Hanging out with Peter De Meo

The last couple of weeks I have been hanging out with the EA-oracle Peter De Meo from IBM to see how he works with federal clients. Peter leads the US Federal Public Sector EA practice. He is currently developing the EA for the Federal Aviation Administration, a custom enterprise EA portal for the Department of Transportation, and he is providing EA subject matter expertise to various other federal clients. His focus is on how to operationalize existing EAs for managing investment portfolios and driving solution architecture requirements.
It has been interesting to participate in meetings with clients and talking to Peter about EA. Especially, it has been interesting to see how the effectiveness of EA efforts are largely dependent, not on the quality of the EA, but on the maturity of the organizations to embrace EA governance. I think that a lot of the EA efforts that we are seeing blossom in Denmark will have to go though a steep learning curve before they are successful. Public agencies must be ready to embrace the EA frameworks and associated governance requirements – it will be interesting to follow the Danish development based on my experiences here in the US.