A Model-Based Method for the Evaluation of Project Proposal Compliance within EA Planning

The business model and IT infrastructure of organizations is continually changing. Trends like microservices and digital transformation demand an adaption of the business models and IT infrastructure in order to stay competitive. It is important to ensure the compliance of these new projects with the current goals and principles. The discipline of Enterprise Architecture Planning provides methods for the structured development of the business and IT of an organization. In this paper we propose a tool-supported method for EA planning to evaluate to the project compliance based on established models. Different analyses are used to support the architect during project planning. Gap and impact analysis are used to ensure the change consistency. The compliance with the current strategy is finally evaluated with view generation and metric calculation. Foundation of the method is a generic generic analysis architecture execution environment (A2E), that provides us with the required flexibility to adapt to different needs and meta models. The method and the proposed analyses are evaluated within a case study from a medium-sized software product company.