Attendees: Rich Cropp, Louis King, Jacob Morris
Topic/Theme Order:
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Being an "Architect" - shifting your focus and skills | 1/15 | 2020 New Year Architect Resolutions | - seeding the ideas, not blank slate
- proposed resolutions
- Give an overview of the Itana wiki
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| 1/29 | Prioritizing Your Time - making room for shifting your focus and skills Jacob (facilitate) | - Defining what is Important (Institutional priorities, your team's, etc.)
- How does this align to the 3-5 work goals my organization has for me? (working backwards - mine < my team < IT org < university )
- Is this in scope or out of scope? For me? For my team? ... For the university?
- What about your professional development goals?
- How do you negotiate and codify this? Work plan?
Important vs Urgent (quadrant) - how much time spent? (pie chart) The 4 D's (Drop, Delay, Delegate, Do) - Defending your calendar (which pie slice are you working on?)
What other examples do you have for prioritizing your own time?
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| 2/12 | Influencing Strategies & Difficult Conversations Louis (present/facilitate) | - Saying No deftly
- Accepting No deftly
- Using influence over the long term
- Influence in those difficult conversations
- Importance of maintaining relationships for success
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| 2/26 | Storytelling Chris (present/facilitate?) |
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- Being an "Architect" - shifting your focus and skills
- Prioritizing your own time
- Defending your calendar
- Important vs Urgent (quadrant)
- The 4 D's (Drop, Delay, Delegate, Do)
- What other examples do you have for prioritizing your own time?
- Growing an EA Practice
- Prioritizing the projects you take on
- Fitting the Organization
- Architect Survival Kit (on the Itana wiki)
Action Items
Theme Ideas from December 2019 Meeting:
- 'Wrangling' engagements
- Soliciting/eliciting requirements
- Size/shaping engagements
- Shifting your skills and focus (from tech/analyst → Architect)
- Next-level Facilitation
- Biz req's → approach and a specific use case
- Strategic thinking
- Facilitation on specific artifacts
- Managing/Growing an EA Practice
- How to manage and grow your practice
- Capacity-building models for the EA capability
- how they have been used, models that people like
- Determining your start-up outcomes to help deliver value to your institution
- How to create a talent pipeline for EA and architecture skills
- Your EA Practice and Fit into your Organization
- EA in ITSM
- EA and IT Governance
- EA and PMO
- EA and the rest of IT staff (central, decentralized, etc.)
- Roles and capabilities (Design Thinking, etc.)to help with change
- EA as a Service
- Gartner: internal consultancy
- Architecting the IT Organization: Clarifying the Contributions of Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, and ITSM to the IT Value Chain
https://www.educause.edu/architecting