatives, but these attempts did not succeed and respective architectshad been made redundant. Then, the CIO decided to undertake another deliberate effort to evolve GovDept’s EA practice withthe involvement of external consultants. For this purpose, the organization engaged a rather wellknown boutique EA consultancy to help initiate a full-fledged EA practice. The consultancy formed aproject team consisting of four architects specialized in different subject areas. This consulting teamacted according to a detailed engagement plan agreed with GovDept’s senior IT leadership. The planstipulated in which sequence and when exactly various EA artifacts will be produced. In total,consultants worked for 2-3 months, analyzed the organization, interviewed numerous stakeholdersand developed all the EA artifacts specified in the plan. Specifically, they started from analyzingGovDept in terms of current and desired maturity of its business capabilities and mapped existingapplications to respective capabilities. Then, they captured all relevant data entities, documented alltechnologies used in the organization, depicted current and defined target application portfolios andcreated more detailed CRUD (create, read, update and delete) relationship matrices. 1. You are required developed a comprehensive roadmap specifying what projects should beexecuted in the next 2-3 years. 2. Discuss 5 key roles that IT will play in the GovDept if implemented. 3. Discuss 5 key EA artifacts that would be delivered in 2-3 months. 4. Explain the taxonomy of documentations that you will implement and why you haveconsidered it important to GovDept. 5. Discuss the operating model that you will implement and why you have chosen the operatingmodel. 6. Discuss the roles of standard and landscapes in implementation of GovDept’s EA? 7. Discuss 5 types of IT initiatives that you have considered very important to GovDept’s EA 8. Explain considerations as EA Artifacts that will be delivered in GovDept’s EA 9. Discuss 5 subtypes of visions that you used in EA artifacts implementation.
Subject Name: Information Technology
Level: Undergraduate
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