This section summarizes the results of the AISA project. For an overall discussion, see the Lessons Learned section. After a brief overview, the reports are listed below, organized by type in separate tables.
The project has reached the main objectives that were set: to study the characteristics of both the architecture planning and development processes of high quality and maturity and the EA and SA of high quality and maturity. These research themes were clarified with the help of several sub-topics (constituting the main contents of this publication).
The multifaceted nature of architecture work was clarified with the help of
Research related to the evaluation of architecture work dealt with charting
On a more practical level, evaluation practices were studied and especially
Because the architecture work is such a large area and many evaluation targets exist, the project had to focus on few evaluation targets for further scrutiny. These targets were the following:
Finally, risks and the decision-making in architecture work were briefly addressed to provide a theoretical view to these issues to support the planning of risk management and decision-making practices in organizations.
It should be noticed that many of the above topics are creditably covered by the dissertation Evaluation and Measurement in Enterprise and Software Architecture Management.
In the Lessons Learned section, the significance of the results and the overall contribution of the project is discussed.
The published papers are presented in aplhabetical order. Due to copyright issues some of the papers cannot be included in this CD-rom publication.
Title |
Author(s) |
Where and When Published |
| A Framework to Support Business-IT Alignment in Enterprise Architecture Decision Making. | Hämäläinen Niina and Liimatainen Katja | In Proceedings of the EBRF 2007 Conference 'Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society', September 25-27, 2007, Jyväskylä, Finland. |
| A Goal-Oriented Way to Define Metrics for Enterprise Architecture Program. | Hämäläinen Niina and Kärkkäinen Tommi | In Journal of Enterprise Architecture (vol.4, nr. 1), 2008. |
| Analysis of the Current State of Enterprise Architecture Evaluation Methods and Practices. | Martin Hoffmann | In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2007), September 20-21, 2007, Montpellier, France. |
| Architectural Work Status: Challenges and Developmental Potential - A Case Study of Three Finnish Business Enterprises. | Niemi Eetu | In Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science (ACS'06), December 16-18, 2006, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. |
| Defining Enterprise Architecture Risks in Business Environment. | Niemi Eetu and Ylimäki Tanja | In Proceedings of the EBRF 2007 conference 'Research Forum to Understand Business in Knowledge Society', September 25-27, 2007, Jyväskylä, Finland. |
| Enterprise Architecture Benefits: Perceptions from Literature and Practice. | Niemi Eetu | In Proceedings of the 7th IBIMA Conference on Internet & Information Systems in the Digital Age, December 14-16, 2006, Brescia, Italy. |
| Enterprise Architecture Compliance: The Viewpoint of Evaluation. | Ylimäki Tanja, Niemi Eetu and Hämäläinen Niina | In Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2007), September 20-21, 2007, Montpellier, France. |
| Enterprise Architecture Evaluation Components. | Niemi Eetu and Ylimäki Tanja | In Proceedings of the 11th International HAAMAHA Conference, July 9-12, 2007 Poznan, Poland. |
| Enterprise Architecture Process of a Telecommunication Company - A Case Study on Initialization. | Andersin Ari and Hämäläinen Niina | In Proceedings of the 11th International HAAMAHA Conference, July 9-12, 2007 Poznan, Poland. |
| Enterprise Architecture Stakeholders - A Holistic View. | Niemi Eetu | In Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA. |
| Enterprise Architecture Work Overview in Three Finnish Business Enterprises. | Niemi Eetu | In WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics (vol. 3, nr. 9), 2006. |
| Potential Critical Success Factors for Enterprise Architecture. | Ylimäki Tanja | In Journal of Enterprise Architecture (vol.2, nr. 4), 2006. |
| Quality Evaluation Question Framework for Assessing the Quality of Architecture Documentation. | Hämäläinen Niina and Markkula Jouni | In Proceedings of the International BCS Conference on Software Quality Management (SQM 2007). August 1-2, 2007, Tampere, Finland. |
| Quality Management Activities for Software Architecture Process. | Hämäläinen Niina | In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), February 13-15, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. |
| Success and Failure Factors for Software Architecture. | Hämäläinen Niina, Markkula Jouni, Ylimäki Tanja and Sakkinen Markku | In Proceedings of the 6th IBIMA Conference on Managing Information in the Digital Economy, June 19-21, 2006, Bonn, Germany |
| The Role of Architecture Evaluations in ICT-companies. | Hämäläinen Niina, Ylimäki Tanja and Niemi Eetu | In Proceedings of the International Business Information Management Conference (6th IBIMA), June 19-21, 2006, Bonn, Germany. |
| Towards a Generic Evaluation Model for Enterprise Architecture. | Ylimäki Tanja | In Journal of Enterprise Architecture (vol. 3, nr. 3), 2007. |
AISA project reports are presented in alphabetical order.
Presentations related to AISA Project and its results are provided in alphabetical order.
Title |
Author(s) |
Type and date |
| Evaluation
and Measurement in Enterprise and Software Architecture Management.
Keywords: enterprise architecture, software architecture, evaluation, measurement, metric |
Hämäläinen Niina | Dissertation, Department of Mathematical
Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, 2008.
To be publicly defended on April 3, 2008. |
| Quality Evaluation of
Software Architecture with Application to OpenH.323 Protocol
Keywords: quality control, quality attributes, metrics, software
architecture evaluation, ATAM, telecommunication, H.323 Provided by the Hasso Plattner Institute (University of Potsdam, Germany) in pdf format. |
Hoffmann Martin | Master's Thesis, Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, 2007. |