Attendees: Louis King, Yolanda Uzzell, Lonnie Smetana, Mary Stevens, Rich Cropp, Dawn Hemminger, Jacob Morris

Theme Ideas:

  1. 'Wrangling' engagements
    • Soliciting/eliciting requirements
    • Size/shaping engagements
  2. Shifting your skills and focus (from tech/analyst → Architect)
  3. Next-level Facilitation
    • Biz req's → approach and a specific use case
    • Strategic thinking
    • Facilitation on specific artifacts
  4. Managing/Growing an EA Practice
    • How to manage and grow your practice
    • Capacity-building models for the EA capability
      • how they have been used, models that people like
    • Determining your start-up outcomes to help deliver value to your institution
    • How to create a talent pipeline for EA and architecture skills
  5. Your EA Practice and Fit into your Organization
    • EA in ITSM
    • EA and IT Governance
    • EA and PMO
    • EA and the rest of IT staff (central, decentralized, etc.)
    • Roles and capabilities (Design Thinking, etc.)to help with change 
    • EA as a Service
    • Gartner: internal consultancy
    • Architecting the IT Organization: Clarifying the Contributions of Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, and ITSM to the IT Value Chain
      https://www.educause.edu/architecting

Topic/Theme Order:

  1. Being an "Architect" - shifting your focus and skills
    1. 1/15 - 2020 New Year Architect Resolutions
      1. seeding the ideas, not blank slate
      2. proposed resolutions (seeded by the Planning Group)
      3. Give an overview of the Itana wiki
  2. Growing an EA Practice
  3. Fitting the Organization
  4. Architect Survival Kit (on the Itana wiki)


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