Session 17: Using EA to Support the Budget Process Track 1: Building and Managing Valuable EA Progra

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Session 1-7 Using EA to Support the Budget
ProcessTrack 1 Building and Managing Valuable
EA ProgramsSeptember 21st, 230 345 p.m.

• The E-Gov InstituteEnterprise ArchitectureUsing
  EA for Value, Alignment, and ResultsThe 5th
  Conference September 19-21, 2005Ronald Reagan
  Building and International Trade Center,
  Washington, DC

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Overview

• What Attendees Will Learn
• How EA can and should be used to support agency
  budget processes.
• Best practices for developing performance
  measures to monitor program progress and define
  performance gaps.
• What to do from portfolio management and EA
  perspective to improve decision support.
• Strategies for using EA to improve budget
  justifications.
• How to developing consistency in support of
  budget submission and review.

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Introductions

• Brand Niemann (Moderator)
• Chair, Semantic Interoperability Community of
  Practice, Federal CIO Council Best Practices
  Committee and Office of the CIO EA Team, U.S.
  Environmental Protection Agency.
• Darren Ash
• Associate CIO, IT Investment Management, U.S.
  Department of Transportation.
• Stephen Lowe
• Chief Architect, Office of the CIO, U.S.
  Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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Setting the Context

• Definitions
• Universe Rather large area of mostly
  emptiness..
• Galaxy Part of the great emptiness but fuzzy
  like SOA.
• Solar System 9 or 10 rocks hurling around
  bright stars like the international standards
  organizations.
• Earth One of the rocks.
• Canada Part of the rock (10M km2), mostly snow
  covered, inhabited by apologetic humans (mostly
  apologizing for being named 1 GOL for 5 years in
  a row by Accenture).
• Government of Canada Highly Skilled, Good
  Looking and Modest Humans.
• Treasury Board Secretariat Money and Policy
  Managers.
• Chief Information Officers Branch In charge of
  informatics nationally but also prime on service
  and business transformation.
• Enterprise Architecture and Standards A
  division of CIOB dedicated to making Canada
  agile, effective and efficient.
• Etc.

Source Gary Doucet, Chief Architect, Government
of Canada, Presentation to the Web-Enabled
Government Conference, June 1-2, 2005, Service
Oriented Architecture in Canada.
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Parsing the Words

• Titles Building and Managing Valuable EA
  Programs and Using EA to Support the Budget
  Process
• Definitions of Enterprise Architecture and Budget
  Process.
• See Chief Architect Form Glossary.
• Relationships Between EA and Performance
• See Federal IT Performance Measurement Community
  of Practice.
• Executable Model of the Relationships Between EA
  and Budget, Performance, etc.
• See Semantic Interoperability Community of
  Practice.
• Types of Relationships Between EA and Budget
  Process
• Informs, Supports, Drives, etc.
• Dick Burk, OMB Chief Architect, CAF, July 7,
  2005, wants to get to EA drives the budget
  process!
• Issues Semantic model not agreed, not
  universal, or missing. (Source Gary Doucet, see
  previous slide.)
• This issue arose early on in planning of this
  session in hearing the different views of the two
  panelists!
• Semantic Interoperability is an essential part of
  the European Interoperability Framework for
  E-Government Services.

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Semantics and Semantic Interoperability

• Semantics
• A branch of linguistics that deals with the study
  of meaning, changes in meaning, and the
  principles that govern the relationship between
  sentences or words and their meanings. Semantics
  also involves effective information communication
  within and across languages, information
  surrogation, information organization, and
  discovery.
• Extracted from the Mission Statement of the
  Taxonomies and Semantics Special Interest Group,
  http//km.gov/.
• Semantic Interoperability
• Semantic interoperability is an enterprise
  capability derived from the application of
  special technologies that infer, relate,
  interpret, and classify the implicit meanings of
  digital content, which in turn drive business
  process, enterprise knowledge, business rules and
  software application interoperability.
• "Adaptive Information Improving Business Through
  Semantic Interoperability, Grid Computing, and
  Enterprise Integration" by Jeff Pollock and Ralph
  Hodgson, Wiley Publishing 2004.
• Used in White Paper 1 Introducing Semantic
  Technologies the Vision of the Semantic Web
  ("DRM of the Future") Delivered to the CIO
  Council's Architecture Infrastructure and Best
  Practices Committees, Feb. 16, 2005.

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Special Joint CoP Meeting What Do These Three
CoPs Have in Common?

• CAF CoP EA Glossary
• See Ira Grossman, CAF Lead, Session 2-4
  Leveraging Internet Tools for Collaboration of
  this Conference.
• http//colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ChiefArchite
  ctsForum
• Federal IT Performance Measurement CoP
• See Pat Plunkett, CoP Chair, Three Purposes of
  EA, January 12, 2005
• Reduce redundant IT applications, increase
  interoperability, and facilitate business
  improvement.
• Semantic Interoperability CoP Pilot Projects
• Brand Niemann, CoP Chair, FEA Semantic
  Interoperability Repository (search across
  documents to see how the same words and phases
  are used in the same or different contexts)
• Best Practices Dynamic Knowledge Repository at
  http//web-services.gov
• Mills Davis, SICoP Team Lead Pilot Concept and
  Budget and Performance Integration (see next
  slides).

September 21st, 12 noon 2 p.m. in Hemisphere
A.
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Pilot Progress to be reported by Mills Davis at
the Joint CoP Meeting at the Enterprise
Architecture Conference, September 21, 2005,
noon-2 p.m., Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, Hemisphere A,
Washington, DC.
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OMG Standards Zachman Framework
Source The Model-Driven Semantic Web, Emerging
Technologies Implementation Strategies, Elisa
Kendall, Sandpiper Software, August 16, 2005,
Implementation Strategies.