In Enterprise Architecture Management, there are different participant roles. The most important roles and their definition are listed in the following:
Lifecycle manager from the relevant department. Responsible for the planning, development, and further development of the application over its entire lifecycle. The application system manager is the contact person for application developers and application support staff, and supports them.
Responsible for further strategic development of the architecture framework, for consolidating standards and system inventory, and for specifying their design.
Responsible for further operational development of the architecture framework based on the strategic context provided, for maintenance of the architecture set, and for further development and approval of IT standards.
IT landscape planners record and maintain the as-is process support map of systems in relation to the supported business processes and the organizational structure. Other tasks of this role include the development of the to-be process support map based on the as-is state and strategic requirements.
This role represents company staff working in the area of Business Process Management (BPM). Staff members may be process managers in the specialist departments, process modelers, or employees of process management competence centers of central IT.