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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

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1. Shifting your

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1. skills and focus (from tech/analyst → Architect)
2. Next-level Facilitation
   • Biz req'

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1. • s → approach and a specific use case
   • Strategic thinking
   • Facilitation on specific artifacts
2. 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
3. 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
2. Growing an EA Practice
3. Fitting the Organization
4. Architect Survival Kit (on the Itana wiki)