Week 10 - Gap Analysis, Migration Planning, and Creating the EA Roadmap

Gap Analysis

     Once you understand and document your current state and document what your future state will look like, you can perform a gap analysis.  A gap analysis is used to determine what will take to transition from current to future states. At my organization, once a gap analysis is performed, the application teams can provide a level of effort (LOE) on what it will take to fill the gap.

Migration Planning

     Migration planning is sometimes referred to as Implementation planning.  Migration plans describe in detail how you will transition from your current to future states.  Migration plans typically breakdown the work into sequential and incremental steps that need to be taken to reach your desired future state.

EA Roadmap

     An Enterprise Architecture Roadmap, is typically a graphical artifact that depicts at a high level, incremental capabilities that will be delivered over a period of time.  Below are two versions of EA roadmaps that I have used at my organization.

Figure 1 - Business Outcome Driven Roadmap

Figure 2 - Customer Solutions CRM Roadmap

Bagola, C. (2015). Business Driven Outcome Roadmap [Diagram]. Trappe, PA.
Bagola, C. (2013). Customer Solutions CRM Roadmap [Diagram]. Trappe, PA.