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Improving your Enterprise Architecture |
A
3-day workshop: next running
starts evening of 26 Feb 07. |
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Objectives |
Topics |
Facilitators and speakers |
Booking details |
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Time to get real about
enterprise architecture! In this uniquely interactive event you
consider challenges faced by CIO/IS/IT teams, then enjoy working with
others on ways to make your own enterprise architecture more robust and
effective. Presentations are integrated with working sessions in which
you address the issues and challenges of your customer or organisation.
This event complements and supplements training for the
ISEB Certificate in IT Architecture. |
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For |
CIO/IS/IT teams in public and
private sectors. Enterprise Architects and other senior IS/IT
professionals who want to verify or improve the IS/IT strategies and
architectures of an enterprise, within a recognised framework.
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Your goals |
Review the decisions and
trade offs you have to make in moving information systems forward.
Review, verify or improve
your enterprise architecture in response to given issues and challenges.
Compare priorities and
experiences, exchange knowledge with others and develop relationships.
Address the challenges that
people face in using a standard framework and refine your use of
architecture principles, patterns and technologies.
Explore ideas and debate
issues with fellow participants in a confidential and congenial
environment. |
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Experience required |
Delegates usually have
between 12 and 30 years in IS/IT-related work. Awareness of a standard
architecture framework is helpful but not essential.
IT capacity planning and
infrastructure experience is welcome, but the event is not |
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Topics |
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Frameworks
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Enterprise Architecture
Frameworks and development methods including TOGAF (The Open Group), SAM
(NCC), the Zachman Framework etc. |
Hot topics: behind the
hype |
Four topics selected by
attendees from:
Probable: data sharing,
process sharing, identity management, SOA.
Possible: metrics,
agile management, MDA |
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Aligning business and
IS/IT |
Business SOA. Enterprise
frustrations. Engaging the business through goals & performance
measurement. Your own enterprise vision: people, power and
responsibility. Your CIO priorities. Enterprise application portfolio
assessment. |
EA models and principles |
Experiences of using the
Jarvis/Crompton architecture meta model.
Selection from TOGAF and
other architecture principles. |
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Opportunities & solutions |
Buy or build or both? |
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Experiences and case
studies |
"Real"
exercise: long-term business v short-term infrastructure;
baseline and interim target; strategic target; reality. The supplier's
story of a public sector organisation. |
Architecture definition
issues |
Scale and its implications
for architecture models. Generic shared components and standards.
Enterprise data architecture today. Trouble with business process
models. Smoothing handovers. Architectural pain killers. |
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Governance |
Drivers, events, mind
focusers. Who spans vision-to-engineering gaps? |
Migration planning |
Principles of modelling an
enterprise transformation. Migration paths and programme plans. |
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Facilitators and speakers |
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They inspire and steer
debate; they encourage peers to share views, experiences and solutions.
The usual facilitators are
listed below. Other speakers may join the event. |
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Graham Berrisford
(leader & facilitator) |
Graham has for many years
brought together senior IT professionals to ensure they approach their
work in a joined-up and professional way; his achievements include
leading a 15 day training programme for architects. |
Gregg O'Reilly
(case study) |
CIO, Home Affairs Business
Unit of a major IT services supplier. Formerly, Technical Director
leading an architect team in a Home Office division and a Technical Risk
Manager for a Systems Integrator. |
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Richard Anderson
(objectives & measurement) |
Developed the objectives and
performance management system of BP Chemicals to match its increasing
scale and complexity, absorbing lessons, especially from the balanced
scorecard, over 15 years. |
Allister Crompton
(public sector) |
CTO of major public sector
organisation. Developed a Meta Model for EA to capture his wide
experience. A leading light in migration modelling. |
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Bob Jarvis
(EA techniques) |
Bob has been developing and
teaching EA techniques for 21 years. The NCC have published a booklet
outlining Bob's techniques. |
Arthur Haynes
(data architecture) |
Arthur is a leading member of
the BCS Data Management Specialist Group, with long experience in
enterprise data architecture. |
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Location |
Chartridge Conference Centre,
Chesham, Bucks. |
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Accommodation |
The need for evening work and
networking means that full board and accommodation at the venue is
included in the fee. |
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Timings |
Start:
Monday evening 8 pm. (An evening session with buffet supper ensures
everybody is relaxed, fresh and ready for the next morning.). Breakfast
from 8 for a start at 9 am. Work/discussion may continue into early
evening. Dinner at 8.15 pm. End: Thursday 5 pm at latest. |
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Number |
Minimum 8, maximum 14
delegates. |
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Bring |
Joining instructions sent to
you before the event will ask you to bring answers to questions provided
in advance, a memory stick and (ideally) a lap top. You may bring 5 to
15 slides on a topic of your choice. |
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Prices |
Event fee
= �1,295 + full board & accommodation + VAT.
Total =
�1,545 + VAT. |
Payment |
Event and accommodation fees,
listed separately on the invoice, are payable by one cheque for a single
amount before the event starts. Cancellation charges apply.
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Registration Request |
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Systems Advisers Ltd., Edinburgh EH16 5PY, Scotland
Tel: +44 (0131) 662 4212 |
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