Review of Evaluations of Enterprise Architecture

Anders Tell, Martin Henkel

2024

Abstract

The use of information which is useful for collaborating stakeholders has encouraged and enabled businesses to advance. Enterprise architecture (EA) provides frameworks and methods with information products that aim to satisfy stakeholders’ concerns. For positive effects to emerge from using EA, it is necessary, during EA development and evaluation, to examine the work stakeholders do, their practices, how these practices relate to each other, how EA deliverables contribute to stakeholders’ work, and how EA information products are (co)-used in stakeholders practices. This paper presents a systematic literature review on evaluations of EA. The review aims to gain insights related to aspects of EA stakeholder practices and relationships that were considered essential to evaluate and how different stakeholders contributed to evaluations of EA. The insights are intended to inform the design of the Work-oriented Approach (WOA), which aims to enrich EA stakeholder analysis and co-use of EA information products. The results of the survey show an uneven contribution by stakeholders and that stakeholder practices and relationships were not clearly defined and evaluated, leaving uncertainties about whether relevant stakeholders evaluated EA benefits. The lack of stakeholder voices and details provides challenges to the validity of results relating to the organisational benefits of using EA.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tell A. and Henkel M. (2024). Review of Evaluations of Enterprise Architecture. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-696-5, SciTePress, pages 226-237. DOI: 10.5220/0012734100003687

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase24,
author={Anders Tell and Martin Henkel},
title={Review of Evaluations of Enterprise Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2024},
pages={226-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012734100003687},
isbn={978-989-758-696-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Review of Evaluations of Enterprise Architecture
SN - 978-989-758-696-5
AU - Tell A.
AU - Henkel M.
PY - 2024
SP - 226
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0012734100003687
PB - SciTePress