Traceability in enterprise architecture

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The three fifteen step plan for solving your enterprise architecture issue is as follows:

1. Hire a real enterprise architect
2. Establish only ‘dotted-line’ reporting to the enterprise architect
3. Use the phrase ‘enterprise architecture’ only to refer to ‘enterprise business architecture’
4. Establish ‘planned traceability’ from the EA to project documentation
5. Establish ‘planned traceability’ from the EA to system documentation
6. Establish ‘planned traceability’ from the EA to software development life-cycle (SDLC) documentation
7. Hold a workshop to established a baseline enterprise [business] architecture
8. Schedule reviews of traceability each 6 months for each application system
9. Include traceability reviews in the organizations project methodology at each phase gate
10. Schedule a review of the baseline enterprise [business] architecture yearly
11. Report, monthly, all EA traceability analytics
12. Publish a quarterly analysis of EA traceability analytics
13. Publish a whitepaper on how to interpret EA traceability analytics
14. Co-sponsor at least one project concept / idea per year with a business growth outcome based on EA-level transformation
15. Sponsor at least one project concept / idea per year with a IT efficiency outcome based on EA analysis and / or improving one or more measured based on traceability analytics