2019-02-12 New2EA Meeting Notes

1. See Attendees

1. Support working group setup
2. Participate in early planning and initial meetings
3. A sounding board for ideas
4. Resources to use in your program
5. A conduit to the Itana Community Group
6. A conduit to other Educause and professional community groups

1. Review Charge to Working Groups
   1. Strategic capabilities
   2. Service capabilities
   3. Community-Facing Capabilities
   4. Supporting Capabilities/Service Capabilities
2. Draft Charter
3. Prioritize topics
4. Identify types of activities and desired outcomes
5. Schedule events
6. Set up administrative approach
7. Establish group leadership

• Topics collected via survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RzzRwYOvMLqdpybhDa3a3smgX_AaCb0avLgv5ngsBjA/edit?usp=sharing
• Discussion of New2EA for the first time as a contributor, New2EA for a reset, I missed the third???
  • A new EA contributor to an established practice
  • Launching an EA practice from scratch
  • Relaunching/reset EA
• What is unique about Higher Education EA
  • This is a helpful thing to think about
  • Access to a range of possible roles could be useful
• How can I approach EA in a structured way

What does an EA do on a typical day? What are you doing and producing.

• • You can do an interview of people who are practicing to find out (potential New2EA activity)
    • Jim-Mostly politically manage up
      • Our 4 architects at UW might have some really different answers
• Perhaps surveying a broad array of practices might be of interest.
  • Architects involved in health care would be interesting as well.
  • Looking at different lines of business might offer different takes on it.
• Institutional structure has a great deal to do with how EA is practiced.
• Is it more structured in other industries than higher ed. Yes, why?
  • Bottom line.
  • Compliance.
  • Clear hierarchy of decision maker.
  • Clear structures within the organization.
• People in higher ed sometimes want more structure.
• The research side has a different approach than health care and higher education.

Topic Categories from Survey Shared by Alberto

EA in General

• Starting EA Practice
• Roadmaps
• Processes, Best Practices
• Governance
• Learning, Training

EA in HigherEd

• Starting Practice in HE
• Success Stories, Lessons Learned
• Practice Communities
• Culture (Changing, embracing EA)

EA Value

• How to Demonstrate Value of EA
• Measuring Success: KPI, ROI,
• Dashboards, Analytics, etc

EA Tools

• PlanTools
• Frameworks
• Artifacts
• Techniques

EA for IT

• IT Infrastructure, Cloud
• ITSM: ChangeMgmt, CMDB, 
• Breaking Information Siloes
• KnowledgeMgmt, Documentation  

• Identify leadership at next meeting, Jacob is interested, Alberto is interested
• Other leadership could be spread over specific deliverables
• Cadence of meetings (every 2 weeks?)
• Get the survey list on New2EA site, Jim (Done)
• Go through a charge to Working Group document and go through it. Pick out a couple of key questions.
• Could we winnow down that document to the key points prior to the next call. Google Doc. Jacob. Serge.