An Approach Based on Language Ontology and Serious Play Methodologies to Improve the Participation and Validation of Enterprise Architecture Structural Models

Abstract

In the definition of Enterprise Architecture (EA) business and technology specialists participate, being the former the ones who know models of their endeavor and to whom the EA models are not natural and include complex issues that only the specialists understand. The detection of any inconsistency or gap can take place, in the worst case, during the implementation of technological solutions or, in more fortunate cases, at earlier stages. Counting with tools that facilitate mutual understanding using alternative models that bring closer team competences and the convergence of ideas and interests of both groups, is a challenge. This proposal presents how language ontology combined with strategy construction models of Lego Serious play in real time are a contribution in the definition and implementation of Enterprise Architecture. The validation is ratified with two projects, each one having made progress on its own: one with the Municipality de Cuenca, Ecuador, and the other with the General Coordination of Transantiago.