Lack of shared understanding among stakeholders is a commonly cited drawback in enterprise architecture development. Stakeholders need to have shared understanding of requirements and principles for an enterprise architecture, and the extent to which the resultant architecture addresses their concerns. However, existing approaches for enterprise architecture development lack adequate capabilities for managing aspects associated with creating shared understanding among stakeholders. Although such aspects can be largely managed by approaches for collaborative decision making and soft systems thinking, these approaches lack details on the enterprise architecture process and its products. Therefore, this paper explores ways of mutually diminishing these gaps through adopting situational method engineering, to guide the development of a situational method for enabling stakeholders to acquire shared understanding of requirements for an enterprise architecture. The situational method presented herein is a component of a broader method for supporting collaboration between stakeholders and architects during enterprise architecture creation. Although the latter was successfully evaluated in 6 enterprises, it exhibited highest performance scores in two enterprises after it was amended with the situational method. Therefore, this paper also presents key findings from evaluating the situational method in the two agencies that are located in Uganda.

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一种在企业架构需求上建立共同理解的情境方法

利益相关者之间缺乏共同的理解是企业架构开发中普遍提到的缺点。利益相关者需要对企业架构的要求和原则以及最终架构解决他们关注的程度有共同的理解。然而，现有的企业架构开发方法缺乏足够的能力来管理与在利益相关者之间建立共享理解相关的方面。尽管这些方面可以在很大程度上通过协作决策和软系统思维的方法来管理，但这些方法缺乏关于企业架构过程及其产品的细节。因此，本文探讨了通过采用情景方法工程来相互缩小这些差距的方法，指导开发一种情境方法，使利益相关者能够获得对企业架构需求的共同理解。本文介绍的情景方法是在企业架构创建期间支持利益相关者和架构师之间协作的更广泛方法的一个组成部分。后者虽然在 6 家企业中成功评估，但经过情景法修正后，在 2 家企业中表现出最高的绩效得分。因此，本文还介绍了评估位于乌干达的两个机构的情景方法的主要发现。本文介绍的情景方法是在企业架构创建期间支持利益相关者和架构师之间协作的更广泛方法的一个组成部分。后者虽然在 6 家企业中成功评估，但经过情景法修正后，在 2 家企业中表现出最高的绩效得分。因此，本文还介绍了评估位于乌干达的两个机构的情景方法的主要发现。本文介绍的情景方法是在企业架构创建期间支持利益相关者和架构师之间协作的更广泛方法的一个组成部分。后者虽然在 6 家企业中成功评估，但经过情景法修正后，在 2 家企业中表现出最高的绩效得分。因此，本文还介绍了评估位于乌干达的两个机构的情景方法的主要发现。