# Presentation: 805489

## Department of the Interior Enterprise Architecture Overview

- DOI Process for Modernization Blueprints – a “Take-Action” Approach to Enterprise Architecture

## A “Take-Action” Approach to Enterprise Architecture was developed and deployed at the BLM that can be effectively adapted for the Department.

- BLM Enterprise Architecture - Target Application Architecture (TAA)

- Transition
- Plan

**Assessment**

**Actions**
**(Enhancements, **
**Efficiencies, Strategies)**

**Vision**

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## How was the approach Take-Action?

- Evaluated systems for:
- Which systems were _old and/or costly_ to maintain?
- Developed recommendations on how to move forward quickly.
- Opportunities to _tie systems together_ more effectively.
- Identified systems that need to talk that didn’t.
- Identified business process issues that are not currently addressed.
- Ways to _centralize information_ assets.
- Improved reporting, security and data integrity.
- Ways to _improve access_ to information.
- Introduce current technologies to broaden accessibility.
- Delivered short and longer-term recommendations that can be acted upon:
- Which systems may need to be _consolidated_.
- Which systems would benefit from _shared application services_.
- Potential _investment proposals_ that may need to be considered now.
- Comprehensive views of how the IT systems _support the lines of business_.

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## Take-Action Approach to Enterprise Architecture – Four Phases

- 1. Establish Conceptual Vision of Target Architecture

- 2. Determine Scope of Assessment and Collect Data

- 3. Assess Alignment With FEA and DOI Architectures

- 4. Develop Tactical and Strategic Modernization Blueprints

**Department**
**Enterprise**
**Architecture**
**Repository**
**(DEAR)**

**The Department Enterprise Architecture Repository (or DEAR)**
**will be the system of record for critical EA information.**

**Modernization blueprints – a related set of tactical and strategic modernization recommendations.**

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## 1. Establish Conceptual Vision of Target Architecture - Process

**Sample Conceptual Target Application Architecture**

- FEA-PMO
- Guidance

- Technical
- Standards

- Industry
- Best
- Practices

**Document**

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## 1. Establish Conceptual Vision of Target Architecture - Criteria

**Business Assessment Criteria **

**Data Assessment Criteria **

**Technology Assessment Criteria **

**Service Assessment Criteria **

**The criteria is derived from the target state and is used to assess how well a system aligns with the target state.**

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## Initial efforts are focused on the 1,000 foot and the 10,000 foot levels for sets of related systems, then moved to the 30,000 foot level and higher for larger groupings of systems.

- OMB
- Federal
- Focus

- Enterprise
- Focus

- Systems
- Grouping
- Focus

- Related
- Systems
- Focus

- Individual
- Systems
- Focus

**0**

**20**

**40**

**60**

**80**

**100**

**Breadth Meter**

**0**

**20**

**40**

**60**

**80**

**100**

**Depth Meter**

**0**

**20**

**40**

**60**

**80**

**100**

**Breadth Meter**

**0**

**20**

**40**

**60**

**80**

**100**

**Depth Meter**

- Data Collection /
- Validation

- Related
- Systems

- Systems
- Grouping

- Enterprise
- Target

- OMB
- Linkages
- and
- Alignment

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## 2. Determine Scope of Assessment and Collect Data - Process

**Future Project 4**

**System 10**

**System 1**

**System 4**

**System 5**

**System 2**

**System 3**

**Future Project 2**

**System 7**

**System 8**

**System 9**

**Subject Matter**
**Expert**
** ****Interviews and**
**Documentation**
**Reviews**

- Target
- Architecture
- Interview Guide

- Validation / Reports / Findings

**System 6**

**Future Project 1**

**Future Project 3**

- Scope Document

- System
- Grouping

- Models of Systems

- Identified
- Systems
- Scope

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## 2. Determine Scope of Assessment and Collect Data

**Field Data Collection Templates are used to collect the systems data**

**These data collection templates:**
**1) standardize the data collected about systems, and **
**2) ensure uniform modeling of the systems across system groupings.**

**System**
**Architecture**
**Template**

**FEA Reference Model**
**Templates**

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## 3. Assess Alignment with FEA and DOI Architectures - Process

**3. Assess Alignment with FEA and DOI Architectures - Process**

**    ****System  Assessment    **

**Business**
**Architecture**

**Data**
**Architecture**

**Technology**
**Architecture**

**Service **
**Architecture**

**Classification**

- Business processes supported by the system
- System support of DOI and BLM strategies, goals, and objectives
- Stakeholders feedback on performance
- Functional overlap with other systems
- System training and support opportunities addressed.

- PRM / BRM

- DRM

- SRM / CBA

- TRM

- Existence and documentation of data standards and protocols
- Data storage / access method maturity
- Data entity access / modification overlap with other systems.

- Target Application Architecture compliance
- Extent system design requirements are defined and documented.
- Extent systems interfaces are defined and documented.
- Extent to which high-level design or operational concepts are defined.

- Compliance with TRM technology architecture components
- Extent of use of shared, existing infrastructure components and services
- Extent of compliance with TRM standards, protocols and best practices.

- Legacy Architecture
- Consolidate Low Data Maturity Systems
-  Re-engineer Low Systems Architectures
- Target

- The modeling of DOI enterprise architecture elements and their relationship to assessment criteria facilitates “line of sight” analyses.  Popkin SA is used to model the relationship between inputs, outputs, and outcomes.  Model queries and analyses support the assessment process

**Systems are assessed against established criteria and are then classified**

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## The System Grouping Analysis Template – Analysis and Assessment

**Our analysis template is reuseable and ensures uniform analysis across system groupings**

**The System Grouping Analysis Template – Analysis and Assessment**

**Introduction Worksheet –**
**Provides background,**
**takes user through **
**assessment step by step**
**with automated links to **
**related information at summary and detailed levels**

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## The System Grouping Analysis Template – Criteria, Scoring Against Criteria, and Visualization of System Scoring Results

**Well-defined criteria for assessing alignment**

**Templates for uniform system scoring**

**Visualization of assessment results**

**The System Grouping Analysis Template – Criteria, Scoring Against Criteria, and Visualization of System Scoring Results**

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## 4. Develop Tactical and Strategic Modernization Blueprints

**DEAR**

**Modernization blueprints (tactical and strategic modernization recommendations) are produced and should be managed **_***in parallel***_**. **

**Take-Action**
**EA**
**Approach**

**Strategic**
**Modernization**
**Blueprint**

**Tactical**
**Modernization**
**Blueprint**

**Recommendations**

**Recommendations**

**Decisions**

- O&M
- Project
- Management

**Decisions**

- Investment
- Proposals/
- Business
- Cases

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## 4. Develop Tactical Modernization Blueprints – Process

**Sample Conceptual Target Application Architecture**

- Current
- System
- Issues

- Assessment
- Analysis

- Analyst
- Experience

- Tactical
- Improvement
- Candidate
- List

**DEAR**

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## 4. Develop Tactical Modernization Blueprints – Documentation of Selected Tactical Improvements, Identify Magnitude of Effort, Develop Recommendation

- Conduct baseline analyses
- Set improvement targets
- Identify, select, and propose improvements
- Maximize investment across entire system grouping

- Recommendations can be prioritized to yield maximum benefits across the system grouping within budget constraints

**DEAR**

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## 4. Develop Tactical and Strategic Modernization Blueprints – Support Recommendations with “As-Is”, “To-Be” Architectures

- Tactical recommendations include short-term improvements in alignment with strategic architecture goals within constraints of existing O&M budgets.  Recommendations include “As Is” and “To Be”
- Architecture Diagrams

**DEAR**

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## 4. Develop Tactical Modernization Blueprints – Process

**Future Project 4**

**System 10**

**System 1**

**System 4**

**System 5**

**System 2**

**System 3**

**Future Project 2**

**System 7**

**System 8**

**System 9**

**System 6**

**Future Project 1**

**Future Project 3**

- Identified
- Improvement
- Candidates

- Duration/
- Cost
- Estimates

- Dependencies

- Tactical
- Modernization
- Blueprint
- Sequencing
- Plan

**Identified system grouping only**

**DEAR**

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## 4. Develop Tactical Modernization Blueprints – Plan to roll out modernization blueprint improvements in context with other systems

- The tactical sequencing plan provides a modernization blueprint to implement improvements and allows the DOI to track progress towards improvement targets.

**Start Date Target and **
**Durations**

**Dependencies Among Recommendations**

**Candidate Tactical Recommendations**

**DEAR**

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## 4. Develop Strategic Modernization Blueprints – Process

- Mission
- Goals

- Tactical
- Plans /
- TAA

- Overlap
- Analysis

- E-Gov
- FEA
- Guidance

**Future Project 4**

**System 10**

**System 1**

**System 4**

**System 5**

**System 2**

**System 3**

**Future Project 2**

**System 7**

**System 8**

**System 9**

**System 6**

**Future Project 1**

**Future Project 3**

- Strategic
- Modernization
- Blueprint
- Sequencing
- Plan

**Identified system grouping **_***plus***_** other related enterprise systems or initiatives**

**DEAR**

- Overall
- DOI
- Direction

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## 4. Develop Strategic Modernization Blueprints – Blueprint Plan

-  Enables progress towards target application architecture
-  Provides conceptual roadmap to target architecture
-  Identifies systems to be retired, consolidated, and re-engineered
-  Informs project, program, and portfolio management
-  Identifies investment proposals to be worked now to enable the future state

**Horizontal “Services”**

**Conceptual**
**Target**
**Architecture**

**E-Gov Linkages**

**Investment**
**Cycle**
**Phase**

**DEAR**

**Recommended**
**System**
**Transitions**

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## The Vision, Data Collection, and Assessment Phase Deliverables provide the basis for the delivery of the Modernization Blueprints

- Enterprise Architecture - Target Application Architecture (TAA)

- Transition
- Plan

**Phase 1 Deliverable:**
**TAA Document**

**Phase 3 & 4 Deliverables:**
**Modernization Blueprints**
**Architecture Presentations**

**Phase 2 Deliverables:**
**Scoping Document**
**Data Collection Documentation**

**Assessment**

**Actions**
**(Enhancements, **
**Efficiencies, Strategies)**

**Vision**

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## Conclusion

- Structured Enterprise Architecture Process
- Phase 1 – Establish vision
- Phase 2 – Critical to limit scope and constrain data collection
- Phase 3 – Assess to develop relative scores against TAA
- Phase 4 – Develop recommendations that can be implemented now and in a coordinated fashion to address the future
- Addresses Enterprise Architecture both from a top-down strategic approach and a bottom-up tactical approach
- Strategic approach makes mission alignment IT recommendations
- Tactical approach makes systems improvement recommendations that move systems incrementally toward target architecture and can be implemented with operations and maintenance budget dollars
- Business owners prioritize recommendations for implementation consistent with project management governance processes
- Recommend this process be used to develop modernization blueprints across the DOI

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## Document Abstract

| Doc Status | Rev. Date | Author/Editor | Description of edit | Filename/lineage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Final | 10.22.2003 | T. Fries | Presented to John Broderick | DOI Take-Action Approach Presentation V2.1.ppt |
| Final | 10.28.2003 | Lockwood | QA | doi_take_action_taa_031022.ppt |

| Key Words:
Application Technology Architecture | TAA DOI Tack Action Approach | FEAF Area:
Subject Function Code: | 
1230 | Contract #:  NBD020221
Task Number: 4 |
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| TAA take action approach overview briefing provided to John Broderick on 22 October 2003. |  |  |  |  |

**Revision History**

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