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1.  Roll Call (by timezone - East to West)
2.  Scribe Shout-out - It's easy to scribe: How To Scribe Itana Notes
3.  Agenda Bash
4.  Practice of Architecture - How has it changed?  New Year's Resolutions? - Jim, Piet, all
5.  Itana Org Updates
1.  Working Group Updates
2. Steering Committee Update

Materials

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y2zkNW6F8XMyriKlf7omMftEYqpt-X7YIMRjt1IjR78/

Attendees

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How has EA Changed?

CEB perspective – 

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• As IT has grown over the past few decades, different organizations have had different success in terms of ensuring the integration and alignment of IT
• Higher Ed has seen fragmentation of both IT and business units.
• Higher Ed often doesn't have a very unified mission
• Architects do "across" work to provide organizational "glue" and attempt to reverse the fragmentation.
• This work is time consuming and iterative and hard to cost justify, but is very mission critical.
• Ray: In any organization of sufficient size, there is a rift between business and IT. Does EA have the charter to mend the rift between business and IT?
• Louis: It's not clear that business is fragmented vs compartmentalized? Is it accidental or intentional?
• Piet: It's both.
• Louis: Senior biz leaders often don't look outside of own domains. There is a disconnect between compartmentalized biz and fragmented IT.

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• Betsy: Approach of incremental inroads is not effective. Perhaps reaching out and finding burning issues is a better way to provide value.
• Ashish: New EA team at UCSD – this is helpful information.

Chat Dialog

Jim Phelps: https://goo.gl/forms/TmGikmdDPp83ITcj2

Jim Phelps: Use the form above to suggest Itana Topics

Daniel Black (Miami of Ohio): To be clear, I won't be on the whole call so me scribing isn't a great solution. :)

Piet Niederhausen (UWash): If you have trouble seeing the slides in Adobe Connect, they are also online here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y2zkNW6F8XMyriKlf7omMftEYqpt-X7YIMRjt1IjR78/

Louis King (Yale University): Thanks Piet

Daniel Black (Miami of Ohio): Thanks. Dropping off the web meeting but I'll be listening on the call.

Dan Kiskis (Michigan): EA is mentioned in the Scaled Agile Framework: http://www.scaledagileframework.com/

Dana Miller-Miami University-Ohio: My resolution is to keep on validating, through client engagement, the capability and service model developed so far. The goal is to develop a common language with the business.

Louis King (Yale University): I am really trying to figure out what our next steps should be. I am inclined to continue to build out the network of architects but having trouble penetrating the business leaders network.

J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin): Wisconsin is close to starting an EA Community of Practice in line with the federated EA concept.

J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin): Meaning we are about to roll it out.

Announcements - Itana News, Working Group Report out