Strategy

Executive Summary

March 2015

NSW Government Enterprise Architecture

Contact

ea@finance.nsw.gov.au

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N S W G O V E R N M E N T I C T S T R AT E G Y

“Enterprise Architecture has been identified as a key enabling

capability for a sector‐wide approach to ICT. Government will

develop a framework for enterprise architecture to reduce

duplication, facilitate information sharing, and improve

inter‐operability across agencies.

The framework will bring together practical guidance and

standards to support agency level enterprise architecture.”

Digital+ , the 2014-15 update of the NSW Government ICT

Strategy, identifies Enterprise Architecture as a new initiative and

includes the following statement:

NSW Government Enterprise Architecture (NSW GEA) encompasses all aspects of enterprise architecture activity at the business,

information, application and technology infrastructure layers across the NSW Government in support of the NSW Government ICT Strategy.

Key focus points for Enterprise Architecture support of the ICT Strategy are ICT solution rationalisation and the planning, design and delivery

of improved Key Service Capabilities including citizen focused services.

The focus of the 2015 – 2016 NSW Government Enterprise Architecture Strategy is to establish the capability foundations that improve the

way Enterprise Architecture is done across NSW Government and to commence connecting this capability to deliver on the NSW

Government ICT Strategy. The Strategy is not about creating a centre-led, top down ‘Master Architecture’. It is about providing direction

and practical guidance to accelerate the development of agency Enterprise Architecture capability and enabling a common, intra and inter

agency approach to the design of digital government. An approach that assists clusters and agencies to be more effective in implementing

the NSW Government ICT Strategy, whilst supporting the autonomy and agility required by clusters and agencies.

The strategy has been developed in collaboration with a representative set of agency personnel and was approved by the ICT Leadership

Group in March 2015.

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N S W G O V E R N M E N T E N T E R P R I S E A R C H I T E C T U R E F R A M E W O R K

NSW Government Enterprise Architecture Framework

Initiatives Forums Work Products

Policies &

Standards Toolkit Strategy

‘An EA Framework is a foundational structure. or set of structures, which can be used for developing a broad range of different architectures.

It should describe a method for designing a target state of the enterprise in terms of a set of building blocks, and for showing how the

building blocks fit together. It should contain a set of tools and provide a common vocabulary. It should also include a list of recommended

standards and compliant products that can be used to implement the building blocks.

Ref: TOGAF 9

The proposed framework provides a structure for organising NSW Government Enterprise Architecture. It reflects the Enterprise

Architecture Strategy, is informed by industry insight and has been developed in consultation with agency representatives.

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‘as a service’

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NSW Government EA Goal NSW Government EA Strategy NSW Government EA Initiatives Agency EA Service Capability

Support the planning, design and

delivery of improved Key Service

Capabilities

- Services Anytime, Anywhere

- Community and Industry

Collaboration

- Citizen focused service

- Better Information Sharing

- Financial and Performance

Management

Support opportunities for

consolidation and re-use

- Identification of duplicate or

fragmented services and assets

(business functions, information,

applications, technology

infrastructure)

Support alignment of investment with

strategy & goals

- Architecture supporting the

alignment of ICT investment to

strategy

Support the effective management of

ICT related business change

- Informing the business change

roadmap

- Reducing project delivery risk

- Improved communications

Connecting the value of

Enterprise Architecture to

NSW Government

Enterprise Architecture support for ICT

Investment

Establish use of a standard set of enterprise

architecture processes and deliverables integrated

into the NSW Government ICT investment process.

Whole of Government EA reporting

Initial Whole of Government EA reporting is used to

inform and guide EA effort in support of the ICT

Strategy.

Architecture Blueprints

Delivers Current and Target State business,

information, application and technology

architecture blueprints at Enterprise, Domain and

Solution Architecture levels.

Architecture Roadmaps

Identification and high level scheduling of

initiatives to move from current to target state

architectures. Includes Architecture Portfolio

Management to evaluate and provide

recommendations as to priorities for change based

upon the business fit and technical condition of IT

assets and services.

Solution Architecture Delivery

This service delivers the Solution Architecture for IT

Projects. It is the high level design and specification

of a working, fit for purpose and IT standards

aligned solution to meet the business needs in the

optimum way. Includes solution options analysis

and consulting required to take an idea through its

conceptual formation and initial solution options

assessment.

Architecture Governance

A service to manage the Architecture Governance

including development of policies and operation of

governance bodies to ensure that IT initiatives are

assessed for compliance to the enterprise

architecture.

Architecture Strategy Development

Defines the required architecture value proposition

and strategies, analyses the demand for

architecture services and builds the plan and

framework for development and delivery of EA

services.

Develop NSW Government

Enterprise Architecture

capability

Community of practice

Establish and facilitate a CoP for EA practitioners to

share experience, knowledge, ideas and information

in support of agency, cluster and whole of

government ICT.

Toolkit

Establish a service to create and publish a NSW GEA

‘Toolkit’ comprising guidelines, processes,

techniques, artefact templates, reference models,

guidelines, case studies.

EA Education

Develop awareness and access to training for

enterprise architecture.

Policies

Where agreed by agencies and the ICT Leadership

group, develop policies that direct agencies to

implement agreed business rules for Enterprise

Architecture

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NSW GOVERNMENT ENTERPR ISE ARCHITECTURE ROADMAP

› The roadmap comprises a series of initiatives to progressively develop EA capability to enable whole of government support for the ICT

Strategy.

› Delivery of the EA capability initiatives will be based on a recurring cycle of time boxed and prioritised ‘sprints’.

EA support for the ICT investment process

Community of practice

Whole of Government EA Reporting

Awareness & Education

Policies

Toolkit

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T H E C H A N G E

Implementation of the Strategy will contribute to changing the way NSW designs, plans and implements digital government.

From To

• No clear guidance on how to identify and plan for

Information and ICT re-use and consolidation.

• Defined EA framework guides agencies to more effective

implementation of the ICT Strategy.

• Inconsistent or missing architecture practises inhibit the

design and delivery of quality key service capabilities.

• The efficiency and quality of key service design and

implementation is improved through the contribution of

practical enterprise architecture.

• Lack of common language for describing the NSW

Government ICT environment.

• Common language and artefacts for describing and

communicating the NSW ICT environment.

• No facilitation of whole of government enterprise

architecture communication and sharing.

• Facilitated Community of practice enables enterprise

architecture communication and sharing across whole of

government.

• Disparate levels of awareness of what practical Enterprise

Architecture is and how it enables digital business.

• Improved awareness and skills in Enterprise Architecture as an

enabling capability for NSW Government.

• Limited visibility of enterprise architecture effort across

whole of NSW government.

• Stakeholders are better informed and aware of enterprise

architecture effort across NSW Government.

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A design & planning discipline for business.

EA processes are integrated within the

Plan and Build phases of the

Business IT Value Chain.

EA products are Designs in the form of

Blueprints, and Plans in the form of Roadmaps.

The EA effort is value driven - creating faster, cheaper, better

business change.

EA scope includes Business, Information, Application and

Technology Architecture.

Technology Architecture

Application Architecture

Information Architecture

Business Architecture

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D E L I V E R I N G S T R AT E G I C A R C H I T E C T U R E

A key focus of the Strategy is to engage with and provide guidance to agencies to create views of target architectures and roadmaps

that illustrate the change. Business Capability Model

Application Architecture Model

Technology Architecture Model

Application Architecture Roadmap

EA Governance Workflow Model

TOGAF The Open Group Architecture Framework

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L E V E L S O F N S W G O V E R N M E N T E N T E R P R I S E A R C H I T E C T U R E

The NSW Government Enterprise Architecture will assist clusters to use Enterprise Architecture at varying levels of scope within the

NSW Government business operating model.

The Whole of Government level is enterprise architecture used by multiple agencies across multiple clusters.

• For example the NSW Identity Management Hub.

The Cluster level is enterprise architecture used by multiple agencies within a single cluster.

• For example the Transport for NSW ERP.

The Agency level is enterprise architecture used by a single agency within a single cluster.

• For example Police Mobility.

Thank You!