Enterprise architecture practices with responsibilities

The following goals are typically entrusted to the Architecture Board:

• Establishing the basis for all architecture-related decisions
• Maintaining consistency across sub-architectures
• Setting targets for reusing components
• Creating a flexible EA to leverage new technologies and meet changing business requirements
• Ensuring that compliance with the architecture is enforced
• Initiating a maturity level improvement of the architecture discipline in the organization
• Ensuring that architecture-based development is implemented
• Enhancing the visibility of escalation capabilities for out-of-bounds decisions

The following responsibilities should be addressed from an operational standpoint:

• Monitoring and controlling all aspects of the Architecture Contract
• Holding regular meetings
• Managing and implementing the architectures in an effective and consistent manner
• Resolving escalated...