Enabling Disruptive Innovation By Re-Imagining The Architects Role, Improving Business Strategy Through Technology And Strengthening The Value Of The EA
28 July 2022| Virtual
| 9:25 am - 11:00 am AEST
Virtual Day One: July 28
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Conference Opening by IQPC Australia
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Enterprise Architecture wakes up in the Digital Age -- How platforms, Agile, digital disruption, transformation and demographics
Paul Taylor -
Business Technology Architect and Planner,
Department of Health and Human Services
Inji Wijegunaratne - Advisor Strategy and Enterprise Blockchain, Blockchain Australia
The first three COVID waves drove a huge State and government response -- dozens of system upgrades and new systems for epidemiology, population health, contact tracing, testing, trace, isolation, premise registrations for visitor QR code checkins, border protection, waste water monitoring, data correlation and prediction services, public health communication and publications, websites, social, apps, language translation and confirmation services, and more! Now, we are dialling back some systems and services, making others more robust, and resuming stalled projects that were put on hold between 2020-21. Revisiting business case and rationale for upgrading and scaling certain projects.
But the bigger issue for us is the realisation that EA needs to reposition itself from a traditional focus on mapping, guarding and policing technology across the enterprise, to being active in redesigning the way we operate in what has become an accelerated Digital Era. What does this mean for EA?
We will be exploring:
- What the traditional conception of EA is based on
- Five reasons why it needs to change
- Where the opportunities are for architecting the enterprise in the Digital era
- What you need to do, and how you can start.
Paul Taylor
Business Technology Architect and PlannerDepartment of Health and Human Services
Inji Wijegunaratne
Advisor Strategy and Enterprise BlockchainBlockchain Australia
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Simplifying SDLC Architectures with DevOps Platforms
Rob Williams -
DevOps Engineering Solutions Architect,
Gitlab
DevOps toolchains create operational overhead in a lot of ways, maintenance, integration, developer experience, and auditing just to name a few. In this session we will discuss how to standardise the SDLC with a DevOps platform enabling teams to collaborate more efficiently and reduce the time taken to go from idea to productionised applications.
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Re-engaging in Enterprise Architecture
Rod Dilnutt -
Industry Fellow – Information Systems Group,
University of Melbourne
Only a small percentage of Enterprise Architecture frameworks are currently used on a practical day-to-day basis. With usage at an all-time low, our panel of Architects will discuss whether the idea of a an EA framework needs to be dropped or evolved, and provide next-step solutions to move past this central issue:
• Do Enterprise Architects need a Framework, or are there new undervalued approaches?
• How can traditional frameworks stand up in current and future operating environments?
• How do we adapt the likes of TOGAF to the requirements of Agile Business?
• Which supplementary processes offer added flexibility and practical benefits?
