Scoping Enterprise Architecture - Part #2

You can find the introductory post on EA Scoping here

In order to properly outline the scope of an EA exercise, you should follow these steps:
1. Conduct several meeting with key business stakeholders, try to avoid IT department as they may bias your findings. You should try to understand what IT is doing and not doing for them, capturing their future requirements or "wishes" can also be beneficial.

2. Review your findings about common barriers and try to a.rationalize and b.prioritize them.

3. Identify which architectural components are the most important ones, an example of this activity is: when you find information sharing is a common problem, developing enterprise content architecture and information ownership models are probably the best bets to address this barrier.

4. Based on the components you need to develop, identify which EA artifacts you need to create. You may use your EA framework to pick those artifacts.

5. EA Artifacts tell you how you should tailor methodology to deliver them. once you had your methodology ready, you can start the "right size" EA project with confidence.