September 2003 Mark Nelson [email protected]www.ICHnet.org/sail.htm 703 768 0400 A “Collaboratory” where Solutions Architectures are derived from industry best practices and lessons learned An emerging public/private partnership where PMs can get their programs to green in a conflict-free environment and risks of failure are mitigated This document is confidential and is intended solely for the use and information of the client to whom it is addressed.
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A “Collaboratory” where Solutions Architectures are derived from industry best practices and lessons learnedAn emerging public/private partnership where PMs can get their programs to green in a conflict-free environment and risks of failure are mitigated
This document is confidential and is intended solely for the use and information of the client to whom it is addressed.
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Recommended Actions
Review SAIL value proposition with Govt IT management team
Review challenges, inspect Approach, listed to agency advocates
Review past performance work leading to this initiative (OSD HA, DARPA,
Discovery)
Conduct Analysis of Alternatives; how does this compare with current approaches.
Identify current problem area for pilot. Solicit industry/agency participation
Initiate to low cost, low risk prototype with like minded agencies/industry partners
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The Need, Concept and Vision
Value Chain Participants
Outcomes
SAIL Concept of Operations
Value Proposition
“... the concept of the Interoperability Clearinghouse is sound and vital. Its developing role as an honest broker of all interoperability technologies, no matter what the source, is especially needed. Such efforts should be supported by any organization that wants to stop putting all of its money into maintaining archaic software and obtuse data formats, and instead start focusing on bottom-line issues of productivity and cost-effective use of information technology.” Assessment by Leading FFRDC, 2000
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Our mission to advance collaborative architecture mechanismsthat assure the successful modeling of enterprise
technical solutions aligned with business drivers
in an open, and conflict free, market place
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The Challenge: New IT Initiatives (eGov, Web Services, DHS) lack access to the right set of resources and industry best practices necessary to cycle through the pre-acquisition planning and architecture process
Lack of reliable and timely solution architecture data leads to implementation failure!– Research indicates that 34% of current IT failures (72%) is due to problems in aligning optimal technology with business needs (Dec 98 Information Week Feature
Article on why IT Fails)
– Fast paced IT market, combined with high failures rates, dictate a change in current technology adoption process
(Clinger/Cohen Act)
– Both business requirements and technology change before most agencies can get through traditional COTS
evaluation process; research, testing, prototyping. (AF SAB Report, April 2000)
– Security and Interoperability considerations rarely addressed, yet critical when implementing commercial
solution (White House Draft Cyber Security Strategy).
– Stake holders need a common criteria and standardized vetting process by which they
can communicate business needs to emerging technical solutions (IAC EA SIG)
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Critical Success Factors (CSF) for making architectures actionable for major IT programs
CIOs, PMs and Government Leaders need;
Business context of emerging standards and commercial offerings
More timely and cost effective mechanisms for accessing market capabilities in a conflict free environment
Clear and unambiguous architecture views that enable clear Stake Holder agreements (Value Chains, CBA) where business needs can be aligned with proven solutions
Means of linking architecture and acquisition processes while reducing risk of program delay and failure
Partnership with community of interests (agencies business lines, CIOs, Vendors, Integrators) to share best practices and implementation lessons learned.
IF THESE RESONATE WITH YOU, then SAIL is the vehicle for getting there
What assuressuccess?
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What are the proposed “products” of SAIL
A public/private partnership where agencies, vendors, integrators, and standards groups collaborate development and certification of Solution Architectures, Business Cases and AoA.
An Architecture Resource Center that bootstrap agencies understanding and application of emerging technologies in an architecture context
A virtual government/industry solution architecture certification lab that leverages the existing market capabilities and implementation experiences of industry
A non-profit advisory service that puts OMB reference models in the hands of PMs, Architectures, Business Lines and Integrators
A shared knowledge exchange where re-useable solution architecture templates are continuously updated by a large community of interests and stake holders
A new e-Gov and DHS initiative that provides agencies with the means of accessing critical expertise necessary to get from architectures to implementation reality.
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Value Chain Participants
Outcomes
SAIL Concept of Operations
Value Proposition
Excerpt from EDS Business Case Analysis: “The leveraging of our efforts with other parties through the formulation of a non-profit consortium is the most cost effective and efficient way of achieving the goal of interoperability assurance among heterogeneous systems. This ICH capability will augment our capability and provide us much more information about products, standards, and viable enterprise solution sets than we could ever realize through our own internal efforts.”
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Align business needs with critical integration expertise
Certify competency of EA methods and tools
Strengthen role in IT value chain
Leverage existing solutions partnerships
Enterprise Users
Ability to align business needs with critical standards, products, and integration services
Improved mapping of business needs to IT investment
Bootstrap application of FEA guidance to major programs
Reduce time and cost of pre-acquisition process
Reduced Solution Development Life-Cycle risk
Access to best practices in re-usable form
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Value Chain Participants
Outcomes
SAIL Concept of Operations
Value Proposition
“The ICH repository data and analysis methodologies was very helpful in supporting a quick turn around for [Information Assurance] section of COTS security products. Highly detailed ICH technology domain and product evaluation data comprised over 60% of this urgently needed [architecture] report”. GCPR, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman/PRC
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ICH is ushering in a new Value Chain Assessment approach to model, align, and validate complex business strategies into viable solutions
ITERATIVE/VALUE-BASED METHODOLOGY (weeks to months)
Strategy Profiling and Architecture Alignment
Business Modeling and Validation
• Develop proof-of-concept and pilot prototype applications• Measure value of short-term targets• Advance / refine as necessary
Iterative Prototyping
• Iteratively evaluate / refine prototypes• Capture and integrate citizen/customer feedback• Constant review and update supporting technologies
• Iterative refinement and validation of business strategy and I/T solutions
• Significantly shorter delivery timescales
• Avoidance of “big-bang” approaches
• Focused stakeholders and expectations
• Successful target realization
• Develop product / service strategy with citizen/customer• Identify linkages and alignment to Federal and Agency Enterprise Architectures• Define short-term targets to help momentum and assist change D
omain E
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Value is captured and measured in iterative implementationsBusiness strategy evolves based on lessons learned and customer feedback
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S.A.I.L.Market Place
Confidence
Level
Validation Resources (cost & time line)
Redundant Research and Testing
SAIL best practices collaboratory
High
Low
RiskDelta
Cost/timeDelta
Value Prop: Information Sharing and collaboration significantly reduces time, cost and risk transitioning from architectures to implementation reality
Acceptable Risk Level
Pressure to field solutions without vetted solution architectures is #1 cause of failure!
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SAIL Mechanisms: Accelerate the transition from architectures to implementation reality.
To bootstrap Agency’s application of FEAPMO Reference Models in architecting complex solutions
To mentor development of e-Gov/DHS solution architectures that are business driven, actionable and compliant
To establish a set of normalized, re-usable solution frameworks to accelerate the architecting, development and implementation of Cross-Agency e-Gov initiatives
To enable transforming of common e-business requirements into interoperable COTS solution suites that provide immediate ROI
To provide a formal process to enable adoption Component-Based Architectures;
To eliminate redundancy and reduce cost by providing agencies with a common, cross agency solution architecture and research lab.
To provide an joint government/industry clearinghouse of re-usable and normalized architecture “blueprints” in a common form (ie. OMG MDA, ebXML).
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The Need, Concept and Vision
Value Chain Participants
Outcomes
SAIL Concept of Operations
Value Proposition
“The ICH repository data and analysis methodologies was very helpful in supporting a quick turn around for [Information Assurance] section of COTS security products. Highly detailed ICH technology domain and product evaluation data comprised over 60% of this urgently needed [architecture] report”. GCPR, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman/PRC
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To assist agencies in the rapid assembly and realization of their eGov and DHS integration initiatives, a solution validation center is needed
Solution Architecture Center Objectives:– Act as an honest broker to balance strategic vision and reality
– Capture business requirements in OMB Reference Model terms (BRM, PRM, SCRM, DRM, TRM - A130)
– Enable greater stake holder participation and oversight (congress, CIO, CFO, COO, users, suppliers, industry partners)
– Streamline business case to solution architecture process (S803)
– Provide industry outreach - leverage standards, COTS and commercial best practices (OMG A119 compliance)
– Create a “mock-up” of the solution that validate stakeholder needs prior to acquisition
– Enable multiple agencies/states to collaborate on a common solution architecture.
– Share lessons learned and solution architecture templates for reduced risk, and faster time to market
– Protect stake holders from Conflict of Interests concerns during the planning and architecture process!
Step 1Identify Solution Architecture to begin strategy realization
Step 3Rollout to stakeholders for validation of strategy
Step 4Define production requirements, release for production build
Note – The Prototyping/Solution Center does NOT build the
Production Version
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SAIL Steps Agency given SAIL lab business requirements, existing TRM, limitations
SAIL Industry partners help normalize into BRM format, identify related best practices
SAIL helps develop and reuse normalized SRM templates that align with business needs
Agency confirms SRM components. Creates balanced scorecard and common criteria.
ICH helps agency issue RFI to industry using SRM templates. SAIL helps with outreach via standards partners and other outreach vehicles.
Prospective offers participate in SAIL down select process. Offerers fund own vetting process and provide normalized product profiles based on SRM templates.
SAIL partners performs down select process based on vendor submission and analysis of alternatives
SAIL partners who make down select participate in funded prototype development resulting in at least two approaches
Based on success of efforts, govt. issues RFP for major deployment.
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How SAIL supports existing EA ProcessUsing re-usable solution templates
Architecture Roles
Validation Points
BusinessRequirements
SAIL Assessment Framework
1
NormalizeBRM Language
2
AssessBusiness Case
Proposal
AssessTechnologyCompliance
Aligned per IT Strategy
Alignment
(SELECT)
DevelopBusiness
Case
ComplianceAssessment
5
(SELECT)
ProjectInitialization
Assess Waiver/Exception Request
EnterpriseDesign
Patterns
Acceptable
Compliance
UnacceptableConformance
BRM Templates
Unacceptable
Compliance
Proposed Concept
Report
TRMStandards
4
EvaluateArchitectureCompliance
Audit Reports
SAIL SolutionTemplates
Disapproved
3
Reusable Best Practices
Templates
Reusable SRM Templates
Industry SelfVetting Process
Reusable SRM Templates
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Accelerated version of ICH’s EA IV&V Process
Normalize BRM
Business Models
Solution Exist?Align and Validate Solution
Model New Solution
Solution Architecture Validation and Demonstrations
Yes
no
MDAService
Components
BusinessStrategy
Validation
SolutionValidation
Best PracticesAlignment
Agency PMs
Business Requirements,
Policy, &Guidance
COTS & IntegrationCapabilities
OMB Approved(300b)
BestPracticesModels
ValueChain
Analysis
Bill ofMaterials
NormalizedSolution
Frameworks
MDAService
Components
Reusable COTSComponent Architecture
Templates
CertifiedSolution
Architects
AoAComplete?
Yesno
Solution ArchitectureTemplates
Industry Best Practices &
Standards
Business Patterns
Pre-ValidatedReference Models
BRM PRM
SRM TRM
DRM
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SAIL “exchange” uses SRM to enable partners to model and align business needs to technical solutions
BRMTechnicalSolution & Metrics
Application Layer 1
Common InfrastructureLayer M
BRMServiceElements & Metrics(SRM)
Appl Service Components Layer 1
InfrastructureService ComponentsLayer N
BRMBusinessDrivers & Metrics
Core Business Mission Objectives
BusinessProcesses &Infrastructure
Solu
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Rep
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Associated MetricsReference Models
Performance Metrics
Effectiveness/Efficiency
Interoperability/Security
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Outcomes
SAIL Concept of Operations
Value Proposition
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, DEPUTY CIO: "Since the value of the ICH to our programs increases rapidly through results sharing, we encourage the defense community and IT industry to participate directly in the public service initiative in terms of sponsorship and lessons
learned"
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Conclusion
Operationalizing the FEA Reference Models can be accelerated by a partnership between government and industry
– SAIL increases the number of vested (and educated) stake holders in Solution Architecture definition process
– SAIL increases likelihood of making architectures an actionable business tool that enables true transformation
– SAIL enables sharing of existing testing and implementation results to better assure implementation success
– SAIL provides a high integrity registry of market capabilities in a business value context
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Case Studies: Early adopters demonstrate benefits
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Challenge: develop enterprise architecture for patient record integration
Applied ICH Architecture Immersion Program
– Developed architecture validation criteria to GCPR Program Office
– Developed product selection guidelines for Prime Contractor
– Applied ICH Architecture Assurance Method
Outcomes
– Enabled award based on unambiguous design specs
– Augmented UML/MDA to address legacy and COTS capabilities
– Ensured viability of chosen technologies
Met HIPPA requirements
Met security requirements
Provided integration framework for web infrastructure
– Assured implementation success
Case Study: World Largest Healthcare Project; $4.1 Billion Govt Wide e-Healthcare program
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Challenge: Select enterprise web infrastructure to integrate stovepipe applications
Applied ICH Solutions Validation Program
– Performed architecture baseline assessment
– Provided guidance and selection support for Web-app server, VPN, portal, last-mile wireless connectivity
Outcomes
– Validated requirements against marketplace offerings
– Improved confidence in technology decisions
Delayed VPN implementation
Purchased Web application server, database, and media products
Deployed system without a hitch
– Significantly reduced time/cost to implementation
Case Study: World Largest Media Company; Discovery Channel
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Case Study: World Largest Intelligence Agency
Challenge: means of integrating diverse communities via the web Applied Architecture Validation Program
– Developed common criteria for emerging portal market
– Evaluated selection of Enterprise Portal for pilot project
– Developed impact analysis on enterprise architecture
– Maintained view of evolving marketplace
Outcomes
– Enhanced and normalized portal selection criteria
– Identified key features/functional areas for testing
– Applied commercial best practices for successful production rollout
Improved understanding and alignment of technology to problem domain
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Case Study: GSA Financial Systems Enterprise Architecture
Challenge: making EA actionable, eliminate redundant Financial Mgt. Systems Applied Value Chain Analysis
– Developed metrics for FMS implementation success
– Evaluated current EA products
– Developed Value Chain assessment model
– Moved EA effort into CFO office
Outcomes
– Enhanced and normalized existing EA products
– Identified key business processes required for implementation
– Enabled senior management to interact with EA process for the first time.
– Helped GSA go from “red” to “green” based on Value Chain effort
– Identified over $100 M in potential savings via ICH Value Chain Approach
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Backup Slides
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Value Chain Benefit: Agency Leadership, Congress, GAO & OMB
Congress, Agency Leadership: COO’s, CFO’sAuditors
Provides view into planning process Establishes metrics for mission fulfillment Aligns IT Capital investment with Agency Mission Leverages industry best practices/lessons learned Creates Understandable & Actionable Project
Transition Plans Catalyst for implementing President’s Management
Agenda
PoliciesPolicies
ComplianceCompliance
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Value Chain Benefit: CIO, CTO, Chief Architects, Chief Security Officer
IT Management: CIO/CTO/CAO:
Identifies viable COTS solution frameworks Quickly Models Architectures and Inferences to Identify Linkages
with Strong and Weak “Track Records”. Saves and Shares Models using common architecture terms
(MDA) Provides “What If” Modeling and Analysis Provides In-Context, Real-Time, Just-In-Time Research Data Use of SAIL Feeds Data Back to Knowledge Base
IT Program PlansIT Program Plans
AoA, Resolved COIAoA, Resolved COI
Congress, Agency Leadership: COO’s, CFO’sAuditors
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Value Chain Benefit: Solution Integrator & Consultants
Provides Solid Evidence for making COTS decisions Shares Integration Success Record with Potential New
Customers (Who are Looking!) Finds Potential COTS Component Matches Based on Prior
Similar Context Successes Provides “What If” Modeling and Analysis for component
composition Provides Design Differentiation to Enhance Quality Marketing Use of Tool Feeds Data Back to Knowledge Base
Integrators
Congress, Agency Leadership: COO’s, CFO’sAuditors
IT Management: CIO/CTO/CAO:
IntegrationIntegrationSkillsSkills
Re-usableRe-usableBluePrintsBluePrints
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Value Chain Benefit: Standards Bodies and Industry Groups
Standards & Industry Groups
Integrators
Captures Use-Cases that Support and Justify Standards Models Correct Use of Standards in selection COTS
products Links Pertinent Standards to Products
Features/functions Provides Dynamic, but Solid Compliance Record
(A119) Enable collaboration between disparate industry
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Example: Shared research reduces life-cycle times and risk
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Example: Aligning technical needs with Business Drivers
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Example 2: Creating a balance score card for COTS selection
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Open Source Architectures: Building on ICH’s COTS Component Repository
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S.A.I.L. Public/Private PartnershipGetting agencies to “green” in a conflict-free zone
A collaborative, public service initiative where agencies can share insights into emerging technologies and testing data in a conflict free zone
Means of facilitating development of business cases, OMB Reference Models, and analysis of alternatives (product/standards choices)
A public/private partnership to establish directory of proven and interoperable solution templates (and necessary integration capabilities)
Industry supported initiative that puts commercial offerings (both products and services) in contextual architecture terms simply and quickly based on implementation/testing best practices data
Clearinghouse of re-usable (and normalized) architecture frameworks for both government and industry use
A consortium of standards bodies, vendors, and users working together to advance President’s Management Agenda; FEA-PMO, e-Gov, A119, A130, DoD 5000 series