Objectives:

• Estimate, model, and manage the complexity of the roadmap projects defined within an Enterprise Architecture (EA) exercise by using a fine-grained approach.       This involves the analysis of several of the artifacts and dependencies present among the target architecture domains.
• Measure the effectiveness of an IT architecture through a projects roadmap complexity measurement
• Define and evaluate strategies to re-define the projects roadmap to reduce the complexity for implementing the projects
• Validate the Simple Iterative Partitions (SIP)  methodology [1] in real EA project
• Establish a relation between time measure units and Structural Complexity Measure (SCM) units [2] estimated for a projects roadmap in a EA project

[1] R. Sessions, “Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises”, Microsoft Press, 2008.
[2] Sessions, R.: The IT complexity crisis: Danger and opportunity. ObjectWatch (2009).

URL:http://www.objectwatch.com/whitepapers/ITComplexityWhitePaper.pdf