Investigative Architecture – Making Sense of Your Enterprise

The Open Group Conference, Chicago.  A foundational skill for an architect is the capability to rapidly assess and document “as is” and proposed solution architectures. The challenge lies in the typical state of enterprise knowledge regarding the systems – a myriad of internal and external informations sources at all levels of quality and completeness. Critical to rapidly converting this sea of information into useable knowledge requires a repeatable, structured approach for gathering information from internal stakeholders and documents and performing focused research for publicly available product and industry information.