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Enterprise Architecture (EA) is becoming an increasingly mature field of work, but many large organizations still struggle with implementing an integral and truly effective EA function. The literature provides a fragmented picture of the EA function, describing the various separate elements that make up the total package of activities, resources, skills, and competences of the EA delivery function. In our view, the EA function reaches beyond EA delivery and also includes the stakeholders, structures and processes involved with EA decision making and EA conformance. A holistic and integral view on the EA function is essential in order to properly assess an EA function on its performance, and to allow identifying the key points of improvement. In this article, we give such a description of the EA function, which provides the reference model in EA function performance assessments as part of our Normalized Architecture Organization Maturity Index (NAOMI) approach.
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van der Raadt, B., van Vliet, H. (2008). Designing the Enterprise Architecture Function. In: Becker, S., Plasil, F., Reussner, R. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures. Models and Architectures. QoSA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87879-7_7
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