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Itana is a peer group for Enterprise, Business, and Technical Architects in Higher Education: https://itana.orgImage Removed

  • Founded in 2007
  • Over 950 members on EDUCAUSE Connect
  • Typically hosting over 80 events every year
  • EDUCAUSE:
    • Preconference Session, "Enterprise Architecture: Delivering Value from Streamlining Ops to Wrangling Disruptive Technologies"
    • Community Group session, "ITANA: Enterprise, Business, and Technical Architects Focus on the Year Ahead"
    • Informal gatherings

Call Notes

  • Strategy and Governance is the first topic in the Architecture Practice  
  • Eric Whitmore, MSU: What is Strategy?  The institution is kicking off a strategy refresh.  At the most basic level, the purpose of a strategy is to guide decision-making and resource allocation (of a team, an organization, a country, etc).  The key question for contributors is "how will we (or me) help the institution achieve its vision?".
  • positioning:
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  • Goals (longer-term and more of a north star vs Objectives (more intermediary waypoints that help achieve the goals).
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  • Michigan State has these goals, underpinned by objectives, but the problem is that sometimes there are differences in priorities and ideas and opinions about the best way to help the University achieve its mission, and that is where leadership and governance needs to come to the fore:
  • Mary Stevens, What is Governance?  It's there to help navigate those differences mentioned above, to align effort and decision-making.
  • Last year's working group on IT Governance broadly found that governance is governance, that there's not really much difference in the capability of IT Governance than other types of governance:
  • IT Management:
  • ...and note also that the HERM includes a recipe card for IT Governance.
  • Pulling It All Together: TOGAF has six governance domains. noting that architecture governance overlaps with the others and is at the heart of enterprise governance:

    ...and:
  • MSU has governance instantiated at the IT level and in the form of an Enterprise Project Management Office and also has formal and cross-cutting Data Governance in place at University level.  In other areas there are opportunities to strengthen the governance.
  • Where does Enterprise Architecture fit in the context of formal and informal governance responsibilities?
  • Polls and Discussions!
    • Governance at Your Institution: the results are almost "all of the above" for everybody!
    • Governance Structures at Your Campus: interesting to see that formal governance is not necessarily as high as it might have been expected to be... is this perhaps related to the positioning of Enterprise Architecture within the hierarchy of the institutions?


    • Governance Structures Domains: most of the engagement activity for the folk on the call today is related to data and technology and project-execution and cybersecurity, rather than things like research and teaching and business-capability-management:
  • Enterprise Architects (in reality probably all architects) do need to consider the financial and economic and value-engineering aspects of the decision-making processes to which they contribute.
  • At what point does Strategy turn towards (or dictate or shape) the choices around operating model and the adoption of frameworks such as SAFe or ITIL?

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