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

	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