What is within the scope of Enterprise Architecture? Let us continue with an example from our project list.

Lack of needed contracts is paramount in majority of productions and we need to manage this area to be on the safe side.

The situation now are as:

We have legal obligation to keep copyright agreements for at least 70 years.
We have a few architecture principles that guides development of our solutions.
We have a defined business process in our Production Handbook that require those agreements to be in place before start shooting.
The agreements includes personal identifiable information as defined in GDPR.
Agreements are classified as company confidential. If we one day get a Star Wars contract will it be classified as “company secret”.
The different types of agreements are implemented as Word templates. Unsigned contracts are stored in teams for each production. Each individual contract is printed in two copies and signed by both parties. We also have blank contract on paper with us as a backup if there are late changes in plans.
The signed document is scanned and stored in Microsoft Teams per production. The signed original is kept in a paper archive, one tab per production, until copyright ends.
The production code and name, e.g. “10117 Saving Mimosa”, is managed in the financial systems.
The production code and name, e.g. “10117 Saving Mimosa”, is managed in the media management systems.
The list of which person is part of which production need to solved by another project as part of pre-production process.

What of above parts are Enterprise Architecture for you? Please explain why and why not.

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