Department of Veterans Affairs

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Department of Veterans Affairs
Enterprise Architecture Improvement Plan
November 2005
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Enterprise Architecture V4.xObjectives

• Improve overall EA usability and readability.
• Complete EA components not addressed in EA V4.0
• PRM DRM
• Improve EA Governance and Usage
• Address Weaknesses Identified by OMB and
  incorporate CMM 2.0 Guidance
• To-Be (Target) Strategy
• To-Be (Target) Transition Plan
• To-Be (Target) Alignment Plan
• Demonstrate EAs proactive impact on the IT
  Portfolio
• Provide Line-of-Sight traceability of Department
  performance objectives through
• Business lines
• Portfolio Investments and
• Delivered Systems.

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Enterprise Architecture V 4.x Usability
Improvements

• Reduce overall size and complexity
• Provide basic (8) general-use EA products
  accessibility without navigating the EA web-site.
• Provide role-based navigation for
• Project Managers
• Investment Portfolio Managers
• OMB GAO Reviewers
• Business Stakeholders.
• Provide Complete EA as a web-portal.

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Enterprise Architecture Basic (8) Product
Organization

• EA Executive Summary
• As-Is Architecture
• As-Is Business Architecture.
• As-Is Conceptual Information Model
• As-Is CRUD Business to Information Mapping
• As-Is System Inventory
• As-Is Business to System Mapping
• To-Be (Target) Architecture
• To-Be Strategy
• TO-Be Transition Plan
• To-Be Project Summaries
• To-Be Reuse Gap Analysis
• To-Be Alignment Analysis
• To-Be Sequencing Plan
• To-Be Portfolio Recommendations
• EA Future Vision