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Face2Face at EDUCAUSE 2011

Draft agenda - from the planning committee (Chris Eagle of U Michigan, Paul Hobson of UBC, Matt Kolb of MSU and Jim Phelps UW-Madison)

Audience - mostly ITANA members who are on the email list an on the calls.

Outcomes -

• Gather feedback re: concerns and considerations for each area
• Send people back with the goals and tasks for each area of focus for ITANA going forward
• Identify one or two projects for ITANA members to jointly work-on
• Identify one or two professional development goals to work on back at your campus

Morning Sessions:

Architecture Introduction (aka Speed Dating)

Starting Up an EA Practice

• Defining and measuring the value of EA / Defining "The Road To Value" (JISC). Moving the metrics up the stack from hardware to "time to strategic implementation" or "reduce risk". Working groups to define metrics?
• Entry points, where do you start
• Selling EA and then starting to do EA
• Where should EA be placed in the Organization? Who should be on the team? Where do the lower level architects fit into the group? How do you bring Business Analysts and distributed architects into the mix.

5/10 Feedback Session

Growing an EA Practice

• Maturity Model
• Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Architecture
• Managing the Lifecycles: Students, Researchers, Instructors, Staff, Advisors
• Governance, Architecture Review Committee - leveraging what you have. Making it work with what you've got.

5/10 Feedback Session

Afternoon Sessions:

Practice of EA - Professional Development

• Leading Managing and Doing as Architect - what are your tasks and which ones are most important
• Building Influence
• Business architecture model and views. This is probably a superset of the actor lifecycle view Matt mentions as well as the capability maps we looked at a few ITANA calls ago.
• Starting points of those discussion and Entry to EA discussions; what works as a starter for 10.

5/10 Feedback Session

Next Steps - Going Forward

• What are the goals and tasks that ITANA should work on going forward
• Identify one or two projects for ITANA members to jointly work-on
• Identify one or two professional development goals to work on back at your campus