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What should ITANA work on after the Face 2 Face meeting?  Post your ideas here.

Here are some starter ideas just to seed the page and stir.  (see also: CSG EA Presentation)

Study of EA models, organizational models, maturity models and effectiveness

  • What IT Architecture models work in different organizations at different maturity levels.
  • Which modes fit which organizational models (as per Enterprise Architecture as Strategy)
  • Framework for aligning the organization and architectural maturity

Joint training events

  • Bredemeyer EA course at St Lois
  • MagicDraw UML session

Tool Evaluations 

  • UML Modeling tool comparisons

Phone calls structured around "business owners"

  • "Invite your Registrar to the call this friday" Let's talk about what EA means to them
  • What about State / Federal liaisons  State - Public and State Higher Ed

FUTURE ACTIVITIES (From the Face 2 Face meeting):

Architectural Maturity Model and Architectural Implementation Model - survey of institutions (see EA Facets)
  • What role does build vs. buy play in how architecture is done at an institution?
  • What about Open Source participation?
  • Basis for Peer directory
Presentation at EDUCAUSE about the Role of Architecture and the Value of Architecture
Role of the vendors (Burton, Gartner, IBM, Sun) in this space:  good experiences, bad experiences, when does it make sense to bring them in.
Running similar applications:  collaboration on integration of these applications
Discussions around data management:
  • not storage but metadata management.
  • What storage type is good for which types of data (Web servers, file store, WebDAV).
  • Data management in a SOA
Common Integration Points with a variety of applications and external service providers. 
  • Common  requirements for service providers. 
  • What are the questions that we are asking?
  • Exit strategies and get back (not just the data but) the rich integration and relationships and metadata that surrounds it.
On-going discussion about collaboration tools
Change Management tools and processes 
SOA
Taxonomy of Pain - what are the pain points and how do we fix them.
Common Use Cases.
  • Especially something like Outsourcing Email which we all seem to be looking at right now
Peer Directory and Peer review of work.
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