Week 7 - Future-State Architecture: Implementation Level

Future-State Architecture
(Implementation Level)

     At my organization, Enterprise Architecture often creates implementation roadmaps that show how we are going to incrementally deliver business value.  And as we complete each deliverable it explains how we plan to move from our current enterprise state to our future enterprise state.

Figure 1 - Business Outcome Driven Roadmap

     Beyond this level of detail, Enterprise Architects will engage "the heavyweights" which include Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Infrastructure UI/UX Designers, Networking and Security.  Collectively, we produce detailed implementation documents.  The Solution Architect is responsible for creating a solution sketch based on the information EA provides. The Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect will then meet with the other teams to ensure they have enough information to create detailed database models,network diagrams and as granular as documenting which blade server the application might be installed on.