Introduction
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
Other capabilities that are also crucial to the success of architecture leadership include:
Capabilities
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!
Architect Viewpoints
There are as many ways to use architectural capabilities to lead change as there are institutions and architects. Here are some viewpoints contributed by Itana members:
- Scott Fullerton on The Leadership Skills Ninja
Overview
Content Tools