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Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: Gap Analysis / EA Views

I was given a couple couple questions I was hoping you all could help
me with...

1) Please briefly describe the key inputs and activities for assessing
a current state architecture.

I believe the answer to the first part is about Gap analysis.... I
answered that the inputs were:

* business requirements
* current-state architecture - documentation, models, etc.
* future-state architecture

We then look must look at our current state architecture and the
future-state architecture to see where we fall short of fulfilling the
project requirements. This is known as gap analysis.
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What are the main views that make up a complete picture of enterprise
architecture?

I started answering this question by describing the 4+1 View model,
but upon second glance at the question, remembering it was Enterprise
Architecture, thought this might be asking about the architectural
layers - presentation, business logic and integration layers
(persistence and other information systems)...

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

John