Current state of governance roles in enterprise architecture management frameworks

Abstract

Only if the right people equipped with the necessary competencies fulfill the tasks correctly that should be done in their designated roles, the full concept of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) can be deployed. This topic has been discussed quite rarely in the past. Therefore, this work systematically analyzes manifold EAM literature sources like technical literatures and research papers as well as EA frameworks in order to derive a set of roles in EAM. The results were validated by dint of an expert interview with an EAM practitioner. This paper contributes to the EAM discipline by presenting a generalized overview of EAM roles and relates them to certain EAM tasks and required competencies. Finally, the proposed overview is validated by an expert interview.