Evaluating project compliance during EA planning: a model-based semi automatic method for enterprise architecture planning

New business and technology demands as well as Merger & Acquisitions force organizations to adapt their business models and IT infrastructure in order to stay competitive. Ensuring the compliance of new projects with the current goals and principles is an essential task. The discipline of Enterprise Architecture Planning provides methods for the structured development of the business and IT of an organization. The established models of the current and target architecture are used to provide the respective information for decision making at a sufficient aggregation level. We propose a model-based and tool-supported method for EA planning and in specific for the evaluation of project compliance. We utilize gap and impact analysis to ensure change consistency as well as view generation and metric calculation for evaluation purposes. The analyses are executed within a generic analysis architecture execution environment (A2E), that supports the customization of the analyses as well as different EA meta models. The method and the proposed analyses are evaluated within a case study from a medium-sized software product company.