The capabilities featured in this site help architects work as leaders in their organizations, creating consensus around ideas, inspiring action, and guiding solutions.
Architectural capabilities overlap with those 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
Generating Ideas
Using an Artifact to Analyze and Communicate
Selling an Idea
Inspiring Action, Mobilizing, and Acting
Sustaining and Adjusting
Measuring Progress
Communicating Success
Other capabilities that are also crucial to the success of architecture leadership include:
Planning and Managing Meetings
Building Relationships
Capabilities
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Thank you!
The pages in this 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!