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The Face2Face meeting will be on Tuesday, November 6, as a pre conference seminar (#06F) at the EDUCAUSE national conference in Denver, Colorado. Please be sure to register.
Feedback from the 2011 Face2Face meeting
• More case studies
• More Enterprise Architecture 101 for new architects
• More opportunities to interact and meet others (eg, mixing up tables during the session)
• More practical stuff to take home
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Comments on Face2Face Planning
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Agenda Build for Face2Face at EDUCAUSE
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A. Disruptive Change in Higher Education - Why does architecture matter?
• Fundamental changes that are coming to higher education
• CIO’s view on Enterprise Architecture and change management
• Break-out session on disruptive change
• What disruptive changes to you see or foresee at your institution?
• See Diana Oblinger’s free e-book at http://www.educause.edu/game-changers
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B. Enterprise Architecture 101 - How do architects get started?
• Architects at all levels are leaders
• Questions you should be asking as an EA
• Case studies as an example of how you get things done
• ** Scott: What is the domain, who are the consumers?
• **Is it for conversation among key stakeholders?
• **Is the goal to create new capabilities?
• **Examples of different ways for an architect to engage, and what gets produced
• **Adapting these tools to specific contexts and consumer needs
• Lifecycle Analysis as a framework for EA
• Starting conversations that wouldn’t normally start
• Connecting people who normally wouldn’t connect
• Linking initiatives that people haven’t thought about the linkage
• Focusing on the customers
• Highlights governance issues
• Forces you to frame your argument in business terms
• Capability Mapping
• A way to bring out the capabilities for a business unit
• A way to think about People, Process and Technology in neutral terms
• Using SOA as a model
• You need to be able to communicate value in each of the tiers of the enterprise
• You need to justify even technical work in business terms
• **Dan: Examples of documentation, tools you use to do your job
• Break Out / Workbook Activity:
• Think of a something that you tried to sell that didn’t go well and how you might have sold it differently. (influence and other dimensions)
• You have seen some higher level artifacts, how would you have used them
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Overall CSG meeting agenda (June 13-15 at the University of Iowa)
http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/
• Workshop on Projecting Institutional Infrastructure Into the Cloud http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/agenda.html#adda
• Workshop on Virtual Desktops http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/agenda.html#addb
• Attendee list in case you want to reach out to someone who presented http://www.stonesoup.org/meetings/1206/att/wrapatt.html
Highlights - Cloud
• Most institutions present are executing on a portfolio of cloud solutions with multiple solutions from SaaS to Paas to IaaS
• A few institutions are considering replicating critical infrastructure in the cloud, such as SSO, DNS, email routing – mainly to ensure continuous service
• No good general solutions for provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts and groups across cloud solutions; discussion of OAuth
• Progress on operationalizing cloud services, for example using Boomering and JMeter to monitor user experience
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LINKS:
ITANA wiki is https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/itana/Home
Google Docs Whiteboard for this call https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J-WZMKKZauiqeHnuQyzUFNcsMTDyjmz_f0FvtiJJ6A4/edit#
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