Client Synopsis
Frankston City CouncilOrganisation Overview
Frankston City is located on the eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay approximately 40 kilometres south of Melbourne’s CBD, within metropolitan Melbourne. The municipality covers an area of about 131 square kilometres from Seaford Wetlands in the north, to Frankston South in the south and the Western Port Highway in the east. The western boundary of the city is made up of 11 kilometres of coastline.
Frankston City comprises the suburbs of Frankston, Frankston South, Frankston North, Seaford, Carrum Downs, Langwarrin, Langwarrin South, Karingal, Sandhurst and Skye. It is strategically placed as the regional centre for the Mornington Peninsula and the south-east growth corridor of Melbourne. Main industries include health and community services, manufacturing, retail trade, education, and training. Frankston is recognised for its parks, natural reserves, vibrant lifestyle, diverse community and growing business and arts sectors. Frankston City provides recreation, leisure, and entertainment facilities for a population catchment far greater than its municipal boundaries as it hosts a number of popular venues and attractions such as the Frankston Arts Centre, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery and a full calendar of events.
Fragile to Agile Engagement
The City of Frankston had previously engaged another provider to establish and initial set of Enterprise Architecture Artefacts, which were delivered using the MS Office suite. These were not easy to maintain and difficult to use for their primary purpose of business consultation. Fragile to Agile where initially engaged to investigate the volume and complexity of existing Enterprise Architecture artefacts with Frankston City Council staff and to understand the requirements for continuing use, update, and augmentation of those artefacts. Emphasis of the investigation was on making the artefacts easier to distribute and use in day-to-day ICT operation and development.
The deliverables from this first stage were:
- A report on EA Tools evaluated against the city’s criteria with a recommendation on which tool met their needs best;
- A fixed price SOW to convert and load existing artefacts into the tool once procured by the council.
The tool recommendation was accepted and procured and Fragile to Agile were then engaged to convert/reformat the existing artefacts and load them into the new tool.