The approaches capabilities featured in this section site help architects work as leaders in their organizations, creating consensus around ideas, inspiring action, and guiding solutions.
Architectural approaches capabilities overlap with those used by of project managers and other leaders, but focus on slightly different themes. These themes include:
Leading toward decisions that are best for the whole enterprise, not just a particular project
Building awareness of enterprise-wide patterns that may not be initially apparent to individual teams
Creating consensus and sustaining action on complex, large-scale problems and ideas
Measuring success in terms of long-term architectural principles, not just short-term benefits
This site is not intended as a framework or a fixed process of doing things in a specified way. Each capability below includes examples, possible activities, and suggested skills or competencies. You should adapt these to your enterprise and to the problem at hand.
Overview
Generate Generating Ideas
Create Using an Artifact to Analyze and Communicate
Sell the Selling an Idea
Inspire Inspiring Action, MobilizeMobilizing, and ActActing
Sustain Sustaining and AdjustAdjusting
Measure Measuring Progress
Communicate Communicating Success
Other activities capabilities that are also crucial to the success of architecture leadership include:
Planning and Managing Meetings
Building Relationships
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Thank you!
The pages in this section site were drafted by the participants in the ITANA Spring Face2Face 2016 meeting. Many thanks to the the participants and to everyone who contributed methods for consideration!