Pre-meeting Activities
Survey of Interest and Topics
Arrange Facilities (Jim Phelps has a contact at Columbia)
Here are the results as of April 5, 2007
Things which scored highly in the survey
Votes |
Topic
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Format
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Leader |
7 |
How and where I.T. Architecture has been implemented at your institution
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Panel |
Jim Phelps
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7 |
Applying architectural frameworks in higher education - challenges and alignments |
Panel |
merge with above
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7 |
I.T. Portfolio management - mapping strategy to tactics
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Panel |
Mark Poepping
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6 |
Workflow and Business Rules Engines
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Panel
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|
5 |
Service Oriented Architecture
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Panel
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Paul Hill
|
5 |
Standard Application development models (Workflow -> Business Rules -> IdM -> how do they plug in together)
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Panel
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Survey for Face2Face Participants
Main Objective: Bring people together to see if there is any interesting work in this space.
Blob of text about participation: open to anyone but preference is for ITANA members. We are looking for people to present their work though a limited number of guest speakers are welcome. If you do know of someone who is outstanding on topic, we can invite them. Send an email to: itana-info AT internet2.edu
About yourself (text fields)
- Name
- Institution
- Title
- email
- URL (to a profile)
Participation (Check box: Yes or No)
- Are you signed up for the EDUCAUSE Constituent Group email list?
- Have you signed up for an account on the Internet2 wiki?
- Do you get the email notices from the ITANA web site (http://www.itana.org)?
About ITANA itself (Fixed part of Agenda)
- The charter
- The membership
- How we set agendas
- Hopes and dreams
- Future meetings
About I.T. Architecture (Selection boxes: Would like to hear, Not Interested - Option: Willing to Talk, text field for title, Format: Presentation, Panel)
- How and where I.T. Architecture has been implemented at your institution
- Your organizations plans
- The Open Group's Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
- Vendor activities in I.T. Architecture (what are Microsoft, Oracle, Sun doing?)
- Other organizations activities (Mellon Foundation for example)
- Architectural Maturity Model and measuring your institution
- Applying architectural frameworks in higher education - challenges and alignments
Hot Topics in I.T. Architecture (Selection boxes: Would like to hear, Not Interested - Option: Willing to Talk/Lead, Text field for title, Format: Presentation, Panel)
- Service Oriented Architecture
- I.T. Portfolio management - mapping strategy to tactics
- Model Driven Architecture - UML and Business Process Modeling
- Identity Management
- Data Management as a discipline
- Workflow and Business Rules Engines
- Standard Application development models (Workflow -> Business Rules -> IdM -> how do they plug in together)
- Common Business Logic components (Pluggable business and utility code)
- Enterprise Portal - How to empower end users and service providers to push new content to the portal
- other _______
Initiatives (Choice: Would like to hear, Not Interested - Option: Willing to Talk/Lead, Text field for Title, Format: Presentation, Panel)
- Things on your campus that you want to talk about
- Things in world at large that you want someone to talk about (be ready, willing and able to line up a speaker)
- What do the analysts say we should be working on (e.g. Burton, Gartner, et al)
- What's happening in other vertical markets like Health Care, Financial
- What is on the governments radar that we should be pro-active about.
- Training Opportunities - e.g. a joint Burton session, a group week with Bredemeyer, MagicDraw UML session, etc
What else should we be thinking about? (Blob of text field)
I Volunteer for the Agenda Setting Team (check box: Yes or No)