Our role
SolArch can perform the following (combination of) roles to support your business projects, applicable for all expertises.
SolArch can perform the following (combination of) roles to support your business projects, applicable for all expertises.
Different methods, solutions and expertise require
Depending on the phase of your project, SolArch can play a different role that most fits with that phase’s goal. Creating awareness, translating business needs to a roadmap of activities, architecture design, facilitating requirements engineering workshops, performing tool selections and proof-of-concepts, managing projects, implementing a new service capability in your organization, all have their specific aspects that may require a different role to play. And good communication is key in all: using the right vocabulary for the right target audience, and be able to translate and align.
Project manager
Result driven management of your projects, with a sound technical basis to understand the impact of (changing) requirements on both business and ICT. Using both Agile/SCRUM and more formal methods, SolArch operates best as a technical project management partner besides a more process oriented business project manager.
Solution architect
Translating business needs to solutions, in the broadest sense: business model, process model, systems architecture, scenario planning, functional decomposition of complex solutions, all can be the result of a requirement set that has to be communicated and handed over to a realizing body.
Enterprise architect
How your business strategy translates into an information- and technology set-up that realizes this strategy can result in policies, organizational changes and technical architecture decisions. All described in the viewpoints needed for all stakeholders that need input for their decision-making process. The resulting reference architecture is used as a blueprint for realizing the business solutions that drive your business.
Requirements workshop facilitator
Gathering requirements can be a tedious process. A lot of methods are available to describe requirements, and various trainings and books too. In the end it comes down to: “Do(es) the developer(s) understand what I need?” and “Does the product that is implemented meet the expectations of the client?”. Thus: understanding expectations is the key. A picture and a text is interpreted by its reader with the knowledge and understanding of the subject he/she has. This goes for the vocabulary used as well: only in a workshop setting where all people that have a role in the requirements definition AND realization phase of a project are present, a common understanding can be reached on the solution that has to be realized. SolArch is specialized in facilitating workshops with a diverse group of people, who need to work together on a common goal: a happy customer, and satisfied end-user of a solution.
Speaker
SolArch likes to explain things. How to get a message across is evenly important as what the message is. What are the purpose and goal of your message? What actions do you expect your audience will take after this message has been told? In implementations of technology solutions, explaining the 7 Key Questions: Who, What, Why, When, Where, How, How Much are the basics of success and acceptance. Dependent on the audience, SolArch can facilitate more in-depth sessions as well as presentations in layman’s terms, from an informal meeting setting for a few people, to a seminar hall filled with an audience.