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Agenda:
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Attendees:
Chris Eagle
U of Michigan, Enterprise Architect
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1.5 years in EA.
In Retail IT =
management before then
Brenda Reeb -
U o=
f Rochester, Information Architect, reports to the Enterprise Architect
9 months in architecture. F=
ormerly a librarian with the university.
Working on a university data dictionary (to be a =E2=80=98shoppi=
ng list=E2=80=99)
EA has focus=
ed on technical standards - storage, network, and cloud.
Bruce Alexander
M=
ichigan State, Dir. of EA
6 mo=
nths in architecture. Previously Dir of Enterprise Business Applications
EA in place to prevent =E2=80=98=
re-siloing=E2=80=99 of systems
Caleb Racey
Newca=
stle (UK)
Comes from technical=
architecture, and development management before that.
Have a large initiative to combine IT systems
Vinay Varughese
Cornell Medical College
Infrastructu=
re and Operations for 15 years
Starting in technical Arch but planning on all aspects
Wayde Nie (and Laura)
McMaster University
Movin=
g from Technology Arch to Enterprise Arch
Looking to network with other people.
Colleen Nagy
Case=
Western Reserve
Sr. Director =
for Strategic Initiatives and Policy, and Portfolio ManagementReorganized to Plan/Build/Run 18 months ag=
o. In her role since then.
Kasia Azzara
Colu=
mbia
Enterprise Architect, for=
1 year.
Just getting EA under=
way since IT was busy with a large ERP implementation
Came from outside HE (Pharmaceutical company)
Russell Connacher
Berkeley
in EA for 9 months.<=
br>Been in U/C IT for 20 years
Using TOGAF as a method to give structu=
re to EA
Discussion Notes
Major differences between technical and enterprise arch?
Russ: People get technical standards but don=E2=80=99t get business-level =
planning
Q: how do you get support
R: =E2=80=9Chiding=E2=80=9D EA within a SOA implementation
Wayde: Tie EA to a large project? McMaster is doing Peoplesoft
Kasia: Was able to get some thought into an ERP, but someone limited becau=
se project was already underway.
Brenda: implementing Workday, and this may be a sweet spot for EA. &=
nbsp;And have a Student System in the wings as well.
Bruce: large projects underway =E2=80=98warp out=E2=80=99 planning activit=
ies in favor of getting the project installed.
VInay: hitching EA ramp-up onto an ERP project will be problematic, and EA=
is an afterthought. At Cornell they=E2=80=99ve had them think about =
the concepts without actually calling it EA.
Chris: Michigan was able to bake EA into a major IT restructuring.
Brenda: Interesting in what =E2=80=9Chealthy=E2=80=9D looks like. Wh=
at makes a good external champion and what are the good projects to bring E=
A up on.
Q: Who is Rochester=E2=80=99s champion. A: Not sure they have an ext=
ernal EA champion.
Q: does it help to get connected to a project if you start at the early pl=
anning? A: (Bruce) works better for technology than business architecture.<=
br>
Russ: EA can ride on Governance. (half of the universities are bring=
ing up Governance along with EA). Russ: Berkeley has an =E2=80=9Churr=
y up=E2=80=9D mentality.
Chris: Michigan Governance has had a lack of ownership by the committees.<=
br>
Q: why? A: Because it changes how people work together.
Colleen: Lack of funding has been an issue with getting governance in plac=
e: Q: you would think that lack of funding would drive governance.
Caleb: Is governance a pre-req for EA? Brenda: Have made progress through =
PMO process and gates, not necessarily governance. Chris: same at Mic=
higan
Wayde: Are there other good insertion points? (Change control board?) A: I=
nitial planning. Getting data (with limited success, since the projec=
t is already underway). At project failure.
Tools? Brenda: How to you make the work concrete? Where they go to f=
ind your stuff?
TOGAF? A couple of U=E2=80=99s using, but just getting started
Wayde: looking at Enterprise Architect by Spark Systems
Russ: Using Archimate to diagram. Using Archy as well for finding relation=
ships between data and processes.