We have stood up EA units in four government entities, several reaching Level 4.
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NORA- and TOGAF-aligned EA office, set up from scratch: placement, governance, operating model, and team handover.
The EA organisational unit is a permanent in-house function that governs technology and business decisions and stops architectural drift. We stand it up from scratch: organisational placement, internal structure with EA specialists across the six domains and national reference models (BRM, BXRM, DRM, ARM, TRM, SeRM), the EA Governance Model, the EA Operating Model on NORA's seven-stage Components Development Cycle, then training and full handover.
Read the existing structure, leadership priorities, and EA maturity.
Place the unit and define cross-entity relationships.
Roles, EA specialist headcount, and career tracks.
Committee, escalation paths, and review cadence.
Full enablement so the in-house team runs the unit.
We have stood up EA units in four government entities, several reaching Level 4.
We argue for reporting to the executive office, not the CIO — that saves years of conflict with project owners.
We hand over a functioning unit. The deliverable that matters is the first Governance Committee minutes.
IT delivers and operates solutions. The EA office defines architecture across business, technology, data, and security, and ensures new solutions align with strategy and standards.
4 to 8 months for full setup. An initial working version is live in 8 to 10 weeks.
Yes. We build it to match NORA requirements for Levels 2, 3, and 4, so the entity is ready to apply for DGA accreditation.
Level 2 needs at least two specialists, Level 3 at least four, Levels 4 and 5 at least six across the six EA domains, plus the unit manager.
Optional ongoing support via monthly or quarterly review sessions: validate outputs and track progress toward NORA accreditation.
In a first session we cover where the unit should report, where hiring starts, and how to take the establishment decision to leadership.
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