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whitepaper Partners, Not Police: Holding Enterprise Architects Accountable for Successful Project Delivery2008-03-18 IBM
  In this paper, learn about some fundamental challenges that IT teams face when working with enterprise architects, and find out how to apply enterprise architecture standards to application development and cooperate in project delivery to reach a desired outcome. The role of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is changing. Adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, and other technologies is changing the way software systems are built. Traditional EA concepts were developed before SOA and Web 2.0. They are more suited to large application development projects, rather than the agile, services-based development.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Open Architecture for the Enterprise, Part 1: Architectural Principles of Open Architecture - Be Cheap, Flexible, and Interoperable in 7 Easy Steps2007-12-12 IBM
  Enterprise Open Architecture (OA) is a pattern of nonfunctional requirements that can help one create and maintain more open and flexible complex systems, and systems of systems. Organizations with large, complex systems are looking to OA to help manage complexity, increase flexibility, and reduce their costs. Satisfying the OA nonfunctional requirements (open standards, modularity, interoperability, extensibility, reusability, composability, and maintainability) in system design and implementation is essential to OA at the enterprise level. In this paper, learn about the enterprise business drivers behind OA, and the OA nonfunctional requirements. Associated architectural principles that address the requirements are also covered.   
whitepaper Use Service-Oriented Decomposition to Meet Your Architectural Goals: Defining Services That Are Aligned With Your Business Model2007-10-16 IBM
  In this paper, design a set of services that defines an enterprise architecture blueprint to support business goals. Discover how hierarchical decomposition can help the user align services to support both current and future business functions. One also learns how to define interfaces for services as part of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) decomposition and use a semantic data model for maximum interoperability.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 4: Test (and Retest) Your Enterprise Architecture - Uncovering Weaknesses in Your Design2007-10-02 IBM
  After successfully building the new IT enterprise architecture, it's time to test it. Testing proves that the hard work the user and his team has put in really works. By stressing the new architecture, one will know where its weaknesses are and how well it will serve the enterprise. Now that one has built the enterprise architecture, one must test it. New technology, especially technology that's on the bleeding edge, will have some kinks to work out. Testing the Information Technology (IT) architecture is all-inclusive. Testing should include the hardware, applications, and the people responsible for those systems. Testing is a great way to break things and get paid for it. While no one ever wants their IT systems to break, odds are that they will.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 3: Design and Build Your Enterprise Architecture - Getting Your Enterprise Architecture Project Under Way2007-09-11 IBM
  Building great IT architecture takes time and planning. By assessing what is already in place, then visualizing what it should be, one can make great enterprise architecture a reality. To achieve the dream architecture, learn what to build, how to build it, and what to build it on in this paper. In this paper, learn what to build and how to build it. Let's assume that as the IT architect, one is not lucky enough to work in a clean environment - a place in which one gets to build the enterprise IT architecture from scratch. Like most IT architects, one will be building around a current environment in which good intentions stopped short of being perfect.   
whitepaper Enterprise Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Develop and Manage an Enterprise Architecture Repository - Create a Library of Reusable Development Models and Other Artifacts Using Rational Software2007-08-07 IBM
  When developing an enterprise architecture, multiple applications will require modeling support. To efficiently handle this task, one needs to establish a framework to contain and organize all modeling artifacts to enable collaborative work among dependent groups. This provides two main benefits: uniformity of model organization for maintenance and management of intermodel dependencies. In this paper, explore the structural and management issues around the creation of a robust enterprise architecture repository, which can allow the user to fully exploit the organization's existing assets.   
whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, Part 2: Similarities and Differences2007-05-21 IBM
  This three-part series of papers covers the similarities and differences between SOA and EA, and shows how to address the potential problems that result from their overlap based on a real customer engagement. In this engagement, IBM provides a broad range of business transformation and IT outsourcing services and manages all of the client's IT operations - mainframe, midrange, desktop, help desk, voice and data network, application development, and maintenance. The engagement required both SOA and EA to be developed concurrently.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Coaching Techniques for Dealing with Underperformers2006-11-29 08:17:40 Global Knowledge Network
  How, then, do we deal fairly and firmly with under-performing employees? The secret is to give effective feedback on a regular basis, link that feedback to a 6-12 month coaching plan, link individual coaching plans to your company's performance review process (if you have one), and, if the situation warrants, link that to progressive discipline   
whitepaper HP Trade-In Program for Government, Health, and Education2006-11-07 01:00:16 Hewlett-Packard
  This HP Program Brief introduces a technology trade-in program for federal, state, and local government bodies. The HP Trade-In Program offers government agencies the highest market values for their aging technology products. An alternative to the traditional Excess/Surplus methodology, the program complies with the General Service Administration's (GSA) Federal Property Management regulations and follows best practices in IT asset management. Download the paper to learn more about the HP Trade-In Program and how it can reduce your agency's technology upgrade costs.

  
whitepaper Business Process Management at Air Products and Chemicals Inc.2006-10-11 01:00:17 APQC
  Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APCI) has different processes in various areas of the world, and its ongoing attempt to converge and simplify these processes involves 19,900 employees in 30 countries. Leaders are now working to ensure those with similar jobs perform them in a similar way as a means to drive efficiency and effectiveness. APCI, a best-practice organization highlighted in the Best-practice Report "Business Process Management," recently shared with APQC how it gained a process focus.