Distributed Teams

Breaking the EA Bottleneck: Collaborative and Distributed Enterprise Modelling

When enterprise architecture is concentrated in the hands of a few central experts, it becomes a bottleneck — unable to keep pace with business change and increasingly disconnected from the people whose decisions it should inform. This 2007 tutorial by Graham McLeod, delivered at CAiSE in Trondheim, presents a practical framework for collaborative, distributed enterprise modelling: covering shared meta models, naming standards, stakeholder involvement, tool support, and a step-by-step process for building architectures across distributed teams and organisational boundaries.