
How To Start and Organize A New Enterprise Architecture Team
Enterprise Architecture
May 19, 2021
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What’s the very first step to enabling Enterprise Architecture (EA)?
No, it’s not choosing a framework or picking an EA tool; before an organization does anything, they’ll need to actually have a team of enterprise architects.
How do organizations put together a well-functioning and capable team? EA is a more complicated domain than most other areas of business, with more specialized staffing requirements. Just hiring a few experienced architects and throwing them at a problem is likely to end in disaster.
In this eBook, we’ll explain precisely how to find, hire, organize and manage a team of enterprise architects, covering their skills & salaries, the supporting elements and the different methods of arranging architecture work.
Download now to find out:
- The 7 skill areas essential for a good enterprise architect
- How domain and technical architects fit in
- Arguments around the size of an EA team
- Why centralized and de-centralized teams can both work in the right situation