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1. First Call: new branding, Steering Cmte changes, look forward to upcoming calendar, round table of what was coming in higher ed.
2. Beginning of Oct: signature ready EA.  Review of Spring F2F.  Reviewed a fair number of examples.  U Mich is using some more.  
   1. Louis: liked in person exposure to material.  Liked the  MESA diagrams to help transition into a service oriented org.  
   2. Chris: 40 MESAs done (not yet available to public; expect them to be in early spring).  
   3. Used a capability map for higher ed.  Plan to talk about that in upcoming call.  Do others have capability map for higher ed?   Chris suggested we define a reference capability.
      1. Dana: drafted one over the last year.  It's an attempt.  It's in a spreadsheet and used for configuration management.
      2. Jim: Piet and Jenny Jenni are working on something similar.  would be interesting to get them back on the call.
      3. Chris: make this a topic for upcoming discussion?  YES.
   4. Found focus on collaborative work needed to get signatures was quite interesting.
3. 10/23 Spreading the EA skills across the organization: Jim's presentation.  End to end business process mapping, embedded architecture, business architecture, data architecture, EA interface.  There is a strong core in the EA team that needs to draw from and support federated architecture (architecture in place)
   1. Louis: was impressed by the orchestration – facilitating collaboration, disseminating knowledge to spread the load and to work with those closest to getting the work done.
   2. Chris: 3 challenges: explaining what we do, expressing the value, getting the resources.  This call was quite helpful in addressing the third topic.
4. F2F: 25 people.  Majored in signature-ready artifacts and minored in facilitation.  Many valuable case studies.  
   1. Dana: did repurpose the strategy-on-a-page document and has been using it in an engagement.  Also interested in MESA diagram
   2. Dan: Facilitation techniques have been helpful in developing MESA diagrams.
5. UC Presentation on the UC System EA framework 
   1. UC System seems to have a history of being a well-integrated system.  It seems to require a cohesive system to pull it off.
   2. Ashish: Need to focus more on principles and guidelines before moving into standards.
6. Data Governance: Yale and Rochester presentations.   More calls?  and what kind of take-aways.
   
   1. Liked the give and take
   2. fun to be part of the presentation.

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