… Using collaboration with a Business-Centric Methodology
to Implement Effective Business Agreements.

The presentation will describe how you can use a business integration methodology being applied at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). The journey begins with establishing and outlining your organization’s Vision, Goals, and Strategy for achieving precise communications among your primary stakeholders. Then, the task is expanded to identify and manage your information assets, their associated business metadata, context and ontology. These technology-neutral artifacts become the building blocks for assembling reusable components to be used in coupled communications between stakeholders. Once these artifacts are identified and documented, we can begin the work of obtaining the infrastructure layers to support either the existing “as is” method of doing business or migrate to technology-oriented or business-centric mechanisms to deliver business agility.

The journey is constrained by a Business Centric Methodology that outlines management criteria to guide you through the myriad of choices and trade-offs you will have to make in order to achieve your organizations tailored vision. The result is tailoring your business message communications to your business partners’ desired semantics and syntax. The integrated information architecture can enhance your organization’s performance and agility to deliver the ultimate business metric, “Customer Best Value”.

Attendees will learn about:

1. Integration challenges – its not just about technology.
2. Emerging roles which business professionals can play in architecture, semantic integration, and new business opportunities.
3. Defining a set of “Principles of Interoperability” and how to use them in your organization.
4. Techniques for achieving precise collaborative communications among heterogeneous stakeholders.
5. Using an information architecture model to manage your business artifacts and associated metadata, context and ontology.
6. Trade-offs to consider when evaluating a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) migration.
7. An indicator to determine whether the term ‘agile’ is being used as a platitude within your organization.
8. Business Centric Methodology to guide you on your journey.

Mike Lubash

DFAS

703.607.1166