ITANA steering committee we discussed the possibility of a mid-term ITANA f-2-f workshop (April ). This workshop would be focused on building out a reference library of conceptual models and example real-life use cases. There is an email survey making the ITANA email list rounds.
Proposed ITANA mid-term f-2-f workshop
Confirmed Dates: April 22 - 24
Confirmed venue: The Husky Union Building (HUB), Room 340. University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Logistics: Hotels, Parking, Travel
| Travel to Campus | The University of Washington is located in the U-District of Seattle.
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| Parking | Parking on campus is limited. You will need to pay for your own parking if you drive. See the Spring F2F Parking Page for details if you are driving to campus. |
| Hotels | See the Spring F2F Hotel Page for details. The UW does have a price agreement with several hotels close to campus. (I do not care for the Deca Hotel. It isn't bad but it also isn't good. YMMV. - ed.) |
| Other info | The U-District has a lot of "college" restaurants. Nearby is University Village - an open-air mall with several better restaurants. The nearby neighborhood of Wallingford has lots of good restaurants. There are two small art galleries on campus. There is good bus service downtown. Rowing is really big in the area and you can always go to a bridge and watch crew. |
Subject: EA Conceptual Models
Enterprise Architects use a variety of conceptual models and tools to convey their ideas. (Piet's framework could guide this work well I think - JP) These include:
- Brick Diagrams
- Pace Layers
- Capability Maps
- Core Diagrams
- TIME models
- Roadmaps
Workshop goals
- A deep dive into each tool using a selected use case from Higher Education as an illustrative example (eg using Core diagram to describe the Advising ecosystem on campus)
- Document usage of the tool and “how to get started” information for architects
- Find a broad set examples where people have used them
F2F meeting structure
This would be like an (un)Conference where we would be agile in the agenda and deliverables but focused on creating a set of resources for ITANA members
- Use break-out groups each concentrating on a topic
Outcomes
- In person idea sharing and exchange
- A best practices library relating to the use of these tools
- A set of guidelines for each tool. In what context is the tool useful? Who is the intended audience? What kinds of information does it best convey?
- Information that can be applied to one or more problems at the home institution. Ideally that work can be fed back to the library started in the F2F
Proposed schedule (note: there will be breaks during the morning and afternoon sessions).
| 8:30-11:45 | 11:45-1:15 | 1:15-5:00 | 6:00PM |
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Day 1 | No meeting |
| Facilitator: Heidi Barta, UW-IT Organizational Development
| ad hoc Dinner |
Day 2 | Continue with selected topics | Lunch | Continue with selected topics | ad hoc Dinner |
Day 3 | Post-workshop action items |
| No meeting |
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Strawman for an approach
Using principles from hackathons and unconferences.
- Use most of day 1 for stage setting. I believe the items listed in the agenda above will fill up the time, but by the end of the day we should have topics, leads, and teams to tackle them (topics, not leads). We might want to encourage teams to eat dinner together and begin discussions on their topics.
- Day 2 is hackathon day. Teams work on their topic, creating all of the outcomes listed above. If they complete their topic, the can choose another one. This continues throughout the day.
- Day 3 is presentation day. Each team should present their completed topics to the assembled group.
Questions:
What about partially completed topics? Do we want to do something with them?
Do we want to do some presentations on day 2, in order to give the attendees who didn't work on the topic a change to provide feedback and still give the teams time to incorporate the feedback into their tool?
Possible Scenarios
- Core diagram in support of advisors
- Given a portfolio of initiatives, we need to develop a roadmap, manage the portfolio, and otherwise provide stewardship. We need to demonstrate needed capabilities and dependencies and to promote an architecture favoring user experience driven initiatives. We need to communicate the approach to stakeholders. What tools would support this analysis? What tools would communicate needed aspects best
Attendees
| Name | Yes (Y) Maybe (M) | Loc | 4/22 | 5/6 | 5/11 | 5/18 | 5/20 | ||
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| José Cedeno | M | SEA | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | ||
| Harry Samuels | Y | either | Y | N | N | Y | Y | ||
| Brenda Reeb | Y | STL | Y | N | N | N | N | If June and July can do SEA | |
| Paul Schurr | Y | SEA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Bob Guthrie | Y | either | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | ||
| Scott Fullerton | Y | either | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | ||
| Leo fernig | Y | SEA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Kris Steinhoff | Yes,Probably | STL probably better | not great | possible | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Chris Eagle | Yes | either prefer STL | preferred | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Jim Phelps | Yes | either prefer SEA | Y | maybe | N | maybe | maybe | ||
| Bob Dein | Yes | either prefer STL | Y | ||||||
| Luke Tracy | Yes Probably | either | Good | Good | Possible | Good | Possible | ||
| Michael Grinnell | Yes if budget allows | either prefer SEA | virtual | N | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Troy Martin | Yes | SEA | Y (3rd) | Y (1st) | Y (2nd) | ||||
| Rick Tuthill | Yes | either | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Rupert Berk | Yes if approved | SEA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Gary Grafe | Yes | STL | Y | early summer: June, July | |||||
| David Roberts | Yes | SEA | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Summary
My (srf) conclusion:
- no clear winner as to venue
- Suggest removing 5/11 as an option, since neither Jim nor I can make it.
- 4/22 is best; 5/20 is an alternative (esp if Jim can make it)
| Certainty | Total | Loc | 4/22 | 5/6 | 5/11 | 5/18 | 5/20 | Names | Notes |
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Maybe | 4 (counting probably) | SEA 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | José Cedeno | |
| STL 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Either 3 | 1 yes 1 not great | 1 yes 1 possible | 2 yes 1 possible | 3 yes | 2 yes 1 possible | Michael Grinnell (prob) Kris Steinhoff (prob) Luke Tracy (if budget allows) | Michael G. prefers SEA Kris St.: STL probably better | ||
| Yes | 13 (counting Rupert) | SEA 5 | 4 yes 1 3rd choice | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | Paul Schurr Troy Martin Rupert Berk Leo Fernig David Roberts | |
| STL 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Brenda Reeb Gary Grafe | Brenda can do SEA if June or July Gary can also do June, July | ||
| either 7 | 6 | 4 yes Jim P maybe | 2 Jim P and srf no | 5 yes Jim P maybe | 6 yes Jim P maybe | Harry Samuels Bob Guthrie Scott Fullerton Chris Eagle Jim Phelps Bob Dein Rick Tuthill | Chris E. prefers STL Jim P prefers SEA Bob Dein prefers STL |
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