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Capability Roadmapping

Current, interim and target-state design, multi-year capability roadmaps, and enterprise architecture assessments across a federated estate.

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 8 disciplines this one worked alongside, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that used this technology is counted, so what shows here is the company it kept rather than the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Defining enterprise architecture strategy, assessments and multi-year capability roadmaps for a shared platform serving multiple independently governed agencies.

The complication in a federated estate is that a roadmap cannot assume the authority to sequence anybody’s work. It has to be persuasive on its own terms — showing each agency what it gets and when — because the alternative to agreement is not escalation, it is being ignored.

Applied in

  • Municipal Infrastructure Assessment to RFP2024–2025An infrastructure assessment for a town government, scoped from the start to become the foundation of its own procurement rather than a proposal for follow-on work.
  • Architecture by Influence2010–2024A CIO's instruction — manage by influence rather than by headcount — and the fourteen years of practice built on it, in an estate where nothing could be mandated anyway.
  • Architecture Review BoardFrom November 2021The successor governance body, and the first with a budget attached — a five-to-ten year capital plan rather than a rolling list of purchases.
  • Enterprise AI Readiness Assessment2022–2024Two years of technology review and systems analysis on where AI could fit a consolidated city-county government — and, as often, where it could not yet be defended.
  • Enterprise Architecture Program2009–2024The EA practice itself — business, information, technical and solution viewpoints, with strategy, assessments and multi-year capability roadmaps for a platform shared by agencies that answered to different elected officers.
  • Enterprise Technology Budget Program2011–2024A $48M to $62M annual technology budget, built and defended in public across thirteen cycles for a consolidated city-county government.

Career

Attested by

  • TOGAF2015 · Not renewedThe Open Group Architecture Framework — the formal vocabulary for work already being done at the City of Jacksonville.

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